Materials
Synonyms for splice
The synonym for splice recorded in this bank is join, in the sense "to join two ends of material together to form a continuous length". 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 splice
- joinverb, in the sense "to join two ends of material together to form a continuous length"
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 splice is audited in a second meaning.
to join two ends of material together to form a continuous length
The electrician had to splice the frayed wires together before restoring power.
The true synonym
join
Same sentence, swapped: The electrician had to join the frayed wires together before restoring power.
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 splice in the sentence quoted.
- insulate
- ground
- strip
Where splice turns up in the game
splice is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play splice
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so splice reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other materials words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. splice carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.