User:Klas Katt/sandbox

Heterosemy is a concept in linguistics.

A word is heterosemous if it has two or more semantically related meanings, but each use is associated with a different type of morphosyntactic category. An example is the English word peel which functions as a noun in I threw the orange peel in the bin Heterosemy can be seen as a special case of polysemy, with the difference that each meaning of a polysemous form is associated with the same lexeme.