Homonyms are word/s that has the same sound, the same pronunciation and sometimes, has the same spelling but different meanings. Like bow. The words bow and bough are examples where there are two
meanings associated with a single pronunciation and spelling (the weapon
and the knot); two meanings with two different pronunciations (the knot
and the act of bending at the waist), and two distinct meanings sharing
the same sound but different spellings (bow, the act of bending at the waist, and bough,
the branch of a tree). In addition, it has several related but distinct
meanings – a bent line is sometimes called a 'bowed' line, reflecting
its similarity to the weapon. Even according to the most restrictive
definitions, various pairs of sounds and meanings of bow, Bow and bough are homonyms, homographs, homophones, heteronyms, heterographs, capitonyms and are polysemous.
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