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noun
- a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem
- (British) A particularly difficult question or puzzle.
- a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor
- a person who habitually pretends to be something they are not
- Someone who, or something which, poses; a person who sets their body in a fixed position, such as for photography or painting.
- Someone who asks a question or sets a problem.
- (derogatory, slang) A poseur; someone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others.
noun
- a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem
- a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing
- a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf
- an adhesive label
- A wooden strip placed between courses of lumber to allow air circulation and to create a gap so the unit can be picked up with a forklift (also kiln sticker).
- (US, politics) A paster.
- (music) A small wooden rod in an organ which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing.
- (Internet) A cartoonish illustration of a character that represents an emotion or action, often accompanied by text, that may be superimposed on a digital image.
- An adhesive label or decal.
- A brand, label, or company, especially one making and distributing records.
- (military slang, World War I– World War II, if not earlier) A bayonet.
- One who sticks to something, or does not give up; a stayer.
- (by extension) The listed price (also sticker price).
- Something or someone that sticks (pierces, or adheres).
- (informal) A burr or seed pod that catches in fur or clothing.
- A price tag.
verb
noun
- A riddle, or a difficult problem.
- a difficult problem
- Riddles and puzzles, collectively.
- A style of literature characterized by obscurity and hints of transcendental meaning.
- A protein with three LIM domains (a conserved cysteine- and histidine-rich structure of two adjacent zinc fingers) at the C terminus that regulates protein phosphorylation.
- Mysteriousness; obscurity; a lack of clarity.
- Something or someone puzzling, mysterious or inexplicable.
- The Talaud kingfisher, Todiramphus enigma.
- Alternative letter-case form of Enigma.
- Any of species of Heliothis enigma of rare moths.
- Any of species of Oedaleonotus enigma of grasshoppers.
- something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
verb
- To perplex or puzzle.
- To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.
- To stun or amaze.
- To combine in a confused fashion; to mingle so as to make the parts indistinguishable.
- (sometimes proscribed) To make something worse.
- To cause to be ashamed; to abash.
- To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
- mistake one thing for another
- be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
noun
noun
- An unanswerable question or difficult puzzle, particularly one which leads to a deeper truth.
- A counterintuitive conclusion or outcome.
- (uncountable) The use of counterintuitive or contradictory statements (paradoxes) in speech or writing.
- A claim that two apparently contradictory ideas are true.
- A person or thing having contradictory properties.
- A thing involving contradictory yet interrelated elements that exist simultaneously and persist over time.
- (uncountable, philosophy) A state in which one is logically compelled to contradict oneself.
- An apparently self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa.
- (countable, uncountable, psychotherapy) The practice of giving instructions that are opposed to the therapist's actual intent, with the intention that the client will disobey or be unable to obey.
- (logic) a statement that contradicts itself
verb
- set a difficult problem or riddle
- explain a riddle
- spread or diffuse through
- separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
- speak in riddles
- pierce with many holes
- To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
- To put something through a riddle or sieve; to sieve; to sift.
- (transitive) To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.
- To fill with holes like a riddle.
- (figuratively) To fill or spread throughout; to pervade (with something destructive or weakening).
noun
- a difficult problem
- A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
- a coarse sieve (as for gravel)
- A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
- (religious) One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south.
- A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
- An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
noun
- A riddle or sieve.
- (aeronautics) A control surface on the vertical stabilizer of a fixed-wing aircraft or an autogyro. On some craft, the entire vertical stabilizer comprises the rudder. The rudder is controlled by foot-operated control pedals.
- The tail of an otter.
- (figurative) That which resembles a rudder as a guide or governor; that which guides or governs the course.
- (nautical) An underwater vane used to steer a vessel. The rudder is controlled by means of a wheel, tiller or other apparatus (modern vessels can be controlled even with a joystick or an autopilot).
- (nautical) steering mechanism consisting of a hinged vertical plate mounted at the stern of a vessel
- a hinged vertical airfoil mounted at the tail of an aircraft and used to make horizontal course changes
noun
- (rare) A complex question, whose wording hinders the ability to answer it correctly.
