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Thesaurus vs Periodicals - What's the difference?

thesaurus | periodicals |

As nouns the difference between thesaurus and periodicals

is that thesaurus is a publication, usually in the form of a book, that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms) for the words of a given language while periodicals is .

thesaurus

English

(wikipedia thesaurus)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A publication, usually in the form of a book, that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms) for the words of a given language.
    • "Roget" is the leading brand name for a print English thesaurus'' that lists words under general concepts rather than just close synonyms.
  • (archaic) A dictionary or encyclopedia.
  • (information science) A hierarchy of subject headings—canonic titles of themes and topics, the titles serving as search keys.

    • Synonyms

    * synonymicon

    Derived terms

    * thesaural

    See also

    * ontology * *

    External links

    * * * Roget's Thesaurus can be found at: http://www.bartleby.com/thesauri ----

    periodicals

    English

    Noun

    (head) (p)