Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for principle
The synonym for principle recorded in this bank is rule, in the sense "a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system". 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 principle
- rulenoun, in the sense "a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system"
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 principle is audited in a second meaning.
a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system
The principle of jet propulsion.
The true synonym
rule
Same sentence, swapped: The rule of jet propulsion.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where principle stands in the sentence above.
- rationale
- occasion
- activity
Where principle turns up in the game
principle 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 two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where principle is the trap
- elementnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is component, in the sense "an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up", and principle is one of the three tiles that lose.
- interpretingnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is rendering, in the sense "an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious", with principle sitting one tile away.
Play principle
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so principle reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because thinking and knowing is the company principle keeps.
One vocabulary, two jobs
principle is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 2. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.