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- What is it called when a phrase means something different?
- When two phrases mean the same thing?
- What words have 2 different meanings?
What is it called when a phrase means something different?
An idiom is an expression that conveys something different from its literal meaning, and that cannot be guessed from the meanings of its individual words.
When two phrases mean the same thing?
A synonym is a word or phrase with a meaning that is the same as, or very similar to, another word or phrase. Terrible and awful are synonyms because they have the same meaning. Can you do better today than you did on yesterday's exercise?
What words have 2 different meanings?
A homonym is a word that is said or spelled the same way as another word but has a different meaning. "Write” and “right” is a good example of a pair of homonyms.
