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Synonyms for beam

Synonyms for beam: girder and grin. 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.

2 synonyms · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The 2 synonyms for beam

Interchangeable with beam in this sense

Audited under beam's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one beam carries in that sense.

girdernoun, in the sense "a long, sturdy piece of squared timber or metal used to support a structure"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name beam as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

gringrin is a verb in the sense "to smile broadly, showing the teeth"

one of these comes from beam's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.

The sensenounTier 2, TreelineMaterials

a long, sturdy piece of squared timber or metal used to support a structure

A single steel beam spanned the warehouse ceiling, bearing the weight of the roof above.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

girder

Same sentence, swapped: A single steel girder spanned the warehouse ceiling, bearing the weight of the roof above.

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 beam in the sentence quoted.

rebar
lattice
trestle

Where beam turns up in the game

beam is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where beam is the trap

planknoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is board, in the sense "a long flat piece of timber", so beam is there to be ruled out.
publishverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is release, in the sense "prepare and issue for public distribution or sale", and beam is on the board beside it.

Play beam

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so beam 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 wrong tile gets explained too

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