Communication
Synonyms for sign
Synonyms for sign: subscribe, augury and polarity. 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 sign
Interchangeable with sign, one per sense
Audited under sign's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one sign carries in that sense.
- subscribeverb, in the sense "mark with one's signature"
- augurynoun, in the sense "an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name sign as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- polaritypolarity is a noun in the sense "having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges)"
Two directions, one standard: two audited under sign and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
mark with one's signature
Please sign here.
The true synonym
subscribe
Same sentence, swapped: Please subscribe here.
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.
- contract
- bless
- write
an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come
It was a sign from God.
The true synonym
augury
Same sentence, swapped: It was a augury from God.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- mark
- mansion
- trip
Where sign turns up in the game
sign is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in six other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 6 puzzles where sign is the trap
- housenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is firm, in the sense "the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments", with sign sitting one tile away.
- housenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is home, in the sense "a social unit living together", with sign sitting one tile away.
- throwverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is give, in the sense "convey or communicate", with sign sitting one tile away.
- draftverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is compose, in the sense "to compose a preliminary written version of something", and sign is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play sign
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so sign 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 communication is the company sign keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. sign carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.