does thesaurus strips suffix to show related words or it just use its
database for its related words?

for example the word drives (which has a inflectional suffix "s") has no
synonym but it display its related word drive

drives -- drive

while the word "derivational" (which has a derivational suffix "al" and
"tion") has no synonym and it does not display its related words "derive",
"derivation"

isnt that consistency?

Hi ?B?bWFqb3JndWlsZV9iYWdldHM=?=,

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does thesaurus strips suffix to show related words or it just use its
database for its related words?

for example the word drives (which has a inflectional suffix "s") has no
synonym but it display its related word drive

drives -- drive

while the word "derivational" (which has a derivational suffix "al" and
"tion") has no synonym and it does not display its related words "derive",
"derivation"

isnt that consistency?


Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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