- (idiomatic) A question that attempts to elicit an answer in a certain way, usually incorrectly (i.e. that seems to have an obvious answer that is however incorrect), or a question that does not have a correct answer or that hides the real question or some difficulty.
adj
- (by extension) Very difficult.
- (often figuratively) Of an object: used to commit murder; capable of causing death; deadly, fatal.
- Of a person: intending or likely to commit murder; bloodthirsty, homicidal.
- Of, characterized by, or pertaining to murder or murderers.
- characteristic of or capable of or having a tendency toward killing another human being
noun
- (informal) Something that is difficult to figure out; a puzzle.
- An implement for cracking nuts.
- (ornithology) Any bird of the genus Nucifraga in the crow family.
- (by extension) Ellipsis of nutcracker doll.
- (US, New York City) A bootleg mixed drink made from a blend of alcohols and fruit juices.
- any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects
- a compound lever used to crack nuts open
- speckled birds that feed on nuts
noun
- something outstandingly difficult
- something that is extraordinary or remarkable or prominent
- someone who expresses contempt or indignation by uttering a snorting sound
- (slang) A punch on the nose.
- One who snorts.
- (slang) Something extraordinary or remarkable.
- (UK, slang) Something that is extremely difficult.
- (nautical, slang) A powerful gale.
noun
- A question or puzzle in which one is expected to fill in a missing part of something.
- (marketing) A product category that is used to complete a range or variety of a product line.
- A substitution.
- A temporary replacement for another, especially at a job.
- (music) A musical embellishment (usually percussion) that is added to connect musical phrases.
- Something added to increase the size of something; padding or filler.
- Something added to fill a gap.
- (mathematics) An intermediate result that must be stored temporarily during the course of a sparse matrix computation.
- someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
adj
- Complicated or tricky; complex, difficult.
- Of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots.
- Of an austere or hard nature; rugged.
- Of a part of the body, a tree, etc.: full of knots (knobs or swellings); gnarled, knobbly.
- tangled in knots or snarls
- highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
- used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots
- making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
noun
adj
verb
noun
- A difficulty or problem.
- A mixture of spices applied to meat before it is barbecued.
- In the game of crown green bowls, any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
- An act of rubbing.
- Any substance designed to be applied by rubbing.
- (UK, naval slang) A loan.
- the act of rubbing or wiping
- an unforeseen obstacle
verb
- To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up or over.
- (transitive) To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.
- To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
- (intransitive) To be rubbed against something.
- (transitive) To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
- (transitive, bowls) To touch the jack with the bowl.
- scrape or rub as if to relieve itching
- move over something with pressure
- cause friction
noun
- A formidable difficulty.
- (materials science, physics, of a metal) Resistance to fracture when stressed, or the degree of such resistance.
- (psychologically, emotionally, or biologically) Fortitude; hardiness; mettle.
- the property of being big and strong
- impressive difficulty
- the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking
- enduring strength and energy
adj
- (figurative, of a problem or task) Very difficult.
- Resembling a mountain, especially in size; huge; towering.
- Having many mountains; characterized by mountains; of the nature of a mountain; rough (terrain); rocky.
- having hills and crags
- containing many mountains
- like a mountain in size and impressiveness
noun
- a complex or critical or unusual difficulty
- a job in an organization
- a condition or position in which you find yourself
- the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
- physical position in relation to the surroundings
- (slang) An outfit, garment, or look.
- The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.
- (US, film industry) An individual movie theater.
- Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances.
- A difficult or unpleasant set of circumstances; a problem.
- The place in which something is situated; a location.
- (UK) A position of employment; a post.
- The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings.
noun
- A puzzling situation or problem.
- (video games) A video game in which the player is presented with (usually abstract) puzzles to solve.
- One who is mysterious.
- A person who solves puzzles as a hobby.
- One who devises puzzles for others to solve.
- a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution
noun
- an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty
- an explosive mine hidden underground; explodes when stepped on or driven over
- A practical joke by which something is made to fall upon someone entering through a door, or the like.
- (by extension) An unforeseen source of danger; a pitfall.
- (military) An antipersonnel device deliberately hidden or disguised as a harmless object.
noun
- an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty
- a trap in the form of a concealed hole
- (figurative) A potential, unsuspected, hidden problem, hazard, or danger that is easily encountered but not immediately obvious.
