Materials
Synonyms for ductile
The synonym for ductile recorded in this bank is malleable, in the sense "of a metal, able to be drawn out into a thin wire without breaking". 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 ductile
- malleableadjective, in the sense "of a metal, able to be drawn out into a thin wire without breaking"
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 ductile is audited in a second meaning.
of a metal, able to be drawn out into a thin wire without breaking
Copper is prized for being ductile, so it can be drawn into thin wire for electrical cable.
The true synonym
malleable
Same sentence, swapped: Copper is prized for being malleable, so it can be drawn into thin wire for electrical cable.
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.
- brittle
- rigid
- corrosive
Where ductile turns up in the game
ductile 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 ductile
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so ductile 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 materials is the company ductile keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. ductile carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.