Giving and transferring
Synonyms for toss
Synonyms for toss: hand and flip. 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 2 synonyms for toss
Interchangeable with toss in this sense
Audited under toss's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one toss carries in that sense.
- handverb, in the sense "to give or pass something to someone casually, often by throwing gently"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name toss as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- flipflip is a verb in the sense "lightly throw to see which side comes up"
The first group is filed under toss's own sense. The second reaches toss from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
to give or pass something to someone casually, often by throwing gently
Toss me the remote before the show starts.
The true synonym
hand
Same sentence, swapped: Hand me the remote before the show starts.
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 toss in the sentence quoted.
- grab
- drop
- catch
Where toss turns up in the game
toss is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 toss is the trap
- clutchverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is grip, in the sense "to hold something tightly, often against the risk of losing it", and toss is on the board beside it.
Play toss
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so toss reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from giving and transferring at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. toss carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.