Translation for '
homophone' from English to Russian
NOUN | a homophone | homophones | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- The film tells the tragic story of two recent college graduates, Tao Jianping ("Tao" is a homophone for peach), and Li Lilian ("Li" is a homophone for plum).
- The player that created the sentence then tells the other players which pair of identical words, in this case "chicken", has replaced the homophone pair.
- This is where George Lucas filmed part of "Star Wars", and a homophone of the city was chosen to be the home planet of the protagonist's family (Tatooine).
- As a professional actor he adopted Teale – a homophone of his birth surname, Thiele – as a stage name.
- Shenzhen's KK100 building used to be known as the Kingkey (a near homophone of "kinky") 100 and Kingkey Finance Tower.
- The novel takes place in 'Bouville' (homophone of "Boue-ville", literally, 'Mud town') a town similar to Le Havre. and by Robert Baldick as "Nausea".
- Where the spoken form of an eggcorn sounds the same as the original, it becomes a type of homophone.
- Each rhyme group was subdivided into homophone groups ("xiǎoyùn" 小韻 "small rhyme").
- For instance, Perrenland was named after Jeff Perren, who co-wrote the rules for "Chainmail" with Gygax; Urnst was a homophone of Ernst (his son Ernie); and Sunndi was a near-homophone of Cindy, another of Gygax's children.
- "Evo" means "evolution", and "Nine" is a homophone of [...] ("Nai"), a Thai title for men similar to mister.
- Each rhyme group was subdivided into homophone groups preceded by a small circle called a 紐 [...] ('button').
- is an exact homophone of [...] ("pay raise") in Mandarin Chinese, and is a near-homophone in Cantonese language (ga1yan1/ga1san1).
- Pseudo-homophones are pseudowords that are phonetically identical to a word.
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