- (computing) An antipattern.
- (literal) A type of trap consisting of a concealed pit in the ground, which the victim is supposed to fall into and not be able to get out from.
- (mining) Subsidence below ground in a mine, which can cause the ground level above to drop.
noun
- (countable) A difficult situation.
- (mining) Alternative form of jamb.
- (slang) Something enjoyable; a delightful situation or outcome.
- (slang) Sexual relations or the contemplation of them.
- (countable, by extension) An informal event where people brainstorm and collaborate on projects.
- (countable) A blockage, congestion, or immobilization.
- (countable, by extension, informal) A song; a track.
- (countable, roller derby) A play during which points can be scored.
- (countable, slang) That which one particularly prefers, desires, enjoys, or cares about.
- (UK, slang) Luck.
- (countable, climbing) Any of several manoeuvres requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.
- (Australia) The tree Acacia acuminata, with fruity-smelling hard timber.
- (countable, baseball) A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.
- (countable, basketball) A forceful dunk.
- (countable, popular music) An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.
- (Canada, slang) Balls, bollocks, courage, machismo.
- (less common in the US) A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts
- preserve of crushed fruit
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- a dense crowd of people
- deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems
verb
- (baseball) To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.
- To block or confuse a radio or radar signal by transmitting a more-powerful signal on the same frequency.
- (basketball) To dunk.
- To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.
- (Canada, informal) To give up on a date or some other joint endeavour; to stand up, chicken out, jam out.
- To render something unable to move.
- (colloquial) To be of high quality (especially for music).
- To get something stuck, often (though not necessarily) in a confined space.
- To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up".
- (music) To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).
- To brusquely force something into a space; to cram, to squeeze.
- (nautical, transitive) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
- (roller derby) To attempt to score points.
- crush or bruise
- interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
- block passage through
- get stuck and immobilized
- push down forcibly
- press tightly together or cram
- crowd or pack to capacity
noun
- puzzling complexity
- any disease or disorder that occurs during the course of (or because of) another disease
- the act or process of complicating
- a situation or condition that is complex or confused
- a development that complicates a situation
- (horology) A feature beyond basic time display in a timepiece.
- (medicine) A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.
- The act or process of complicating.
- The state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; complexity.
- A person who doesn't fit in with the main scheme of things; an interloper.
adv
adj
noun
verb
noun
- A difficult or tedious undertaking.
- Alternative form of taisch.
- A single action undertaken by a given agent.
- An objective.
- (computing) A process or execution of a program.
- Any piece of work done.
- A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
- a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
- any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
verb
noun
- (figuratively) A difficult task or challenge.
- (countable) An elevation of land of considerable dimensions rising more or less abruptly, forming a conspicuous figure in the landscape, usually having a small extent of surface at its summit.
- (cartomancy) The twenty-first Lenormand card.
- (countable, slang) A woman's large breast.
- (countable) Something very large in size or quantity; a huge amount; a great heap.
- (uncountable, now historical) Wine from Malaga made from grapes that grow on a mountain.
- a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
adj
noun
verb
adj
- Not simple, easy, or straightforward; complicated.
- (mathematics, algebra) Whose coefficients are complex numbers; defined over the field of complex numbers.
- Made up of multiple parts; composite; not simple.
- (geometry) A curve, polygon or other figure that crosses or intersects itself.
- (mathematics, mathematical analysis, of a function) Whose range is a subset of the complex numbers.
- (mathematics, of a number) Having the form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers and i is (by definition) the imaginary square root of −1.
- difficult to analyze or understand
- complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts
noun
- (psychology) A group of emotionally charged ideas or mental factors, unconsciously associated by the individual with a particular subject, arising from repressed instincts, fears, or desires and often resulting in mental abnormality.
- (taxonomy) A group of closely related species, often distinguished only with difficulty by traditional morphological methods.
- (linguistics) A multimorphemic word, one with several parts, one with affixes.
- A collection of buildings with a common purpose, such as a university or military base.
- An organized cluster of thunderstorms.
- (chemistry) A structure consisting of a central atom or molecule weakly connected to surrounding atoms or molecules, as for example coordination compounds in inorganic chemistry and protein complexes in biochemistry.
