Events
Synonyms for clip
Synonyms for clip: time and nip. 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 clip
Interchangeable with clip in this sense
Audited under clip's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one clip carries in that sense.
- timenoun, in the sense "an instance or single occasion for some event"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name clip as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- nipnip is a verb in the sense "sever or remove by pinching or snipping"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under clip and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
an instance or single occasion for some event
He could do ten at a clip.
The true synonym
time
Same sentence, swapped: He could do ten at a time.
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 clip in the sentence quoted.
- magazine
- snip
- humiliation
Where clip turns up in the game
clip 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 four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where clip is the trap
- dressverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is groom, in the sense "give a neat appearance to", with clip sitting one tile away.
- labelverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is mark, in the sense "attach a tag or label to", and clip is on the board beside it.
- curtailverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is curb, in the sense "place restrictions on", and clip is one of the three tiles that lose.
- humiliationnoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is mortification, in the sense "an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect", with clip sitting one tile away.
Play clip
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so clip 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 events at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. clip carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.