Objects
Synonyms for mount
Synonyms for mount: setting, bestride and bracket. 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 3 synonyms for mount
Interchangeable with mount, one per sense
Audited under mount's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one mount carries in that sense.
- settingnoun, in the sense "a mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place"
- bestrideverb, in the sense "get up on the back of"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name mount as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- bracketbracket is a noun in the sense "a rigid support fixed to a wall to hold something up"
Two directions, one standard: two audited under mount and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
a mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place
The diamond was in a plain gold mount.
The true synonym
setting
Same sentence, swapped: The diamond was in a plain gold setting.
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 mount in the sentence quoted.
- climb
- matting
- advance
get up on the back of
Mount a horse.
The true synonym
bestride
Same sentence, swapped: Bestride a horse.
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.
- wax
- climb
- pound
Where mount turns up in the game
mount is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in six other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 6 puzzles where mount is the trap
- settingnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is background, in the sense "the state of the environment in which a situation exists", so mount is there to be ruled out.
- settingnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is scene, in the sense "the context and environment in which something is set", so mount is there to be ruled out.
- triggerverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is trip, in the sense "put in motion or move to act", so mount is there to be ruled out.
- backingnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is backup, in the sense "the act of providing approval and support", and mount is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play mount
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so mount reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other objects words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. mount carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.