Contact and joining
Synonyms for operate
The synonym for operate recorded in this bank is control, in the sense "handle and cause to function". 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 operate
- controlverb, in the sense "handle and cause to function"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for operate.
handle and cause to function
Do not operate machinery after imbibing alcohol.
The true synonym
control
Same sentence, swapped: Do not control machinery after imbibing alcohol.
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.
- function
- engage
- massage
Where operate turns up in the game
operate is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 operate
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so operate 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 contact and joining words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. operate carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.