Shapes

Synonyms for contour

The synonym for contour recorded in this bank is outline, in the sense "the outline or shape of something, especially a curved edge or surface". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for contour

outlinenoun, in the sense "the outline or shape of something, especially a curved edge or surface"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day contour is audited in a second meaning.

The sensenounTier 1, FoothillsShapes

the outline or shape of something, especially a curved edge or surface

The contour of the hillside was visible in the fading light.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

outline

Same sentence, swapped: The outline of the hillside was visible in the fading light.

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 contour in the sentence quoted.

shadow
gradient
texture

Where contour turns up in the game

contour 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 contour is the trap

facetnoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is aspect, in the sense "a distinct feature or element in a problem", so contour is there to be ruled out.

Play contour

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so contour 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 shapes at Foothills outward to the whole bank.

cuboidnounblocka solid shaped like a rectangular box, with six flat rectangular facesFoothillsHas a reason line flareverbwidento spread outward gradually, becoming wider at one endFoothillsHas a reason line indentationnoundenta shallow, sunken mark or dent in a surfaceFoothillsHas a reason line polygonnounhexagona closed shape with straight sides, here specified as six-sidedFoothillsHas a reason line bulbousadjectiveswollenrounded and swelling outward, like a bulbTreelineHas a reason line bulgenounswella rounded part that swells outward from a surfaceTreelineHas a reason line circumferencenounperimeterthe distance measured around the outside of a circular or curved objectTreelineHas a reason line rateverb, nounvalueestimate the value ofFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line

Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. contour carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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