different between spelt vs homography

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sp?lt/
• Rhymes: -?lt

Etymology 1

From spell +? -t. See spell.

Alternative forms

• spelled

Verb

spelt

1. (chiefly Britain) simple past tense and past participle of spell
   • 1590, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, v 1

     Yes, yes; he teaches boys the hornbook. What is a, b, spelt / backward with the horn on his head?

Etymology 2

From Middle English spelt, from Old English spelt (“spelt, corn”), from Old Saxon spelta (“spelt”); or from Late Latin spelta (“spelt”), from Frankish *spelta (“spelt”); all from Proto-Germanic *spiltaz (“spelt”).

Noun

spelt (usually uncountable, plural spelts)

2. A grain, considered either a subspecies of wheat, Triticum aestivum subsp. spelta, or a separate species Triticum spelta or Triticum dicoccon.

Synonyms

• (grain): dinkel wheat

Hypernyms

• (grain): hulled wheat

Coordinate terms

• (grain): emmer (farro), einkorn wheat

Translations

Descendants

• ? Irish: speilt
• ? Welsh: sbelt

See also

• Appendix:Grains

Etymology 3

From Middle High German spalden, or Old Norse spald.

Noun

spelt (plural spelts)

1. (dialect, Northern England, Scotland) A thin piece of wood or metal; a splinter.
2. (metalworking) Spelter.

Verb

spelt (third-person singular simple present spelts, present participle spelting, simple past and past participle spelted)

1. (obsolete) To split; to break; to spalt.

References

• spelt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

References

• spelt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Pelts, pelts, slept

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German spelte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp?lt/, [sb??l?d?]

Noun

spelt c (singular definite spelten, not used in plural form)

1. spelt (a type of wheat, Triticum spelta)

Further reading

• spelt on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp?lt/
• Hyphenation: spelt
• Rhymes: -?lt
• Homophone: speld

Noun

spelt f (uncountable)

1. spelt (grain)

Verb

spelt

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of spellen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of spellen

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

spelt

1. indefinite singular past participle of spela and spele

English

Etymology

homo- +? -graphy

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: h?m??gr?f?, IPA^(key): /h???m????f?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ho??m????fi/
• Rhymes: -????fi

Noun

homography (countable and uncountable, plural homographies)

1. The state or quality of being spelt homographically; the state or quality of existing as homographs.
2. (geometry) An isomorphism between projective spaces that maps straight lines to straight lines.

   A homography on a real projective plane can be specified by a mapping from one set of four non-collinear points to another set of four non-collinear points. Given such a specification, then the 3-by-3 homography matrix may be computed by means of the DLT (Direct Linear Transformation) algorithm.

   Synonyms: projectivity, projective transformation, projective collineation

   Hypernym: collineation

   Hyponyms: linear fractional transformation, Möbius transformation

Related terms

• heterography, homeography