Editing Pun (section)

===Homonymic===

[[File:Evolution of a pitcher LCCN2008677254.jpg|thumb|400px|This cartoon makes fun of how the word "pitcher" means both a vessel and a baseball player by [[morphing]] one into the other.]]
''Homonymic'' puns, another common type, arise from the exploitation of words that are both homographs and homophones. The statement "Being in [[politics]] is just like playing [[golf]]: you are trapped in one bad lie after another" puns on the two meanings of the word ''lie'' as "a deliberate untruth" and as "the position in which something rests". An adaptation of a joke repeated by [[Isaac Asimov]] gives us "Did you hear about the little moron who strained himself while running into the screen door?" playing on ''strained'' as "to give much effort" and "to filter".<ref>Asimov, Isaac. [https://archive.org/details/isaacasimovstrea00asim/page/174 <!-- quote=little moron. --> ''Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor''], p. 175, § 252. 1971. Houghton Mifflin. New York.</ref> A homonymic pun may also be [[polysemic]], in which the words must be homonymic and also possess related meanings, a condition that is often subjective. However, lexicographers define [[polysemes]] as listed under a single dictionary [[Lemma (morphology)|lemma]] (a unique numbered meaning) while homonyms are treated in separate lemmata.