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• Ambiguity

  Ambiguity A word, phrase or sentence is ambiguous if it has more than one meaning. The word ‘light', for example, can mean not very heavy or not very dark. Words like ‘light', ‘note', ‘bear' and ‘over' are lexically ambiguous. They induce ambiguity in phrases or sentences in which they occur, such as ‘light suit' and ‘Theduchess can't bear children'. However, phrases and sentences can be ambiguous even if none of their constituentsis. The phrase ‘porcelain egg conta...