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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
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
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
- something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
- Riddles and puzzles, collectively.
- A riddle, or a difficult problem.
- a difficult problem
- 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.
noun
- something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
- a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie
- A religious truth not understandable by the application of human reason alone (without divine aid).
- (archaic outside Eastern Orthodoxy) A sacrament.
- (Catholicism) A particular event or series of events in the life of Christ.
- A mystery play.
- (chiefly in the plural) A secret religious celebration, admission to which was usually through initiation.
- An account, story, book, film, or play, often with the theme of crime or murder, with a surprise ending that explains all the strange events that have occurred.
- Something secret or unexplainable; an unknown.
- Someone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature.
noun
- something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
- information known only to a special group
- something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on)
- Something not understood or known.
- (Christianity, often in the plural) Any prayer spoken inaudibly and not aloud; especially, one of the prayers in the Tridentine Mass, immediately following the "orate, fratres", said inaudibly by the celebrant.
- The key or principle by which something is made clear; the knack.
- (countable) A piece of knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden.
- (uncountable) Private seclusion.
- (historical) A form of steel skullcap.
adj
- designed to elude detection
- having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding
- the next to highest level of official classification for documents
- not open or public; kept private or not revealed
- not openly made known
- indulging only covertly
- (of information) given in confidence or in secret
- conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
- hidden from general view or use
- communicated covertly
- not expressed
- Being or kept hidden.
verb
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
- (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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- something jumbled or confused
- a vicious angry growl
- an angry vicious expression
- 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.
- An intricate complication; a problematic difficulty; a knotty or tangled situation.
- A slow-moving traffic jam.
- The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
- A squabble.
verb
- 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
- (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
noun
- something jumbled or confused
- a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven
- Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria.
- A complicated or confused state or condition.
- (Scotland) Any long hanging thing, even a lanky person.
- An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
- (medicine) A paired helical fragment of tau protein found in a nerve cell and associated with Alzheimer's disease.
- (mathematics) A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times.
- A form of art which consists of sections filled with repetitive patterns.
- (in the plural) An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea.
- A tangled twisted mass.
verb
- disarrange or rumple; dishevel
- twist together or entwine into a confusing mass
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
- tangle or complicate
- (transitive) To mix together or intertwine.
- (intransitive) To become mixed together or intertwined.
- (intransitive, figurative) To enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
- (transitive) To catch and hold.
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
adj
adv
noun
- A kind of word puzzle in which a series of words are clued, and individual letters from the clued word spell out one or more additional words.
- A kind of word puzzle, whose solution forms an anagram of a quotation, with its initial letters often forming the name of the person quoted.
- A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message.
- A poem in Hebrew in which successive lines or verses start with consecutive letters of the alphabet.
- a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across
- verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message
adj
noun
- A clue.
- A small, barely detectable amount.
- An implicit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
- (databases) An instruction to the database engine as to how a query should be executed, for example whether to use an index or not.
- (computing) Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should be distorted in order to produce, at specific sizes, a visually appealing pixel-based rendering; an instance of hinting.
- a just detectable amount
- a slight indication
- an indirect suggestion
- an indication of potential opportunity
- a slight but appreciable amount
intj
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
adj
verb
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
- (literally) A box containing a jigsaw puzzle.
- A similar device or cage that can be opened by means of levers, latches, etc., used to test the learning behaviour of animals.
- (figurative) Something that is puzzling; an enigma; (narratology, also attributive) a complex story that is gradually revealed, often driven by a central myth.
- A box that cannot be opened by the usual obvious means, and therefore challenges a person to find the correct way to open it.
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
noun
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 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
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
- something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
- Riddles and puzzles, collectively.
- A riddle, or a difficult problem.
- a difficult problem
- 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.
noun
- something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
- a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie
- A religious truth not understandable by the application of human reason alone (without divine aid).
- (archaic outside Eastern Orthodoxy) A sacrament.
- (Catholicism) A particular event or series of events in the life of Christ.
- A mystery play.
- (chiefly in the plural) A secret religious celebration, admission to which was usually through initiation.
- An account, story, book, film, or play, often with the theme of crime or murder, with a surprise ending that explains all the strange events that have occurred.
- Something secret or unexplainable; an unknown.
- Someone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature.
noun
- something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
- information known only to a special group
- something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on)
- Something not understood or known.
- (Christianity, often in the plural) Any prayer spoken inaudibly and not aloud; especially, one of the prayers in the Tridentine Mass, immediately following the "orate, fratres", said inaudibly by the celebrant.
- The key or principle by which something is made clear; the knack.
- (countable) A piece of knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden.
- (uncountable) Private seclusion.
- (historical) A form of steel skullcap.
adj
- designed to elude detection
- having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding
- the next to highest level of official classification for documents
- not open or public; kept private or not revealed
- not openly made known
- indulging only covertly
- (of information) given in confidence or in secret
- conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
- hidden from general view or use
- communicated covertly
- not expressed
- Being or kept hidden.
verb
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- something jumbled or confused
- a vicious angry growl
- an angry vicious expression
- 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.
- An intricate complication; a problematic difficulty; a knotty or tangled situation.
- A slow-moving traffic jam.
- The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
- A squabble.
verb
- 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
- (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
noun
- something jumbled or confused
- a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven
- Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria.
- A complicated or confused state or condition.
- (Scotland) Any long hanging thing, even a lanky person.
- An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
- (medicine) A paired helical fragment of tau protein found in a nerve cell and associated with Alzheimer's disease.
- (mathematics) A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times.
- A form of art which consists of sections filled with repetitive patterns.
- (in the plural) An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea.
- A tangled twisted mass.
verb
- disarrange or rumple; dishevel
- twist together or entwine into a confusing mass
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
- tangle or complicate
- (transitive) To mix together or intertwine.
- (intransitive) To become mixed together or intertwined.
- (intransitive, figurative) To enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
- (transitive) To catch and hold.
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
adj
adv
noun
- A kind of word puzzle in which a series of words are clued, and individual letters from the clued word spell out one or more additional words.
- A kind of word puzzle, whose solution forms an anagram of a quotation, with its initial letters often forming the name of the person quoted.
- A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message.
- A poem in Hebrew in which successive lines or verses start with consecutive letters of the alphabet.
- a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across
- verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message
adj
noun
- A clue.
- A small, barely detectable amount.
- An implicit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
- (databases) An instruction to the database engine as to how a query should be executed, for example whether to use an index or not.
- (computing) Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should be distorted in order to produce, at specific sizes, a visually appealing pixel-based rendering; an instance of hinting.
- a just detectable amount
- a slight indication
- an indirect suggestion
- an indication of potential opportunity
- a slight but appreciable amount
intj
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
adj
verb
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
- (literally) A box containing a jigsaw puzzle.
- A similar device or cage that can be opened by means of levers, latches, etc., used to test the learning behaviour of animals.
- (figurative) Something that is puzzling; an enigma; (narratology, also attributive) a complex story that is gradually revealed, often driven by a central myth.
- A box that cannot be opened by the usual obvious means, and therefore challenges a person to find the correct way to open it.
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
noun
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
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