[3] In this vein, The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography lists various types of homographs, including those in which the words are discriminated by being in a different word class, such as hit, the verb to strike, and hit, the noun a strike.
However, in a broader 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.
where the words are homonyms, identical in spelling and pronunciation (/bɛər/), but different in meaning and grammatical function.
Modern study of Old Chinese has found patterns that suggest a system of affixes.