Shapes
Synonyms for crescent
The synonym for crescent recorded in this bank is sickle, in the sense "a curved shape that tapers to a point at each end, like the moon in its early phase". 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 crescent
- sicklenoun, in the sense "a curved shape that tapers to a point at each end, like the moon in its early phase"
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 crescent is audited in a second meaning.
a curved shape that tapers to a point at each end, like the moon in its early phase
The pastry chef shaped the dough into a crescent, curved and tapering at both ends, before baking.
The true synonym
sickle
Same sentence, swapped: The pastry chef shaped the dough into a sickle, curved and tapering at both ends, before baking.
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 crescent in the sentence quoted.
- pretzel
- baguette
- roll
Where crescent turns up in the game
crescent is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play crescent
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so crescent 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 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. crescent carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.