Groups and collections

Synonyms for crew

The synonym for crew recorded in this bank is hands, in the sense "a group of people who work together to operate a ship, aircraft, or vehicle". 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 2, Treeline · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for crew

handsnoun, in the sense "a group of people who work together to operate a ship, aircraft, or vehicle"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and crew carries one sense so far.

The sensenounTier 2, TreelineGroups and collections

a group of people who work together to operate a ship, aircraft, or vehicle.

The captain briefed the crew before the ferry left the dock.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

hands

Same sentence, swapped: The captain briefed the hands before the ferry left the dock.

Close but different

Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.

passengers
cargo
captain

Where crew turns up in the game

crew 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzle where crew is the trap

hordenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is swarm, in the sense "a large, disorganized group of people or animals", so crew is there to be ruled out.

Play crew

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so crew 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 Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

varietynounchangea difference that is usually pleasantTreeline2 sensesHas a reason line wholesaleadverboutrightaffecting a whole group all at once, without exceptionTreelineHas a reason line administrationnounbrassthe persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering somethingTreeline2 senses agedadjective, nounolderadvanced in yearsTreeline2 sensesHas a reason line collectiveadjectivejointdone by or shared among all the members of a group together.FoothillsHas a reason line colonynounsettlementa body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homelandTreeline combonounensembleinformal: a small group of musicians who perform together.TreelineHas a reason line agonynountormentintense feelings of sufferingTreelineHas a reason line

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

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