Contact and joining
Synonyms for coat
The synonym for coat recorded in this bank is surface, in the sense "put a coat on". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for coat
- surfaceverb, in the sense "put a coat on"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and coat carries one sense so far.
put a coat on
The crew will coat the road with fresh tar.
The true synonym
surface
Same sentence, swapped: The crew will surface the road with fresh tar.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- bread
- paint
- jacket
Where coat turns up in the game
coat 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where coat is the trap
- grainnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is texture, in the sense "the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)", and coat is on the board beside it.
Play coat
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so coat 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 contact and joining is the company coat keeps.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
coat is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.