Social life
Synonyms for apply
Synonyms for apply: practice, enforce and use. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for apply
Interchangeable with apply, one per sense
Audited under apply's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one apply carries in that sense.
- practiceverb, in the sense "avail oneself to"
- enforceverb, in the sense "ensure observance of laws and rules"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name apply as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- useuse is a verb in the sense "put into service"
Two directions, one standard: two audited under apply and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
avail oneself to
Apply a principle.
The true synonym
practice
Same sentence, swapped: Practice a principle.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- enforce
- hold
- discover
ensure observance of laws and rules
Apply the rules to everyone.
The true synonym
enforce
Same sentence, swapped: Enforce the rules to everyone.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- practice
- employ
- exempt
Where apply turns up in the game
apply is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where apply is the trap
- wedverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is marry, in the sense "perform a marriage ceremony", and apply is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play apply
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so apply reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because social life is the company apply keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. apply carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.