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> Il giorno 15 apr 2016, alle ore 09:24, Oleksiy Muzalyev 
> <[email protected]> ha scritto:
> 
> RADIO/TELEVISION 2. a tall metal pole used to support an AERIAL for radio or 
> television signals: a television/radio mast
> 
> for the word "tower" meaning No.2
> a tall, usually metal structure used for broadcasting: a radio/transmission 
> tower.


do you notice that the mast version writes about a "pole"?


> 
> Google search of "radio mast", "radio tower", "television mast", "television 
> tower", etc. gives each millions of results with similar images. It seems 
> that the words "mast" and "tower" are interchangeable.


-1, there might be edge cases that can be described with both words, but many 
can not.



> The article in English Wikipedia is called: "Radio masts and towers": 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_masts_and_towers


and if someone writes an article about "life and death" that's both the same 
state? This article puts both types in one article because it doesn't care 
about the shape but about the function (radio transmission)


cheers,
Martin 
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