Riddle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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?”

2. isim An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
3. fiil To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
4. fiil To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.

   “Riddle me this.”

5. isim 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.
6. isim A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
7. fiil 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.”

8. fiil To fill with holes like a riddle.

   “The shots from his gun began to riddle the targets.”

9. fiil To fill or spread throughout; to pervade (with something destructive or weakening).

   “Your argument is riddled with errors.”

10. isim A curtain; bedcurtain.
11. isim One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south.
12. fiil To plait.
13. özel isim A surname.
14. özel isim An unincorporated community in Owyhee County, Idaho.
15. özel isim An unincorporated community in Ohio Township, Crawford County, Indiana, named after George Washington Riddle.
16. özel isim A city in Douglas County, Oregon.
17. özel isim An unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia.