Groups and collections
Synonyms for section
Synonyms for section: department, part and segment. 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 3 synonyms for section
Interchangeable with section, one per sense
Audited under section's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one section carries in that sense.
- departmentnoun, in the sense "a specialized division of a large organization"
- partnoun, in the sense "one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name section as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- segmentsegment is a verb in the sense "divide into segments"
Two directions, one standard: two audited under section and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
a specialized division of a large organization
She got a job in the historical section of the Treasury.
The true synonym
department
Same sentence, swapped: She got a job in the historical department of the Treasury.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- incision
- block
- heading
one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
The finance section of the company.
The true synonym
part
Same sentence, swapped: The finance part of the company.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where section stands in the sentence above.
- incision
- possibility
- theory
Where section turns up in the game
section is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where section is the trap
- sentencenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is time, in the sense "the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned", and section is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play section
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so section 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 groups and collections at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
The same bank, read from both sides
section is an answer in 2 puzzles and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.