riddle
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
Here's a riddle: It's black, and white, and red all over. What is it?
Đồng nghĩa: enigma, conundrum, brain-teaser
- 2.
An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
- 3.
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.
- 4.
A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
- 5.
(obsolete)A curtain; bedcurtain.
- 6.
(religious) One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south.
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verb- 1.
(intransitive)To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
- 2.
(transitive)To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.
Riddle me this.
Đồng nghĩa: decipher, puzzle out, unriddle, absolve, decipher, get to the bottom of, iron out, meliorate, puzzle out, ravel, reason out, resolve, riddle, sleuth, solve, tease out, think out, unpuzzle, unravel, unriddle, unsolve, upsolve, work out, Any from Thesaurus:untangle
- 3.
To put something through a riddle or sieve; to sieve; to sift.
You have to riddle the gravel before you lay it on the road.
- 4.
To fill with holes like a riddle.
The shots from his gun began to riddle the targets.
- 5.
(figuratively)To fill or spread throughout; to pervade (with something destructive or weakening).
Your argument is riddled with errors.
Đồng nghĩa: litter
- 6.
(obsolete, transitive)To plait.
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From Middle English redel, redels, from Old English rǣdels, rǣdelse (counsel, opinion, imagination, riddle), from *rādislī (counsel, conjecture). Analyzable as rede + -le. Akin to rǣdan. Cognate with raadsel, Rätsel.