Processes
Synonyms for operation
The synonym for operation recorded in this bank is performance, in the sense "process or manner of functioning or operating". 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 operation
- performancenoun, in the sense "process or manner of functioning or operating"
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 operation is audited in a second meaning.
process or manner of functioning or operating
The plane's operation in high winds.
The true synonym
performance
Same sentence, swapped: The plane's performance in high winds.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot operation is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- process
- surgery
- activity
Where operation turns up in the game
operation 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 two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where operation is the trap
- practicenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is pattern, in the sense "a customary way of operation or behavior", and operation is on the board beside it.
- processnoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is appendage, in the sense "a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant", and operation is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play operation
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so operation 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 processes at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. operation carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.