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Synonyms for tarpaulin
The synonym for tarpaulin recorded in this bank is sheeting, in the sense "a large sheet of heavy waterproof material used as a cover". 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 tarpaulin
- sheetingnoun, in the sense "a large sheet of heavy waterproof material used as a cover"
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 tarpaulin is audited in a second meaning.
a large sheet of heavy waterproof material used as a cover
They stretched tarpaulin over the woodpile before the storm.
The true synonym
sheeting
Same sentence, swapped: They stretched sheeting over the woodpile before the storm.
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 tarpaulin in the sentence quoted.
- netting
- matting
- insulation
Where tarpaulin turns up in the game
tarpaulin is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 tarpaulin
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so tarpaulin 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 objects is the company tarpaulin keeps.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. tarpaulin carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.