Objects
Synonyms for timber
The synonym for timber recorded in this bank is joist, in the sense "a large piece of wood used in building construction, especially one supporting a floor or ceiling". 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 timber
- joistnoun, in the sense "a large piece of wood used in building construction, especially one supporting a floor or ceiling"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and timber carries one sense so far.
a large piece of wood used in building construction, especially one supporting a floor or ceiling
A thick wooden timber ran beneath the attic floorboards.
The true synonym
joist
Same sentence, swapped: A thick wooden joist ran beneath the attic floorboards.
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 timber in the sentence quoted.
- rafter
- stud
- lintel
Where timber turns up in the game
timber 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where timber is the trap
- undergrowthnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is brush, in the sense "dense low vegetation growing beneath trees in a forest", and timber is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play timber
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so timber 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 objects words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. timber carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.