Used in a Sentence

homophonic

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for homophonic.

Editorial note

If a language is homophonic to hangul than of course it can be used for that, but the same is true of latin or most anything else.

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Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

(linguistics) Having the same sound; being homophones.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of homophonic gathered in one view.

adjective

(linguistics) Having the same sound; being homophones.

adjective

(music) Having a single, accompanied, melodic line.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for homophonic.

adjective

(linguistics) Having the same sound; being homophones.

adjective

(music) Having a single, accompanied, melodic line.

Example sentences

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If a language is homophonic to hangul than of course it can be used for that, but the same is true of latin or most anything else.

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My long-haired male traveling companion got homophonic slurs yelled at him in the street twice in four days.

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More power to you my friend, your situation is very common, and the result of a highly homophonic society.

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A private business is well within their rights to fire you if you’re posting racist or homophonic slurs online.

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Tangent ahead: even good pop songs require melodies that are more than just homophonic.

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I believe I've identified the cipher as a positional homophonic substitution encoding bilingual Latin-Occitan pharmaceutical text.

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Cryptographic constraints: Must strictly match the homophonic repetition pattern of the ciphertext.

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They get away with it by euphemistically shaping a homophonic-oppositional language we conflate with our own.

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Most homophonic spelling errors seem fixable using automated lexical context analysis.

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However, if you want profane homophonic puns or pithy four-word idioms...

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Seems easy enough to get around with homophonic substitution, though.

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The problem with Chinese writing is that each code point corresponds to a different glyph and there are many homophonic words (with different meanings and corresponding glyphs).

Quote examples

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Or "est" (he is) and "est" (the East) although English also has plenty of such "non-homophonic homographs"...

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(If we defined "phonetic" to have that meaning then Chinese is actually very phonetic!) The converse is not the case: Chinese is very homophonic so there are a lot of syllable (sounds) that have many different meanings and hence characters associated with them.

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(the seventh of a chord falls, the sixth rises - one can also view the IV7 chord in blues music that moves to the I to be a IV+6) The fundamental tetrad concept introduces the idea of "homophonic chords" - for example, a major sixth chord and a minor seventh chord have the exact same pattern, and the designation depends on context.

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From the article: > Or maybe—and this is the theory I like best, but can least substantiate—“No, totally” is really a contraction of “I know, totally.” That is linguistically improbable; I know of no instance in the English language where a homophonic slippage of this sort has taken place.

Proper noun examples

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Homophonic alternative spellings appear to be in vogue.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use homophonic in a sentence?

If a language is homophonic to hangul than of course it can be used for that, but the same is true of latin or most anything else.

What does homophonic mean?

(linguistics) Having the same sound; being homophones.

What part of speech is homophonic?

homophonic is commonly used as adjective.