Thesaurus vs Liaison - What's the difference?
thesaurus | liaison |
A publication, usually in the form of a book, that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms) for the words of a given language.
(archaic) A dictionary or encyclopedia.
(information science) A hierarchy of subject headings—canonic titles of themes and topics, the titles serving as search keys.
Communication between two parties or groups.
Co-operation, working together.
A relayer of information between two forces in an army or during war.
A tryst, romantic meeting.
(figuratively) An illicit sexual relationship or affair.
(linguistics) The phonological fusion of two consecutive words and the manner in which this occurs, for example intrusion, consonant-vowel linking, etc. In the context of some languages, such as French, liaison can refer specifically to a normally silent final consonant, being pronounced when the next word begins with a vowel, and can often also include the intrusion of a "t" in certain fixed chunks of language such as the question form "pense-t-il ".
As nouns the difference between thesaurus and liaison
is that thesaurus is thesaurus while liaison is .thesaurus
English
(wikipedia thesaurus)Noun
(en-noun)- "Roget" is the leading brand name for a print English thesaurus'' that lists words under general concepts rather than just close synonyms.