The three words I want to explore are tinker, curate, and multiple meaning word.
Tinker – Verb –
To repair adjust or experiment
When I
was little, I liked to tinker with Tinker Toys.
Curate – Verb
- to
pull together, sift through, and select for presentation, as music or Web site content
Note that this word has
several meanings, but the one I’m most interested in is #4 on this dictionary reference.
I hope the
information and topics that I curate on this blog are interesting to my
students and to the general public.
Multiple Meaning
Word – Noun/ Part of Speech
According to our text,
a multiple-meaning word is, “words that mean more than one thing.” (153). Unfortunately,
our book does not into detail with the information we really need about
multiple meaning words (MMW). MMW is a general terms for any words that are
spelled and/or sound the same but have different meanings.
Forms of MMW are:
Homonym: Words that share the SAME SOUND and
SAME SPELLING but have different meanings
Examples: tongue &
tongue ::: wave & wave ::: duck & duck
Here’s the kicker: ALL HOMONYMS ARE HOMOPHONES!
Homophone:
A Homograph is a word
that may be spelled the SAME, sounds the SAME, but has a different
meaning.
Examples: won & one ::: their & there
::: too, to, two
Homograph:
Words that MAY or MAY
NOT sound alike, have the SAME spellings, but different meanings.
Examples: read & read ::: lead & Lead
My
students created A to Z Taxonomies of multiple meaning words yesterday.
I like These words because they are useful for us, if we are writing an essay or a paper.
ReplyDeleteI really like the words that are in purple because if we are writing a poem it will help us a LOT.
ReplyDeleteWhen I little I liked to curate the tinker toys too. I learned three new multiple meaning words today: Homonym, Homophone and Homograph.
ReplyDeleteThe 3 forms of the multiple meaning word was interesting, and I would like to use this new word, curate from now.
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