homonym 同音異義詞
Homonyms are words that are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings since they come from different origins. Homonymy is the state of being homonym.
Examples of homonyms are stalk (which as a noun can mean part of a plant, and, as a verb, to follow/harass a person), bear (animal) and bear (carry), left (opposite of right) and left (past tense of leave). Some sources also consider the following trio of words to be homonyms, but others designate them as "only" homophones: to, too and two (actually, to, to, too, too and two, being "for the purpose of" as in "to make it easier", the opposite of "from", also, excessively, and "two", respectively).
Extracted and adapted from Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homonym
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