gauge and gage

from:		Joey Arnold <joeyarnoldvn@gmail.com>
to:		diecheng2@hotmail.com
date:		Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 3:53 PM
subject:		Gauge Gage
mailed-by:		gmail.com

Gauge Gage

01 Sunday/Q.Tan Binh/Dai Trinh

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Joey Arnold <joeyarnoldvn@gmail.com>	Apr 17
to diecheng2

gage¹ gāj/ thách đấu

gauge: gāj/ khí áp kế

Gage and Gauges are not homographs because they are not spelled the same.

Gage and Gauge are homophones if they sound the same while differing in their definitions, their meanings.

Gage and Gauge are not homonyms because they differ in spelling and in meaning.

A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning, and may differ in spelling. The words may be spelled the same, such as rose (flower) and rose (past tense of "rise"), or differently, such as carat, caret, and carrot, or to, two, and too. Homophones that are spelled the same are also both homographs and homonyms.^[1] Homophones that are spelled differently are also called heterographs. The term "homophone" may also apply to units longer or shorter than words, such as phrases, letters or groups of letters that are pronounced the same as another phrase, letter or group of letters.

The word derives from the Greek homo- (ὁμο-), "same", and phōnḗ (φωνή), "voice, utterance".

In linguistics, a homonym is, in the strict sense, one of a group of words that share spelling and pronunciation but may have different meanings.^[1] Thus homonyms are simultaneously homographs (words that share the same spelling, regardless of their pronunciation) and homophones (words that share the same pronunciation, regardless of their spelling). The state of being a homonym is called homonymy. Examples of homonyms are the pair stalk (part of a plant) and stalk (follow/harass a person) and the pair left (past tense of leave) and left (opposite of right). A distinction is sometimes made between "true" homonyms, which are unrelated in origin, such as skate (glide on ice) and skate (the fish), and polysemous homonyms, or polysemes, which have a shared origin, such asmouth (of a river) and mouth (of an animal).^[2][3]

In non-technical contexts, the term "homonym" may be used (somewhat confusingly) to refer to words that are either homographs or homophones.^[1] In this looser sense, the word row (propel with oars) and row (argument) are considered homonyms, as are the words read (peruse) and reed (waterside plant).

A homograph (from the Greek: ὁμός, homós, "same" and γράφω, gráphō, "write") is a word that shares the same written form as another word but has a different meaning. When spoken, the meanings may be distinguished by different pronunciations, in which case the words are also heteronyms. Words with the same writing and pronunciation (i.e. 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. Identically-written different senses of what is judged to be fundamentally the same word are called polysemes; for example, wood (substance) and wood (area covered with trees).

gage¹

gāj/

archaic

noun

1. 1.

   a valued object deposited as a guarantee of good faith.

verb

1. 1.

   offer (a thing or one's life) as a guarantee of good faith.

gauge

gāj/

noun

1. 1.

   an instrument or device for measuring the magnitude, amount, or contents of something, typically with a visual display of such information.

   synonyms:

   measuring device, measuring instrument, meter, measure; More
2. 2.

   the thickness, size, or capacity of something, esp. as a standard measure, in particular.

   synonyms:

   size, diameter, thickness, width, breadth; More

verb

1. 1.

   estimate or determine the magnitude, amount, or volume of.

   "astronomers can gauge the star's intrinsic brightness"

   synonyms:

   measure, calculate, compute, work out, determine, ascertain; More
2. 2.

   measure the dimensions of (an object) with a gauge.

   "when dry, the assemblies can be gauged exactly and planed to width"

   
   

   
   

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