Unparalleled Misalignments

Some of these are very cool and fits their definition exactly. But some others are very forced. Who would think that “fashion” and “taylor” are synonyms? And they are both further synonyms of “fix”? Or in the “Cold Fusion // Cool Cat” pair how would “fusion” be a synonym of “cat”?

A tailor makes clothes.

To fashion something is to make something. To tailor something is to customise it.

`cat` is a Unix command for concatenating files, which you could argue is fusing them together?

when you make a list like this then it's always a challenge to deal with edge cases. fashion and tailor fit together as well as many other terms on that list. a swift taylor can be seen as producing fast fashion, even if not true in reality. fixing clothes is also the work of many tailors. with getting custom tailored clothes falling out of fashion (pun intended ;-) the bulk of the work of most tailors is making changes and fixing things. in germany it is even a recognized profession with a two year training (you can become a full tailor with an extra year). most of my visits to a tailor recently have literally been for a quick fix. stuff that i could probably have done myself if i had a sowing machine and time.

i am with you on the cat fusion however. i don't get that one either.

I think you are onto something with ‘tailor’. If we take it as the verb ‘to tailor’ that is the synonym of the ‘to fashion’. Tailor as a profession is not a synonym of the noun ‘fashion’. But it is enough for them to be synonyms in one sense. So that works.

I hear you on ‘cat’ but i wouldn’t call that relationship synonyms.

> fixing clothes is also the work of many tailors. with getting custom tailored clothes falling out of fashion

These are all good reasons for semantic closeness, but semantic closeness and being synonyms are not the same thing.

That being said while tailor (profession) is not a synonym of fashion (concept), tailor (verb) is a synonym of fashion (verb) and can be also a synonym of fix (verb).