- (mathematics) A complex number.
- A fixed mental tendency or obsession.
- A cluster of wildfires burning in the same vicinity.
- An assemblage of related things; a collection.
- A network of interconnected systems.
- a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts
- a compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated
- a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
- (psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior
verb
noun
- Something that can be compared to a jigsaw puzzle.
- A power saw with fine teeth and a narrow blade which can cut curves in wood or metal.
- A jigsaw puzzle.
- a portable power saw with a reciprocating blade; can be used with a variety of blades depending on the application and kind of cut; generally have a plate that rides on the surface that is being cut
- fine-toothed power saw with a narrow blade; used to cut curved outlines
verb
noun
- An intricate complication; a problematic difficulty; a knotty or tangled situation.
- A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle.
- A growl, for example that of an angry or surly dog, or similar; grumbling sounds.
- A slow-moving traffic jam.
- The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
- A squabble.
- a vicious angry growl
- an angry vicious expression
- something jumbled or confused
verb
- (transitive) To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots.
- (transitive) To place in an embarrassing situation; to ensnare; to make overly complicated.
- (transitive) To complain angrily; to utter growlingly.
- (intransitive) To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.
- (transitive, intransitive) To be congested in traffic, or to make traffic congested.
- (intransitive) To growl angrily by gnashing or baring the teeth; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.
- (intransitive) To become entangled.
- To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface; to repoussé
- make a snarling noise or move with a snarling noise
- make more complicated or confused through entanglements
- twist together or entwine into a confusing mass
- utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone
adj
- Difficult to overcome, solve, or decide.
- Not settled, uncertain, of uncertain outcome; debatable, questionable, open to doubt.
- (sociology) Contributing (especially if subtly) to discrimination (such as racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, or ageism).
- making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
- open to doubt or debate
noun
noun
- a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem
- (British) A particularly difficult question or puzzle.
- a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor
- a person who habitually pretends to be something they are not
- Someone who, or something which, poses; a person who sets their body in a fixed position, such as for photography or painting.
- Someone who asks a question or sets a problem.
- (derogatory, slang) A poseur; someone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others.
noun
- a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem
- a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing
- a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf
- an adhesive label
- A wooden strip placed between courses of lumber to allow air circulation and to create a gap so the unit can be picked up with a forklift (also kiln sticker).
- (US, politics) A paster.
- (music) A small wooden rod in an organ which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing.
- (Internet) A cartoonish illustration of a character that represents an emotion or action, often accompanied by text, that may be superimposed on a digital image.
- An adhesive label or decal.
- A brand, label, or company, especially one making and distributing records.
- (military slang, World War I– World War II, if not earlier) A bayonet.
- One who sticks to something, or does not give up; a stayer.
- (by extension) The listed price (also sticker price).
- Something or someone that sticks (pierces, or adheres).
- (informal) A burr or seed pod that catches in fur or clothing.
- A price tag.
verb
noun
- A riddle, or a difficult problem.
- a difficult problem
- Riddles and puzzles, collectively.
- A style of literature characterized by obscurity and hints of transcendental meaning.
- A protein with three LIM domains (a conserved cysteine- and histidine-rich structure of two adjacent zinc fingers) at the C terminus that regulates protein phosphorylation.
- Mysteriousness; obscurity; a lack of clarity.
- Something or someone puzzling, mysterious or inexplicable.
- The Talaud kingfisher, Todiramphus enigma.
- Alternative letter-case form of Enigma.
- Any of species of Heliothis enigma of rare moths.
- Any of species of Oedaleonotus enigma of grasshoppers.
- something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
noun
- An unanswerable question or difficult puzzle, particularly one which leads to a deeper truth.
- A counterintuitive conclusion or outcome.
- (uncountable) The use of counterintuitive or contradictory statements (paradoxes) in speech or writing.
- A claim that two apparently contradictory ideas are true.
- A person or thing having contradictory properties.
- A thing involving contradictory yet interrelated elements that exist simultaneously and persist over time.
- (uncountable, philosophy) A state in which one is logically compelled to contradict oneself.
- An apparently self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa.
