Hi, Denis!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

 AH>  "AKA" is an abbreviation for "also known as".  It's used
 AH>  in various situations where the same person, place, or
 AH>  thing is often identified by two or more different names.
 AH>  In this case "strainer" and "sieve" are synonymous.  :-)

 DM>  A.K.A. is an abbreviation


          According to my North American dictionaries it may be spelled a.k.a.,
aka, or AKA... but we don't use periods if the letters are capitalized.



 DM>  for All Known As.


          Careful!  The substitution of "all" for "also" changes the meaning.



 DM>  But what is "strainer" and "sieve" (synonymous
 DM>  of what?..) ?


          In this example I'm referring to a container which has holes in it...
the sort of thing you might use for rinsing fresh berries with water before you
eat them.  When my usual resources define "strainer" as "sieve" and vice versa,
I'd say they regard these two words as synonyms (n.)... or as synonymous (adj.)
*with each other*.  Synonyms are words which have +/- the same meaning....  :-)




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