A "synoonym" is "a parto of the first part" in a BINARY RELATION with another word. as im "man" relating to "male". Synonyms have the same meaning (semtiotic status), but usually different spellings (syntactic status. This i in contrast to homonyms (PL), which are spelled and pronounced the same (partial syntactic samenesssemantic status, as in the noun "lie" (synonymous with "untruth") and the verb "lie" (synonymous with "prevaricate"); please note that the grammatical difference her (noun and verb) indicates a syntactic deviation, even though spelled and pronounced the same.