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

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

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.

for All Known As.

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

But what is "strainer" and "sieve" (synonymous
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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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.

for All Known As.

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

Is is synonyms?

But what is "strainer" and "sieve" (synonymous
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.... :-)

What is synonym of 2 of them?

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

Occasionally we can omit letters or entire words
in English without changing the meaning. But "also"
seems to be a contraction of "all so", i.e. the
translation of a word from Old English. That's as
brief as it gets. :-Q

:-Q - what is from your mooth?

I use ":-Q" to indicate a "tongue-in-cheek" comment... i.e an ironic or facetious remark not to be taken too seriously. I have also seen ":-P" and other variations used where the author is limited to a standard keyboard. :-)

It's often said there are no exact synonyms in English...
and while the "rule" may have "exceptions", a pair like
this is all I can come up with.

:-( I do not know, Ardith.

Not to worry. As we say in English... "Rome wasn't built in a day". UK/US pairs are mentioned from time to time, however, in this echo. :-)

Since you are interested in cooking, however... the
larger version, equipped with three or four legs &
used to drain bulky food items like cooked spaghetti
or fresh lettuce leaves, is known around here as a
"colander". :-)

Android Collaider? ;-)

I reckon you may be onto something, but I don't understand what you mean by "Collaider". Are you thinking of "collide" [v.] as in "come together violently by force"? I know the vowel sounds in Russian are a bit different from what I'm used to, which is how I read your spelling of "mouth".... :-))




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