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|    Denis Mosko to Ardith Hinton    |
|    Re: Riced Vegetables    |
|    16 Oct 20 09:17:50    |
      REPLY: 1:153/716.0 f88fdec2       MSGID: 2:5064/54.1315 5f893b60       CHRS: CP866 2       TZUTC: 0300       TID: hpt/w32-mgw 1.4.0-sta 30-03-12        DM>> A.K.A. is an abbreviation        AH> According to my North American dictionaries it may be        AH> spelled a.k.a., aka, or AKA... but we don't use periods if the letters        AH> are capitalized.        DM>> for All Known As.        AH> Careful! The substitution of "all" for "also" changes the        AH> meaning.       Is is synonyms?               DM>> But what is "strainer" and "sieve" (synonymous        DM>> of what?..) ?        AH> In this example I'm referring to a container which has holes        AH> in it... the sort of thing you might use for rinsing fresh berries        AH> with water before you eat them. When my usual resources define        AH> "strainer" as "sieve" and vice versa, I'd say they regard these two        AH> words as synonyms (n.)... or as synonymous (adj.) *with each other*.        AH> Synonyms are words which have +/- the same meaning.... :-)       What is synonym of 2 of them?              --- GoldED+/W32-MINGW 1.1.5-b20120519 (Kubik 3.0)        * Origin: В начале было слово. В конце будет ориджин. (2:5064/54.1315)       SEEN-BY: 1/19 123 16/0 19/10 50/109 90/1 120/340 123/130 131 203/0       SEEN-BY: 221/0 1 6 360 226/30 227/114 702 229/101 275 424 426 664       SEEN-BY: 229/1016 240/1120 2100 5138 5411 5832 5853 249/206 317 250/25       SEEN-BY: 261/38 280/5003 317/3 320/119 219 319 322/0 757 335/364 342/200       SEEN-BY: 423/81 450/1024 463/68 467/888 640/1384 2454/119 4500/1 5000/111       SEEN-BY: 5001/100 5005/49 5015/42 46 5019/40 5020/830 846 1042 2140       SEEN-BY: 5020/4441 5053/51 5054/8 5064/41 54 56 5075/128 5080/68 102       SEEN-BY: 5083/1 444       PATH: 5064/54 5020/1042 221/6 1 320/219 240/5832 229/426           |
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