marshlander Wrote:A homonym? No doubt Albert will advise if I've got it wrong!
You are right but there also exist homophones (pronounced the same but with two different meanings), but here we're just dealing with the
same word belonging to three grammatical categories, with the stress differently placed as well (noun, adjective or verb) so I doubt that we'd talk of homophones.
homonym noun a word with the same sound and spelling as another, but with a different meaning, eg kind (helpful) and kind (sort).
[17c: from Greek onoma name.]
homophone noun, linguistics
1 a word which sounds the same as another word but is different in spelling and/or meaning, eg bear and bare.
2 a character or characters that represent the same sound as another, eg f and ph.
[17c.]
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suspect
verb /se'
spekt/ (suspected, suspecting)
1 to consider or believe likely.
2 to think (a particular person) possibly or probably guilty of a crime or other wrongdoing.
3 to doubt the truth or genuineness of someone or something.
noun /'
sus-pekt/ someone who is suspected of committing a crime, etc.
adj /'s
uspekt/ thought to be possibly false, untrue or dangerous; dubious o His excuse sounds pretty suspect to me.
suspect someone of something to believe they probably did it o He suspected her of having an affair.
[14c: from Latin suspicere, suspectum to look up to or admire.]
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