homographs

“Bass” (the fish) and “bass” (the musical instrument) are homographs.

Matthew Yglesias » In What Culture is Having a Shoe Thrown At You a Sign of Respect? 2010

Some are homographs with entirely different significances, such as coin (‘neighborhood’ in French, a form of money in English), or chair (‘flesh’ in French, a place to sit in English).

French/english Translation: the Unusual History of the English Language « Articles « Literacy News 2009

There are actually a lot of interesting things going on with heteronyms and homographs that result in their existence.

Homographs and Heteronyms Jono 2005

A search for heteronyms or homographs will bring up a bunch of pages with big lists of them, and particular groups of them.

Homographs and Heteronyms Jono 2005

After receiving the excellent comment from Marc on homographs I shamelessly copied something cool he did on his blog.

Visited countries Jono 2005

Vocabulary control is accomplished by three principal methods: defining the scope, or meaning, of terms; using the equivalence relationship to link synonymous and narly synonymous terms; and distinguishing among homographs.

Archive 2005-04-10 David Bigwood 2005

First, compared to homophones, like 'bank' (the noun) and 'bank' (the verb) you may notice that a lot of homographs are di- or tri-syllabic and homophones monosyllabic.

Homographs and Heteronyms Jono 2005

Vocabulary control is accomplished by three principal methods: defining the scope, or meaning, of terms; using the equivalence relationship to link synonymous and narly synonymous terms; and distinguishing among homographs.

Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies David Bigwood 2005

It contains lists of minimal pairs, homophones, homographs, and much else, including a frequency count of the days of the week It seems that we talk about days of the week more than we write about them, and that we are more interested in the weekend than in weekdays, with Saturday, Sunday and Friday filling the top three places both in speech and in writing.

languagehat.com: A LANGUAGE MUSEUM. 2004

When it comes down to it, we know what it says and means… English has homophones and homographs, and we deal with it OK.

Jews For John | Jewschool 2004