Mots en English pour 'the study of puzzles'
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noun
- 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.
- A riddle, or a difficult problem.
- 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.
- a difficult problem
- something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
noun
- A jigsaw puzzle.
- 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 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
- a puzzle in which words corresponding to numbered clues are to be found and written in to squares in the puzzle
- (informal, by extension) The grid of such a puzzle.
- (games, puzzles) A word puzzle in which interlocking words are entered usually horizontally and vertically into a grid based on clues given for each word.
noun
- One who devises puzzles for others to solve.
- A person who solves puzzles as a hobby.
- 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 particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution
verb
- explain a riddle
- spread or diffuse through
- set a difficult problem or riddle
- 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 verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
- a difficult problem
- 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.
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
adj
- (crosswording) Of a crossword puzzle, or a clue in such a puzzle, using, in addition to definitions, wordplay such as anagrams, homophones and hidden words to indicate solutions.
- (zoology) Serving as camouflage.
- (zoology) Living in a cavity or small cave.
- Involving use of a code or cipher.
- (biology, not comparable) Apparently identical, but actually genetically distinct.
- Mystified or of an obscure nature; not easy to perceive.
- Having hidden (unapparent) meaning.
- (zoology) Well camouflaged; having good camouflage.
- having a puzzling terseness
- of an obscure nature
- having a secret or hidden meaning
noun
- A mathematical puzzle played on a 5 × 5 grid.
- (slang) A banknote with a value of five units of currency.
- (religion) A person who gives five percent of their income or five hours a week of their time to charity (a reduction of ten percent tithing).
- (Islam) A Zaydi Shiite Muslim, who disagrees with the majority of Shiites on the identity of the Fifth Imam.
- (slang, by extension) The value in money that this represents.
- (colloquial) A clenched fist.
- a United States bill worth 5 dollars
noun
- A type of puzzle in which the aim is to reconstruct a picture that has been cut (originally, with a jigsaw) into many small interlocking pieces.
- (crosswording) An alphabetical jigsaw; a crossword in which the clues are not numbered and the solver must work out where each solution fits in the grid.
- a puzzle that requires you to reassemble a picture that has been mounted on a stiff base and cut into interlocking pieces
noun
- A kind of word puzzle involving pictures or typography that hint at the solution.
- A small device or gadget, the correct term for which is forgotten or unknown.
- (typography) A special ornamental typographical symbol, such as a bullet, an arrow, a pointing hand etc.
- (slang) Anything that can be thrown or swung with force against something else.
- (architecture) An architectural style of apartment building, where the second storey overhangs an area for parking cars.
- (informal) A silly, crazy or stupid person.
- a silly empty-headed person
noun
- (games) A game or puzzle involving logical thinking.
- (psychology) An attempt at using psychological manipulation against someone, in order to confuse them.
- any game designed to exercise the intellect
- deliberate actions of calculated psychological manipulation intended to intimidate or confuse (usually for competitive advantage)
noun
- 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.
- A riddle, or a difficult problem.
- 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.
- a difficult problem
- something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
noun
- A jigsaw puzzle.
- 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 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
- a puzzle in which words corresponding to numbered clues are to be found and written in to squares in the puzzle
- (informal, by extension) The grid of such a puzzle.
- (games, puzzles) A word puzzle in which interlocking words are entered usually horizontally and vertically into a grid based on clues given for each word.
noun
- One who devises puzzles for others to solve.
- A person who solves puzzles as a hobby.
- 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 particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution
noun
adj
- (crosswording) Of a crossword puzzle, or a clue in such a puzzle, using, in addition to definitions, wordplay such as anagrams, homophones and hidden words to indicate solutions.
- (zoology) Serving as camouflage.
- (zoology) Living in a cavity or small cave.
- Involving use of a code or cipher.
- (biology, not comparable) Apparently identical, but actually genetically distinct.
- Mystified or of an obscure nature; not easy to perceive.
- Having hidden (unapparent) meaning.
- (zoology) Well camouflaged; having good camouflage.
- having a puzzling terseness
- of an obscure nature
- having a secret or hidden meaning
verb
- explain a riddle
- spread or diffuse through
- set a difficult problem or riddle
- 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 verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
- a difficult problem
- 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 mathematical puzzle played on a 5 × 5 grid.
- (slang) A banknote with a value of five units of currency.
- (religion) A person who gives five percent of their income or five hours a week of their time to charity (a reduction of ten percent tithing).
- (Islam) A Zaydi Shiite Muslim, who disagrees with the majority of Shiites on the identity of the Fifth Imam.
- (slang, by extension) The value in money that this represents.
- (colloquial) A clenched fist.
- a United States bill worth 5 dollars
noun
- A type of puzzle in which the aim is to reconstruct a picture that has been cut (originally, with a jigsaw) into many small interlocking pieces.
- (crosswording) An alphabetical jigsaw; a crossword in which the clues are not numbered and the solver must work out where each solution fits in the grid.
- a puzzle that requires you to reassemble a picture that has been mounted on a stiff base and cut into interlocking pieces
noun
- A kind of word puzzle involving pictures or typography that hint at the solution.
- A small device or gadget, the correct term for which is forgotten or unknown.
- (typography) A special ornamental typographical symbol, such as a bullet, an arrow, a pointing hand etc.
- (slang) Anything that can be thrown or swung with force against something else.
- (architecture) An architectural style of apartment building, where the second storey overhangs an area for parking cars.
- (informal) A silly, crazy or stupid person.
- a silly empty-headed person
noun
- (games) A game or puzzle involving logical thinking.
- (psychology) An attempt at using psychological manipulation against someone, in order to confuse them.
- any game designed to exercise the intellect
- deliberate actions of calculated psychological manipulation intended to intimidate or confuse (usually for competitive advantage)
verb
- explain a riddle
- spread or diffuse through
- set a difficult problem or riddle
- 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 verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
- a difficult problem
- 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.
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