Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for overlap
Synonyms for overlap: intersection and lap. 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 overlap
Interchangeable with overlap in this sense
Audited under overlap's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one overlap carries in that sense.
- intersectionnoun, in the sense "a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name overlap as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- laplap is a noun in the sense "a flap that lies over another part"
The first group is filed under overlap's own sense. The second reaches overlap from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena
There was no overlap between their proposals.
The true synonym
intersection
Same sentence, swapped: There was no intersection between their proposals.
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 overlap in the sentence quoted.
- lap
- stereotype
- fuzz
Where overlap turns up in the game
overlap is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 overlap is the trap
Play overlap
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so overlap 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 thinking and knowing at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. overlap carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.