or may be kleptomania, a compulsion to steal without any economic motives...?
what do we call this way of representing several words by just one word.
2007-02-15 06:51:51 · 5 answers · asked by Guess Who? 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
economy of language
2007-02-15 06:54:46 · answer #1 · answered by jurydoc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
heteronym (HET er e nim) noun, One of two or more words with identical spelling, but different meanings and pronunciations.
It should now be clear that those two lists are different. Which word is which is impossible to tell out of context, though. Crossword puzzle fillers come across these all the time and they can be misleading if you think the clue is one word when it's the other.
On top of this, a few in the list are homonyms, words spelled differently but pronounced the same. For instance, roe and row; tier and tear; or so, sew, and sow. Then there's beau and bow, as well as bough and bow
2007-02-15 07:00:49 · answer #2 · answered by Gemma G 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hey, it is like any other word in the dictionary. Meanings of every word is expressed in many simpler words for easier understanding. That is it!!! Artefact means man made object, by the same logic arachnophobia means fear of spider. There is no other way it is called, it is simply called the Dictionary Meaning, according to me
2007-02-15 07:20:35 · answer #3 · answered by surnell 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think you've gotten it backwards. the word arachnophobia is defined as being a fear of spiders. you are giving definitions of these words. why use several words when one will do?
2007-02-15 08:13:26 · answer #4 · answered by wendy_da_goodlil_witch 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it's a Homophone/Homonym. (they mean the same thing)
2007-02-15 06:55:59 · answer #5 · answered by Armchair_Ninja 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