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Synonyms for diaphragm

The synonym for diaphragm recorded in this bank is stop, in the sense "a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens". 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 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · noun

The synonym for diaphragm

stopnoun, in the sense "a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens"

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

The sensenounTier 3, RidgelineObjects

a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens

The new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

stop

Same sentence, swapped: The new cameras adjust the stop automatically.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where diaphragm stands in the sentence above.

midriff
propeller
ratchet

Where diaphragm turns up in the game

diaphragm is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 diaphragm

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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