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The Wind blows and we Wind up clocks....How many other words have such different meanings....?

This is your homework for tonight .....There is also the same sounding words that are spelt different too,two ,to ....
Ill start you off....Steak and Stake .....these too even have the same letters just arranged different....:) 

Posted - June 28, 2018

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  • 44175
    I know of one that has many meanings, It is not allowed here. Here are some others:

    Juice
    can
    jack
    clock
    hop
    There are many more but I'll save them for other members.
      June 28, 2018 2:37 PM MDT
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  • 10449
    Can you can the can-can?
      June 28, 2018 2:41 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    E's a nice boy really ....:)D
      June 28, 2018 3:54 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    What is the Juice one.....electricity and a fruit drink ? 
      June 29, 2018 2:33 AM MDT
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  • 44175
    Yes.
      June 29, 2018 6:22 AM MDT
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  • 14795
    My god that was hard for this blonde to work out....:( 
      June 29, 2018 7:57 AM MDT
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  • 10449
    Pasty.  One can be pasty looking (pale) or one can eat a pasty (meat pie from Cornwall).  Would you eat a pasty pasty?
    Resort.  One can go to a resort or they can resort to something different.  When the Paradise Resort burned down, people had to resort to staying at the No-Tell Motel.
    Pet.  One can own a pet dog and they can also pet their cat.  Do you pet your pet?
      June 28, 2018 2:38 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    Dam...I have to resort to answer this now....it's a pet hate of mine digging long holes into rock music.....:)
      June 28, 2018 3:27 PM MDT
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  • 22891
    not sure about all this
      June 28, 2018 2:46 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    Confusing English ...:(
      June 28, 2018 3:21 PM MDT
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  • 6023
    Break vs Brake


      June 28, 2018 2:55 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    You better stop and rest for a while now....:)
      June 28, 2018 3:20 PM MDT
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    7268
    Mint to eat and mint a coin. 
      June 28, 2018 3:37 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    Are you Minted to... ??
      June 28, 2018 4:04 PM MDT
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    7268
    Tick as in tick tock and tick as in blood sucking little monster. 
      June 28, 2018 3:45 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    How about getting things on Tick or Tick things of your list ....
      June 28, 2018 4:09 PM MDT
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  • 7268
    Oh, yes that works or a clock that is running amuck tick, tick, tick, tick because it hasn't learned how to tock yet.  This post was edited by . at June 29, 2018 6:23 AM MDT
      June 28, 2018 6:36 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    Is it only English speaking clocks that tick tock ....what noise do Russian ,German or Chineese clock say.....? 
      June 29, 2018 2:30 AM MDT
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  • 73
    Wound
    Polish
    Tear
    Lead
      June 28, 2018 5:38 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    Four good ones.....  Lol

    The wound and wound sound so different when you say them....
      June 29, 2018 2:26 AM MDT
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  • Plane / Plain
    Some / Sum
    So / Sew / Sow
    Dear / Deer
    Coal / Cole
    All / Awl
    Berry / Bury
    Course / Coarse
    Way / Whey / Weigh
    Fore / Four / For

      June 28, 2018 5:52 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    Funny, reading them all in front of me makes me realise just how many there aprealy are.....are there other languages that have the same words with different meanings...are there words with more than three meanings....?
      June 29, 2018 2:23 AM MDT
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  • Well ... in Spanish, if you put the adjective before the noun it can mean something different than if it is put after the noun ...
    like grande hombre = A great man
    and hombre grande = A large or fat man.
      June 29, 2018 3:51 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    Hold on...I only nearly speak English..:(
      June 29, 2018 4:33 PM MDT
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