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Synonyms for tape

The synonym for tape recorded in this bank is taping, in the sense "a recording made on magnetic tape". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for tape

tapingnoun, in the sense "a recording made on magnetic tape"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and tape carries one sense so far.

The sensenounTier 3, RidgelineObjects

a recording made on magnetic tape

The several recordings were combined on a master tape.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

taping

Same sentence, swapped: The several recordings were combined on a master taping.

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 tape in the sentence quoted.

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Where tape turns up in the game

tape is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 tape is the trap

bandverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is ring, in the sense "attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify", so tape is there to be ruled out.
memorynoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is store, in the sense "an electronic memory device", so tape is there to be ruled out.

Play tape

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so tape reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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