Contact and joining
Synonyms for band
Synonyms for band: ring and ensemble. 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 2 synonyms for band
Interchangeable with band in this sense
Audited under band's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one band carries in that sense.
- ringverb, in the sense "attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name band as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- ensembleensemble is a noun in the sense "a group of musicians or performers who play or perform together"
The first group is filed under band's own sense. The second reaches band from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify
Band the geese to observe their migratory patterns.
The true synonym
ring
Same sentence, swapped: Ring the geese to observe their migratory patterns.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for band in the sentence quoted.
- tape
- introduce
- level
Where band turns up in the game
band is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where band is the trap
- ringverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is knell, in the sense "make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification", so band is there to be ruled out.
- scoreverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is nock, in the sense "make small marks into the surface of", with band sitting one tile away.
- ringnoun, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is tintinnabulation, in the sense "the sound of a bell ringing", so band is there to be ruled out.
Play band
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so band reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from contact and joining at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. band carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.