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What is the use of a word so that there is a possibility of 2 meanings called?
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Ambiguity or Double Entendre, the difference being whether the two meanings are meant to obfuscate the actual meaning of the sentence (ambiguity) or is an intentional way of saying two distinct things at the same time (double entendre).
If the word only means two things because those two things are spelled the same way, it is a homograph.
Ambiguity Example: The territories will be returned in exchange for peace. (In this sentence, it is ambiguous if the territories will be returned and then peace occurs or if peace occurs and then the territories will be returned or it they occur at the same time.)
Double Entendre Example: When Hannibal Lecter, a cannibal, says: "I am having a friend for dinner. (He could either be dining with a friend or dining on a friend.)
Homograph Example: Saw could mean; I saw you last night or The saw you gave me is broken.
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