Please don't leave me in this hot and sandy dessert. (homographs)
What is homograph?
A homograph is a word that stocks the identical written form as another word but has a exceptional which means.
However, some dictionaries insist that the words ought to additionally be stated in a different way, at the same time as the Oxford English Dictionary says that the words should also be of "special starting place".
In this vein, The Oxford guide to realistic Lexicography lists various varieties of homographs, along with the ones wherein the phrases are discriminated through being in a distinctive phrase class, which includes hit, the verb to strike, and hit, the noun a blow.
When spoken, the meanings may be distinguished by different pronunciations, the words are also heteronyms.
Words with the same writing and pronunciation (i.e. are both homographs and homophones) are considered homonyms. However, in a looser sense the term "homonym" may be applied to words with the same writing or pronunciation.
Homograph disambiguation is critically important in speech synthesis, natural language processing and other fields.
