Communication
Synonyms for floor
The synonym for floor recorded in this bank is base, in the sense "a lower limit". 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 floor
- basenoun, in the sense "a lower limit"
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 floor is audited in a second meaning.
a lower limit
The government established a wage floor.
The true synonym
base
Same sentence, swapped: The government established a wage base.
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.
- level
- roof
- ring
Where floor turns up in the game
floor is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in five other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 5 puzzles where floor is the trap
- storynoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is report, in the sense "a short account of the news", with floor sitting one tile away.
- barnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is saloon, in the sense "a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter", with floor sitting one tile away.
- finishnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is coating, in the sense "a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance)", so floor is there to be ruled out.
- buildingnoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is edifice, in the sense "a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place", and floor is on the board beside it.
Play floor
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so floor 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 communication at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. floor carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.