Word For The Day, Thursday, December 8, 2005 - homonymous

dictionaries ad nauseum | December 8, 2005 | secret garden

[secret garden]

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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

homonymous • \hoe-MAH-nuh-mus\ adjective
1 : ambiguous
2 : having the same designation
3 : of, relating to, or being homonyms

Example sentence:
How many states, besides New York, have a homonymous city or town?

Etymology: The "ambiguous" sense of "homonymous" refers mainly to words that have two or more meanings. In the 1600s, logicians and scientists who wanted to refer to (or complain about!) such equivocal words chose a name for them based on Latin and Greek, from Greek "hom-" ("same") and "onyma" ("name"). In time, English speakers came up with another sense of "homonymous," referring to two things having the same name (Hawaii, the state, and Hawaii, the island, for example). Next came the use of "homonymous" to refer to homonyms, such as "see" and "sea." There's also a zoological sense. Sheep and goats whose right horn spirals to the right and left horn spirals to the left are said to be "homonymous."

Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.

The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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Review Threads:

Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate

WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!

[secret garden]

Better late than never!

[secret garden]

Good Morning Class. Welcome to School!

Here is my example with WFTD.

Being Episcopalian is not homonymous with embracing an alternate lifestyle.

[hobbes1]

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[hobbes1]

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[xsmommy]

heck, i had forgotten we were still in the old room!

[hobbes1]

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[secret garden]

Howdy tiger. You're first in line today.

[Fierce Allegiance]

Morning all!

[secret garden]

Good morning! Red ribbon for you. It's been a mad dash today. No snow but rain. My oldest is now a teenager.

[martin_fierro]

homonymous • \hoe-MAH-nuh-mus\ adjective
1 : ambiguous

Too easy.

GOOD MORNING!

[Fierce Allegiance]

homonymous - them's some good grits.

[secret garden]

Hey tre, you're officially on my ping list now! I'm off to the art room. Catch y'all in a bit!

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Freezing in Houston......... the end is near!

[secret garden]

I wondered who would be the first one to pick up on it. You didn't disappoint me, Marty! ;) Not that there's anything wrong with the WFTD...

[Fierce Allegiance]

Thanks! I hated being the deaf kid when the bell rang.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Dialog:

Homonymus,
unanimous,
anonymous
magnanimous,
preposterous!
cantankerous.
Eponymous.
No names!

[Gabz]

I thought we were going to have to out the icepick brigade, figuring you were frozen stiff somewhere on your running route :^)

[Robert A. Cook, PE]

A homo-anono-genesis?

Isn't that the Mankind's Unknown Bigger Big Bang?

[Slip18]

How dare you!

[Robert A. Cook, PE]

Dialog:

Don't talk back to preposterous unanimous anonymous Homonymus,
lest you catch their magnanimous cancankerous Eponymous.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

--lest you catch their magnanimous cancankerous Eponymous.--

mous
mouse
moose
doing the can-can.

[hobbes1]

Dick homonymous with God?

Voice Of God Revealed To Be Cheney On Intercom
WASHINGTON, DC—Telephone logs recorded by the National Security Agency and obtained by Congress as part of an ongoing investigation suggest that the vice president may have used the Oval Office intercom system to address President Bush at crucial moments, giving categorical directives in a voice the president believed to be that of God.

[NeoCaveman]

If Dick Cheney is God then who the heck is Karl Rove?

Rovesputin?

[NeoCaveman]

The moonbats are homonymous of the Democrat base, and they aren't pleased with Hirrary.

They are also homos.

[theDentist]

Hey, I have a CD by yEponymous! I'll have to dig that out again.

[Slip18]

Good morning!

[Slip18]

Yes, and I was getting info on Ringo Starr for Arghie!

[Slip18]

Big Pining, WY is -31. I can't even imagine it.

[xsmommy]

ringo starr used to be Mr. Conductor on the THomas the Tank Engine series. then George Carlin took over.

[Slip18]

LOL!

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

28 degrees in Houston - these people think it's a new ice age..... ;^)

[Argh]

I think I have sufficient Ringo information to meet my needs, thanks, Miss Slip.

[xsmommy]

carlin as conductor

[hobbes1]

St.Michael obviously.

[Slip18]

I loved Thomas the Train. I think I saw every video and my neph had the whole set. Played with them for hours. I think my favorite was James for some reason.

[TheGrimReaper]

Naaaaah....freezing in Houston is an annual event.
A foot of snow sitting on the ground, however, would surely be a signal....

[Slip18]

We were down to 23 degrees one night here in AZ. I could unblanket my plants, but I'm waiting for another week. We're 65 right now.

[TheGrimReaper]

How about Point Barrow, Alaska? (Where any exposed skin could lead to a quick death)

[Slip18]

You're welcome. LOL!

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I knew you would chime in.... lol

I actually turned the heater on last night - I felt horrible doing it but my son was complaining. I was fine with the air conditioner still set to come on.

[NeoCaveman]

Ha! If he was he'd have figured out a way to win Michigan against Mr. Earth in the Lurch Gore, and also PA.

[Slip18]

Really? How do you see or breathe? Or go potty?

[TheGrimReaper]

I had planned to go out this morning to conduct a little bit of business, but I did an about-face at the driveway and headed back inside.
Every appendage on my body shrunk...something I can ill afford.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

It takes a real man to admit that Grimmy.......

[TheGrimReaper]

Believe it or not, they do have indoor plumbing up there.
(It's a radar station for the USAF)

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Were you stationed there?

[TheGrimReaper]

Maybe, but it sure takes a wise man to know when to preserve his vitals. :-o

[TheGrimReaper]

No, but a good friend of mine was stuck there for almost a year with the USAF. Longest year of his life, he says.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

My Dad was in Greenland - the pictures look pretty chilly!

[secret garden]

It's like the six degrees of -us! A+