Re: homonym, homophone, homograph

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From: J Scott Peter
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 09:48

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In article <1992Jul23.211228.29092@news.columbia.edu> gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener) writes:
>I usually regard homonyms to be words such as "pool" or "bridge" which
>are spelled and pronounced identically but have completely unrelated
>meanings.  
>
>The ones that I love are homonyms whose meanings are antonymic, such as
>cleave and sanction.  Can anyone think of any others?

`Sanction' reminds me of `citation', which has at least 3 meanings: a
positive, a negative, and a neutral.
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