1. bill : a) a person's name
b) another word for a bird's beak
c) request for payment, gas bill, electric bill, doctor's bills etc.
2. play a) Children play at the park.
b) She got a part in the school play.
3. book a) Did you read that book?
b) I need to book a flight to California.
4. sheets a) sheets of paper
b) bed sheets
5. kid a) a child
b) to joke around
c) a young goat
6. bug a) an insect b) to bother c) to bug someone's office
7. show a) Show me how to throw a fast ball.
b) Did you watch that TV show?
8. plant a) That's a beautiful green plant on your porch.
b) Let's plant a garden next spring.
c) He worked in a manufacturing plant.
9. fly a) an insect
b) Birds fly south for the winter.
c) The toddler forgot to zip up the fly in his pants.
10. roll a) a dinnr roll, bread
b) to roll down a hill or to roll the dice
Similar sounding words but with different meaning - example: Desert and Dessert
The word "Innuendo" is commonly used... There's also the word "Insinuation" or "Allusion"
Straunghne
Farewell
The adjectives.
Words with the same meaning are synonyms. Words with opposite meanings are antonyms. Homonyms are words that are spelled the same but have different meanings. Homophones are words that sound alike, but have different meanings. synonyms
One example is the word "present," which can be a noun meaning a gift or a verb meaning to show. Another example is "record," which can be a noun referring to a document or a verb referring to the act of preserving information.
It is called synonymy when different words have the same meaning.
homograph
Homographs
they are homophones
Some examples of words that have the same spelling but different meanings are "bat," which can refer to a flying mammal or a piece of sports equipment, and "bow," which can mean either a type of knot or a gesture of respect.
Some examples are "sea" and "see," "right" and "write," "ate" and "eight," and "flower" and "flour." These are known as homophones.
You might mean homonyms. Homonyms are different words that sound the same but have different meaning. Examples are: two and too, bite and bight, ball and bawl.
A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two unlike things by stating that one thing is another. It is used to create a vivid image or convey a deeper meaning by drawing a connection between the two things.
The core or foundation of a word's meaning is its root. A word's root typically carries the fundamental meaning of the word and can often be traced back to its original language. Understanding a word's root can help in deciphering its meaning and connecting it to related words.
Words such as "minute" that are spelled the same but have different meanings and pronunciations are called homographs.