Contact and joining
Synonyms for patch
Synonyms for patch: piece, cobble, plot and spot. 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 4 synonyms for patch
Interchangeable with patch in this sense
Audited under patch's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one patch carries in that sense.
- pieceverb, in the sense "to join or unite the pieces of"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name patch as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
Two directions, one standard: one audited under patch and three under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
to join or unite the pieces of
Patch the skirt.
The true synonym
piece
Same sentence, swapped: Piece the skirt.
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.
- feather
- pair
- plot
Where patch turns up in the game
patch 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 four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where patch is the trap
- momentnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is bit, in the sense "an indefinitely short time", and patch is on the board beside it.
- spellnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is charm, in the sense "a verbal formula believed to have magical force", and patch is one of the three tiles that lose.
- spellnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is turn, in the sense "a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)", and patch is one of the three tiles that lose.
- plotnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is game, in the sense "a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)", so patch is there to be ruled out.
Play patch
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so patch 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 contact and joining at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. patch carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.