Cryptic

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Having hidden (unapparent) meaning.
2. sıfat Mystified or of an obscure nature; not easy to perceive.

   “I think the Original of this conceit might be, That the Students of Nature, conſcious to her more cryptick wayes of working, reſolve many ſtrange effects into the nearer efficiency of ſecond cauſes[…]”

3. sıfat Involving use of a code or cipher.
4. sıfat 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.
5. sıfat Well camouflaged; having good camouflage.

   “Lonomia caterpillars are extremely cryptic.”

6. sıfat Serving as camouflage.

   “cryptic colouring”

7. sıfat Apparently identical, but actually genetically distinct.

   “cryptic species”

8. sıfat Living in a cavity or small cave.

   “Much of the Permian Capitan reef was strongly differentiated into open surface and cryptic communities.”

9. isim A cryptic crossword puzzle.

   “He settled down to the cryptic in the Independent. He loved his crossword. It kept him mentally active, just as gossip did his wife.”

10. özel isim An epoch from 4567 to 4150 million years ago, a subdivision of the Prenectarian.