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Synonyms for interval
Synonyms for interval: intermission and separation. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for interval
Interchangeable with interval in this sense
Audited under interval's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one interval carries in that sense.
- intermissionnoun, in the sense "a pause or break between two parts of an event"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name interval as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- separationseparation is a noun in the sense "the distance between things"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under interval and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
a pause or break between two parts of an event
The concert had a fifteen-minute interval between the two acts.
The true synonym
intermission
Same sentence, swapped: The concert had a fifteen-minute intermission between the two acts.
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.
- encore
- overture
- finale
Where interval turns up in the game
interval is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where interval is the trap
- meanwhilenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is meantime, in the sense "the time between one event, process, or period and another", so interval is there to be ruled out.
Play interval
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so interval 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 time is the company interval keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. interval carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.