homographs - A homograph is a word that is spelt the same, but has a different meaning. From Wordnik.com. [Site Home] Reference
A heteronym is a homograph with differing meaning and pronunciation. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Do “We Need a Good, Violent Movie About Salamis”?] Reference
The phrase 'body of Christ' is a homograph: it has two distinct meanings. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus Christi Roundup] Reference
Interesting that the homograph and heteronym pages missed a few, like Nice/nice. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Do “We Need a Good, Violent Movie About Salamis”?] Reference
Technically a homonym is both a homophone (different words that sound the same) and a homograph (different words that are spelled the same). From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » In What Culture is Having a Shoe Thrown At You a Sign of Respect?] Reference
Neither's completely perfect for instance a homograph doesn't imply that the pronunciation is different and the heteronym doesn't imply that the meaning need be different. From Wordnik.com. [Homographs and Heteronyms] Reference
Interestingly, in appears that in the scientific literature "homophone" and "homograph" mean the same thing, which explains why there are so many papers about mispronouncing homophones. From Wordnik.com. [Why do so many homophones have two pronunciations?] Reference
She's German but the homograph was entirely deliberate. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
The current state of IDN homograph spoofing in 2009 - you do. From Wordnik.com. [SecuObs.com] Reference
The current state of IDN homograph spoofing in 2009 - you don't need a. From Wordnik.com. [SecuObs.com] Reference
The health city in Hyderabad will also have a laboratory to preserve homograph heart valve for replacements in patients. From Wordnik.com. [RxPG News : Latest Medical, Healthcare and Research News] Reference
In the sentence "He wound the bandage around the wound" it is impossible to say either homograph correctly until after the meaning has been accessed. From Wordnik.com. [The Border Mail] Reference
My guess is that all ten of them will know homonym, fewer than half will be familiar with homograph, and possibly one or two may recognize heteronym. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3] Reference
Carl Withey Elbridge, New York Donald Drury Long Beach, California A Harvest of Heteronyms Try these out on the first ten people you meet: (1) homonym, (2) homograph, (3) heteronym. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3] Reference
For the record … Two types of homonyms: 1) homophones. 2) homograph. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » In What Culture is Having a Shoe Thrown At You a Sign of Respect?] Reference
CVE): The International Domain Name (IDN) support in Epiphany allows remote attackers to spoof domain names using punycode encoded domain names that are decoded in URLs and SSL certificates in a way that uses homograph characters from other character sets, which facilitates phishing attacks. From Wordnik.com. [Latest OSVDB Vulnerabilities] Reference
CVE): The International Domain Name (IDN) support in Omniweb 5 allows remote attackers to spoof domain names using punycode encoded domain names that are decoded in URLs and SSL certificates in a way that uses homograph characters from other character sets, which facilitates phishing attacks. From Wordnik.com. [Latest OSVDB Vulnerabilities] Reference
CVE): The International Domain Name (IDN) support in Opera 7.54 allows remote attackers to spoof domain names using punycode encoded domain names that are decoded in URLs and SSL certificates in a way that uses homograph characters from other character sets, which facilitates phishing attacks. From Wordnik.com. [Latest OSVDB Vulnerabilities] Reference
CVE): The International Domain Name (IDN) support in Safari 1.2.5 allows remote attackers to spoof domain names using punycode encoded domain names that are decoded in URLs and SSL certificates in a way that uses homograph characters from other character sets, which facilitates phishing attacks. From Wordnik.com. [Latest OSVDB Vulnerabilities] Reference
CVE): The International Domain Name (IDN) support in Konqueror 3.2.1 on KDE 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to spoof domain names using punycode encoded domain names that are decoded in URLs and SSL certificates in a way that uses homograph characters from other character sets, which facilitates phishing attacks. From Wordnik.com. [Latest OSVDB Vulnerabilities] Reference
I eschew the term homonym because it suffers from an inherent ambiguity: a homograph is, to lexicographers, at least, a word that is spelled the same as another but has a different etymology (bear 1 ` animal '/bear 2 ` carry'; bore 1 ` carried '/bore 2 ` drill' /bore 3 ` tire '/bore 4 ` tide wave'); a homophone is a word that sounds exactly like another but is spelled differently. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3] Reference
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