- (countable, uncountable, psychotherapy) The practice of giving instructions that are opposed to the therapist's actual intent, with the intention that the client will disobey or be unable to obey.
- (logic) a statement that contradicts itself
verb
- set a difficult problem or riddle
- explain a riddle
- spread or diffuse through
- separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
- speak in riddles
- pierce with many holes
- To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
- To put something through a riddle or sieve; to sieve; to sift.
- (transitive) To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.
- To fill with holes like a riddle.
- (figuratively) To fill or spread throughout; to pervade (with something destructive or weakening).
noun
- a difficult problem
- A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
- a coarse sieve (as for gravel)
- A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
- (religious) One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south.
- A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
- An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
noun
- A riddle or sieve.
- (aeronautics) A control surface on the vertical stabilizer of a fixed-wing aircraft or an autogyro. On some craft, the entire vertical stabilizer comprises the rudder. The rudder is controlled by foot-operated control pedals.
- The tail of an otter.
- (figurative) That which resembles a rudder as a guide or governor; that which guides or governs the course.
- (nautical) An underwater vane used to steer a vessel. The rudder is controlled by means of a wheel, tiller or other apparatus (modern vessels can be controlled even with a joystick or an autopilot).
- (nautical) steering mechanism consisting of a hinged vertical plate mounted at the stern of a vessel
- a hinged vertical airfoil mounted at the tail of an aircraft and used to make horizontal course changes
noun
- (rare) A complex question, whose wording hinders the ability to answer it correctly.
- (idiomatic) A question that attempts to elicit an answer in a certain way, usually incorrectly (i.e. that seems to have an obvious answer that is however incorrect), or a question that does not have a correct answer or that hides the real question or some difficulty.
noun
- (informal) Something that is difficult to figure out; a puzzle.
- An implement for cracking nuts.
- (ornithology) Any bird of the genus Nucifraga in the crow family.
- (by extension) Ellipsis of nutcracker doll.
- (US, New York City) A bootleg mixed drink made from a blend of alcohols and fruit juices.
- any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects
- a compound lever used to crack nuts open
- speckled birds that feed on nuts
noun
- something outstandingly difficult
- something that is extraordinary or remarkable or prominent
- someone who expresses contempt or indignation by uttering a snorting sound
- (slang) A punch on the nose.
- One who snorts.
- (slang) Something extraordinary or remarkable.
- (UK, slang) Something that is extremely difficult.
- (nautical, slang) A powerful gale.
noun
- A question or puzzle in which one is expected to fill in a missing part of something.
- (marketing) A product category that is used to complete a range or variety of a product line.
- A substitution.
- A temporary replacement for another, especially at a job.
- (music) A musical embellishment (usually percussion) that is added to connect musical phrases.
- Something added to increase the size of something; padding or filler.
- Something added to fill a gap.
- (mathematics) An intermediate result that must be stored temporarily during the course of a sparse matrix computation.
- someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
noun
adj
verb
noun
- A difficulty or problem.
- A mixture of spices applied to meat before it is barbecued.
- In the game of crown green bowls, any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
- An act of rubbing.
- Any substance designed to be applied by rubbing.
- (UK, naval slang) A loan.
- the act of rubbing or wiping
- an unforeseen obstacle
verb
- To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up or over.
- (transitive) To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.
- To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
- (intransitive) To be rubbed against something.
- (transitive) To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
- (transitive, bowls) To touch the jack with the bowl.
- scrape or rub as if to relieve itching
- move over something with pressure
- cause friction
noun
- A formidable difficulty.
- (materials science, physics, of a metal) Resistance to fracture when stressed, or the degree of such resistance.
- (psychologically, emotionally, or biologically) Fortitude; hardiness; mettle.
- the property of being big and strong
- impressive difficulty
- the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking
- enduring strength and energy
noun
- a complex or critical or unusual difficulty
- a job in an organization
- a condition or position in which you find yourself
- the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
- physical position in relation to the surroundings
- (slang) An outfit, garment, or look.
- The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.
- (US, film industry) An individual movie theater.
- Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances.
- A difficult or unpleasant set of circumstances; a problem.
- The place in which something is situated; a location.
- (UK) A position of employment; a post.
