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ENGLISH | homophones

Then, last blog entry was about homographes... this one is about homophones... well.. just enjoy. Personally I think homophones are kinda more difficult to understand when speaking.

A homophone is a word that has the same sound as another but has a different spelling, origin and meaning.

by  |  next to
buy  |  purchase

fair  |  not showing favor to either person, side, and so on.
fare  |  money charged for a journey by bus, ship, taxi, and so on.

sea  |  a large body of salt water
see  |  to perceive through the eye

beet  |  plant
beat  |  to strike repeatedly

dye  |  color by dipping in a liquid
die  |  come to the end of life =/

piece  |  part of a solid
peace  |  state of freedom from war =D

to  |  in the direction of
two |  number
too  |  also

ate  |  past of eat
eight  |  number

meet  |  to come upon
meat  |  food

hear   |  perceive sound through the ears
here  |  in, a, to this point of place

knight  |  a mounted warrior of feudal times serving a king
night  |  the period between dusk and dawn XD

know  |  have in the mind as the result of experience or of being informed
no  |  not one

hour  !  twenty-fourth part of the day
our  |  belonging to us

would  |  modal auxiliary
wood  |  hard solid substance of a tree, below the bark

one  |  number
won  |  past of win

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