[答疑解惑] 令人犯晕的三胞胎Homonyms, Homophones 和 Homographs

这几个词，呵呵， 像是三胞胎，总能见到，可是一直是分着见面，都没搞清楚，也没对上号。 今天将他们三个放在一起，看着还真有点犯晕。 怎么样，你能分的清谁是谁吗？咱们一个一个的来把他们分清楚哈。

	拼写	发音	意思	实例
homophones homonyms 同音字	不同	相同或相近	不同	blew/blue ate/eight
homographs 多音多意字	一样	不同 (有时也相同）	不同	take a bow bow on her head

原来这三胞胎，其实是双胞胎，homonyms有两个名字，一个是 homonyms，也经常被叫做Homophones。 在中文中，我们可以叫它“同音字（词）”。 当然，发音不一定是100%的一样，有一些十分相近的，也会被称作homonyms。
Allowed / Aloud
Bare / Bear
Bean / Been
Buy / By
Dear / Deer
Fair / Fare
Hair / Hare
Knot / Not
Meat / Meet
See / Sea
Sun / Son
To / Too / Two
Which / Witch

Homographs，则是拼写一模一样，看着就是一个词。 可是却有不同的发音和不同的意思的单词。 如果从构词法也可以看到， Homographs这个词中，homo是"one and the same"的意思，词根 graph 有“write, written, draw” 的意思。在中文中，我们是不是管这类词叫多音多意字（词）。

Examples of homographs with different sounds (heterophones):

agape: with mouth open / love
bass: type of fish / low deep voice
bow: type of knot or weapon / to incline
close : nearby / to shut
contract: a legal document / to become affected with
desert: to abandon / an arid desert
does: female deers / to do
dove: a bird / to plunge into water or an activity
entrance: the way in / to delight
lead: an insulated electrical conductor - to guide or direct/ an element
learned: past tense of learn / knowledgeable
live: to be alive / to broadcast at the time of production
minute: tiny / unit of time
moped: to gloomy / motorcyle
number: no feeling due to medication / numerical value
polish: to shine / somebody from Poland
produce - to make something / farm crops
project - to speak loudly / a task
read: present tense reading / past tense reading
record: a written account / to write down or make a music album
resume - start again / job history
row: an argument / propel a boat or a line of objects
sewer: drain / person who sews
sow : a female pig / to plant seed
tear: to rip up / a drop from the eye
wind: movement of air / to twist
wound - past tense of to wind / to injure

Examples of homographs with the same pronunciation (homophones):

bat: piece of sports equipment / an animal
book: something to read / to schedule an event
break: a short time away / to shatter/ not keep a promise
case: a legal case / a suitcase
chest: body part / furniture or treasure
down: a lower place / soft fluff on a bird
dress: the action of putting clothes on / to prepare animal meat
evening: smoothing out / after sunset
fine: of good quality / a money penalty
fish: to seek or hunt for / the sea animal
grace : religious state / to adorn or decorate
head: body part or leader / to go toward
hose : footwear / flexible water conduit
light: not heavy / opposite of dark
palm: tree / part of hand
pen: writing utensil / cage for animals
play: as in kids at a playground / a theater performance
rock: a stone rock / music / to move back and fourth
roll: a bun / to roll down a hillseal: to close / an animal
shop: a store / to look for items
star: to star in a movie / a star in the sky
store: to keep somewhere until needed / grocery store
suit : clothing / to fit in with
trail: a path / to follow
track: to follow / a track for a train or running track
train: to teach a dog / a choo-choo train
trip: to stumble / a journey
trunk : elephant part, tree stem, automobile storage area
uniform: as in all the same / special clothing as in a soldier's uniform
water: as in watering the plants / H2O
wave: move the hand in greeting / sea water coming into shore



该贴已经同步到 high5的微博