- The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings.
noun
- A puzzling situation or problem.
- (video games) A video game in which the player is presented with (usually abstract) puzzles to solve.
- One who is mysterious.
- A person who solves puzzles as a hobby.
- One who devises puzzles for others to solve.
- a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution
noun
- an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty
- an explosive mine hidden underground; explodes when stepped on or driven over
- A practical joke by which something is made to fall upon someone entering through a door, or the like.
- (by extension) An unforeseen source of danger; a pitfall.
- (military) An antipersonnel device deliberately hidden or disguised as a harmless object.
noun
- an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty
- a trap in the form of a concealed hole
- (figurative) A potential, unsuspected, hidden problem, hazard, or danger that is easily encountered but not immediately obvious.
- (computing) An antipattern.
- (literal) A type of trap consisting of a concealed pit in the ground, which the victim is supposed to fall into and not be able to get out from.
- (mining) Subsidence below ground in a mine, which can cause the ground level above to drop.
noun
- (countable) A difficult situation.
- (mining) Alternative form of jamb.
- (slang) Something enjoyable; a delightful situation or outcome.
- (slang) Sexual relations or the contemplation of them.
- (countable, by extension) An informal event where people brainstorm and collaborate on projects.
- (countable) A blockage, congestion, or immobilization.
- (countable, by extension, informal) A song; a track.
- (countable, roller derby) A play during which points can be scored.
- (countable, slang) That which one particularly prefers, desires, enjoys, or cares about.
- (UK, slang) Luck.
- (countable, climbing) Any of several manoeuvres requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.
- (Australia) The tree Acacia acuminata, with fruity-smelling hard timber.
- (countable, baseball) A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.
- (countable, basketball) A forceful dunk.
- (countable, popular music) An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.
- (Canada, slang) Balls, bollocks, courage, machismo.
- (less common in the US) A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts
- preserve of crushed fruit
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- a dense crowd of people
- deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems
verb
- (baseball) To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.
- To block or confuse a radio or radar signal by transmitting a more-powerful signal on the same frequency.
- (basketball) To dunk.
- To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.
- (Canada, informal) To give up on a date or some other joint endeavour; to stand up, chicken out, jam out.
- To render something unable to move.
- (colloquial) To be of high quality (especially for music).
- To get something stuck, often (though not necessarily) in a confined space.
- To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up".
- (music) To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).
- To brusquely force something into a space; to cram, to squeeze.
- (nautical, transitive) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
- (roller derby) To attempt to score points.
- crush or bruise
- interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
- block passage through
- get stuck and immobilized
- push down forcibly
- press tightly together or cram
- crowd or pack to capacity
noun
- puzzling complexity
- any disease or disorder that occurs during the course of (or because of) another disease
- the act or process of complicating
- a situation or condition that is complex or confused
- a development that complicates a situation
- (horology) A feature beyond basic time display in a timepiece.
- (medicine) A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.
- The act or process of complicating.
- The state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; complexity.
- A person who doesn't fit in with the main scheme of things; an interloper.
noun
- A difficult or tedious undertaking.
- Alternative form of taisch.
- A single action undertaken by a given agent.
- An objective.
- (computing) A process or execution of a program.
- Any piece of work done.
- A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
- a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
- any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
verb
noun
- (figuratively) A difficult task or challenge.
- (countable) An elevation of land of considerable dimensions rising more or less abruptly, forming a conspicuous figure in the landscape, usually having a small extent of surface at its summit.
- (cartomancy) The twenty-first Lenormand card.
- (countable, slang) A woman's large breast.
- (countable) Something very large in size or quantity; a huge amount; a great heap.
- (uncountable, now historical) Wine from Malaga made from grapes that grow on a mountain.
- a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
noun
- Something that can be compared to a jigsaw puzzle.
- A power saw with fine teeth and a narrow blade which can cut curves in wood or metal.
- A jigsaw puzzle.
- a portable power saw with a reciprocating blade; can be used with a variety of blades depending on the application and kind of cut; generally have a plate that rides on the surface that is being cut
- fine-toothed power saw with a narrow blade; used to cut curved outlines
verb
noun
- An intricate complication; a problematic difficulty; a knotty or tangled situation.
