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Homographs is an English word. Below you'll find 5 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Homographs in a sentence

Homographs meaning

plural of homograph

Using Homographs

  • The main meaning on this page is: plural of homograph
  • In the example corpus, homographs often appears in combinations such as: homographs and.

Context around Homographs

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25 words
  • Position in the sentence: 1 start, 0 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

disambiguating 1× distinguish 1× few 1×

Sentence patterns with Homographs

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

a few homographs 1× are both homographs and homophones 1× however some homographs 多音字 main 1× in disambiguating homographs 1× study distinguish homographs and determine 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

homonymic puns another 1× however some homographs 1× recently tts systems 1× the findings suggest 1×

Common sentence endings:

a few homographs 1× homographs and homophones 1× in disambiguating homographs 1× japanese as well 1× rarely used characters 1×

Words around Homographs

Just before it in the word index:

homogeny 2 homogentisate 2 homogenous 42 homogenizing 4 homogenizes 4 homogenized 12

Just after it in the word index:

homoios 3 homoj 2 homoki 2 homolka 3 homolog 8 homologated 6

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaas 8 aacc 8 aacs 8 aafes 8 aankh 8 aapp 8

Corpus analysis for Homographs

  • In this selection, "homographs" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, disambiguating, distinguish and few stand out and add context to how "homographs" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a few homographs and are both homographs and homophones. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "homographs" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with homographs

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

They can also function as a way to distinguish a few homographs. (12 words)

Homonymic puns, another common type, arise from the exploitation of words which are both homographs and homophones. (17 words)

Recently TTS systems have begun to use HMMs (discussed above) to generate " parts of speech " to aid in disambiguating homographs. (20 words)

Longer example sentences

However, some homographs ( 多音字 main Zh) such as 行 main ( háng main or xíng main) (Japanese: an, gō, gyō) have more than one reading in Chinese representing different meanings, which is reflected in the carryover to Japanese as well. (39 words)

The findings suggest that non-hyperlexic readers rely more heavily on word semantics in order to make inferences about word meaning. citation citation In the Cantonese study, distinguish homographs and determine the readings for rarely used characters. (37 words)

Recently TTS systems have begun to use HMMs (discussed above) to generate " parts of speech " to aid in disambiguating homographs. (20 words)

Example sentences (5)

Homonymic puns, another common type, arise from the exploitation of words which are both homographs and homophones.

However, some homographs ( 多音字 main Zh) such as 行 main ( háng main or xíng main) (Japanese: an, gō, gyō) have more than one reading in Chinese representing different meanings, which is reflected in the carryover to Japanese as well.

Recently TTS systems have begun to use HMMs (discussed above) to generate " parts of speech " to aid in disambiguating homographs.

The findings suggest that non-hyperlexic readers rely more heavily on word semantics in order to make inferences about word meaning. citation citation In the Cantonese study, distinguish homographs and determine the readings for rarely used characters.

They can also function as a way to distinguish a few homographs.

Common combinations with homographs

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "homographs" in a sentence?
An example: "Homonymic puns, another common type, arise from the exploitation of words which are both homographs and homophones." This page contains 5 example sentences with the word "homographs" from authentic English texts.
What does "homographs" mean?
Homographs means: plural of homograph
How many example sentences with "homographs" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 5 example sentences with "homographs", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.