Perception
Synonyms for detect
The synonym for detect recorded in this bank is register, in the sense "to discover or notice the presence of something not immediately obvious". 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 detect
- registerverb, in the sense "to discover or notice the presence of something not immediately obvious"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for detect.
to discover or notice the presence of something not immediately obvious
Sensors in the hallway can detect the faintest trace of smoke.
The true synonym
register
Same sentence, swapped: Sensors in the hallway can register the faintest trace of smoke.
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 detect in the sentence quoted.
- ignore
- release
- extinguish
Where detect turns up in the game
detect 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 detect
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so detect 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 perception is the company detect keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. detect carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.