Riddle

['rɪd(ə)l] or ['rɪdl]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a coarse sieve (as for gravel).

(noun.) a difficult problem.

(verb.) set a difficult problem or riddle; 'riddle me a riddle'.

(verb.) explain a riddle.

(verb.) speak in riddles.

(verb.) pierce with many holes; 'The bullets riddled his body'.

(verb.) separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff.

芭比整理--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) 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.

(n.) A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.

(v. t.) To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.

(v. t.) To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.

(n.) Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.

(v. t.) To explain; to solve; to unriddle.

(v. i.) To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.

手打:肖恩

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Enigma, puzzle, dark problem, puzzling question.

安尼塔整理

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Puzzle, enigma, ambiguity, problem, paradox

ANT:Solution, explanation, statement, proposition, axiom

手打:玛丽安

解釋/意思:

n. an obscure description of something which the hearer is asked to name: a puzzling question: an enigma: anything puzzling even a person.—v.i. to make riddles: to speak obscurely: to plait.—adj. Ridd′le-like (Shak.) like a riddle or enigma.—ns. Ridd′ler; Ridd′ling (Spens.) skill in explaining riddles.—adv. Ridd′lingly.

n. a large sieve for separating coarser materials from finer.—v.t. to separate with a riddle as grain from chaff: to make full of holes like a riddle as with shot.—n.pl. Ridd′lings siftings.

編輯:卡罗尔