Thesaurus vs Workmate - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between thesaurus and workmate

is that thesaurus is thesaurus while workmate is somebody with whom one works; a coworker.

(wikipedia thesaurus)

(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.

* synonymicon

* thesaural

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