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In everyday language, the disambiguation is the relationship between homonyms, that is to say between words in a language that have the same oral or written form but different meanings. The disambiguation is a special case of ambiguity , this sense (case of polysemy ).

While having different meanings, homonyms can:

written in the same manner and to rule differently (they are homographs), for example:
"Hens convent convent;
decide the same way and written differently (they are homophones), for example:
"The cat meows / the eye of the needle / the Shah of Iran;
rule and written in the same way (they are both homographs and homophones), for example:
"A minor working in a mine / a pencil / minor has attempted to break into a bar."

In linguistics, we describe the disambiguation as the relationship between different linguistic forms with the same meaning , graphics or sound, and served entirely different. This sense generalizes the usual notion of homonymy in forms that are not words, by such phrases . ^{Classes of homonyms}

Two linguistic forms that have the same phonetic form and meaning are called different homophones , homophones are homonyms. Since the pronunciation varies within the linguistic field, two forms of homophones for a given set of speakers can no longer be homophones for other speakers.
Two linguistic forms that have the same graphical and different meanings are called homographs , homonyms homographs are. Some homographs contain capital letters with capital letters , such eponyms.
Two linguistic forms that are both homophones and homographs are often called true homonyms. One could argue that homonyms are truly "perfect" when they have the same lexical class and even grammatical gender.

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The polysemy is the property of a word that has several meanings, more generally, is owned by a signifier that refers to several meanings. The distinction between homonymy and polysemy is thus the distinction between meaning and linguistic form. In disambiguation, we are dealing with signifiers of identical shape but different: the difference appears in the etymologies , the convergence of forms is the result of the evolution of language : on the contrary, polysemy comes from an element and a single etymology has several meanings. The reader interested in the subtleties of this distinction may be made to Article word.
The homonymy and polysemy are special cases of ambiguity.
The paronymy is the relationship between two linguistic forms, oral or written, which are similar but different. So a kind of disambiguation imperfect.

Examples in French

Homophony

Meter , and to master (setting is not a homophone of the other two in Quebec )
has and to
Sot , jump , seal and bucket
to , worms , glass , green and vair
Wed , mother and mayor
blood , one hundred , without , feels
St. , within and surrounded
crash , krak , crack and crack
Crash is a homophone of a faulty pronunciation but current crash.
yes and Huy are homophones in Belgian French.
it and its

Homophones are more naturally prone to be confused as their meaning is similar:

premises and beginnings
elevates and fulfill ("If you dream of greatness, heightens yourself and you will be granted.")
martyr and martyrdom
satire and satire can be combined, but not satire and it pulls.
can be somewhat confusing and may, but is unlikely.

Homography

Two words are homographs when they are spelled the same way. They may have the same pronunciation (be homophones ) or not:

The wind is the is.
You have three have in your game card.
The hens of the sisters of the convent convent.
We wore servings of pie.
We had airplanes.
I saw wood screws.
There are no footprints in the sand.
You drink in the Bois de Vincennes.
They should invite their friends.
He washed Waterjet his private jet.

Disambiguation perfect

A centipede poisonous wanders on a centipede very leafy.
The foam is eating chocolate mousse.
A pound of bread that book with a book of recipes.
Protide constituent of protium , is a homonym of proteins within the meaning of protein.
The mode is a way of life.
Going around a turn.
Filer train to train.

Terms based on the suffix -onymie
Acronym ( backronym recursive acronym ) Antonio autonymy eponymy Holonymie wiki ( Homophony Homography ) Hyperonymy hyponymy meronymy Metonymy Pantonymie paronymy retronym Synonymy Toponymy

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