Shapes
Synonyms for cuboid
The synonym for cuboid recorded in this bank is block, in the sense "a solid shaped like a rectangular box, with six flat rectangular faces". 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 cuboid
- blocknoun, in the sense "a solid shaped like a rectangular box, with six flat rectangular faces"
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 cuboid is audited in a second meaning.
a solid shaped like a rectangular box, with six flat rectangular faces
Each shipping container was a plain cuboid, its six flat rectangular faces stacked neatly in rows.
The true synonym
block
Same sentence, swapped: Each shipping container was a plain block, its six flat rectangular faces stacked neatly in rows.
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.
- cylinder
- sphere
- wedge
Where cuboid turns up in the game
cuboid is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 cuboid
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so cuboid 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.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. cuboid carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.