Groups and collections
Synonyms for chain
Synonyms for chain: concatenation and string. 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 chain
Interchangeable with chain in this sense
Audited under chain's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one chain carries in that sense.
- concatenationnoun, in the sense "a series of things depending on each other as if linked together"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name chain as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- stringstring is a noun in the sense "a necklace made by stringing objects together"
The first group is filed under chain's own sense. The second reaches chain from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
a series of things depending on each other as if linked together
The chain of command.
The true synonym
concatenation
Same sentence, swapped: The concatenation of command.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where chain stands in the sentence above.
- cycle
- blizzard
- rash
Where chain turns up in the game
chain is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. 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 chain is the trap
- cliffnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is drop, in the sense "a steep high face of rock", with chain sitting one tile away.
- housenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is firm, in the sense "the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments", so chain is there to be ruled out.
- rangenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is reach, in the sense "an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:", and chain is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play chain
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so chain reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other groups and collections words at Summit, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
One vocabulary, two jobs
chain is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 3. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.