- A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle.
- A growl, for example that of an angry or surly dog, or similar; grumbling sounds.
- A slow-moving traffic jam.
- The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
- A squabble.
- a vicious angry growl
- an angry vicious expression
- something jumbled or confused
verb
- (transitive) To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots.
- (transitive) To place in an embarrassing situation; to ensnare; to make overly complicated.
- (transitive) To complain angrily; to utter growlingly.
- (intransitive) To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.
- (transitive, intransitive) To be congested in traffic, or to make traffic congested.
- (intransitive) To growl angrily by gnashing or baring the teeth; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.
- (intransitive) To become entangled.
- To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface; to repoussé
- make a snarling noise or move with a snarling noise
- make more complicated or confused through entanglements
- twist together or entwine into a confusing mass
- utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone
verb
- To perplex or puzzle.
- To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.
- To stun or amaze.
- To combine in a confused fashion; to mingle so as to make the parts indistinguishable.
- (sometimes proscribed) To make something worse.
- To cause to be ashamed; to abash.
- To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
- mistake one thing for another
- be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
noun
verb
- set a difficult problem or riddle
- explain a riddle
- spread or diffuse through
- separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
- speak in riddles
- pierce with many holes
- To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
- To put something through a riddle or sieve; to sieve; to sift.
- (transitive) To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.
- To fill with holes like a riddle.
- (figuratively) To fill or spread throughout; to pervade (with something destructive or weakening).
noun
- a difficult problem
- A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
- a coarse sieve (as for gravel)
- A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
- (religious) One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south.
- A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
- An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
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adj
noun
verb
adj
- (by extension) Very difficult.
- (often figuratively) Of an object: used to commit murder; capable of causing death; deadly, fatal.
- Of a person: intending or likely to commit murder; bloodthirsty, homicidal.
- Of, characterized by, or pertaining to murder or murderers.
- characteristic of or capable of or having a tendency toward killing another human being
adj
- Complicated or tricky; complex, difficult.
- Of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots.
- Of an austere or hard nature; rugged.
- Of a part of the body, a tree, etc.: full of knots (knobs or swellings); gnarled, knobbly.
- tangled in knots or snarls
- highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
- used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots
- making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
adj
- (figurative, of a problem or task) Very difficult.
- Resembling a mountain, especially in size; huge; towering.
- Having many mountains; characterized by mountains; of the nature of a mountain; rough (terrain); rocky.
- having hills and crags
- containing many mountains
- like a mountain in size and impressiveness
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noun
verb
adj
- Not simple, easy, or straightforward; complicated.
- (mathematics, algebra) Whose coefficients are complex numbers; defined over the field of complex numbers.
- Made up of multiple parts; composite; not simple.
- (geometry) A curve, polygon or other figure that crosses or intersects itself.
- (mathematics, mathematical analysis, of a function) Whose range is a subset of the complex numbers.
- (mathematics, of a number) Having the form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers and i is (by definition) the imaginary square root of −1.
- difficult to analyze or understand
- complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts
noun
- (psychology) A group of emotionally charged ideas or mental factors, unconsciously associated by the individual with a particular subject, arising from repressed instincts, fears, or desires and often resulting in mental abnormality.
- (taxonomy) A group of closely related species, often distinguished only with difficulty by traditional morphological methods.
- (linguistics) A multimorphemic word, one with several parts, one with affixes.
- A collection of buildings with a common purpose, such as a university or military base.
- An organized cluster of thunderstorms.
- (chemistry) A structure consisting of a central atom or molecule weakly connected to surrounding atoms or molecules, as for example coordination compounds in inorganic chemistry and protein complexes in biochemistry.
- (mathematics) A complex number.
- A fixed mental tendency or obsession.
- A cluster of wildfires burning in the same vicinity.
- An assemblage of related things; a collection.
- A network of interconnected systems.
- a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts
- a compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated
- a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
- (psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior
verb
adj
- Difficult to overcome, solve, or decide.
- Not settled, uncertain, of uncertain outcome; debatable, questionable, open to doubt.
- (sociology) Contributing (especially if subtly) to discrimination (such as racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, or ageism).
- making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
- open to doubt or debate