RIDDLE

Meaning of RIDDLE in English

( 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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary. Пересмотренный полный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012

RIDDLE — Deliberately enigmatic or ambiguous question requiring a thoughtful and often witty answer. The riddle is a form of guessing game …
Английский словарь Британика
RIDDLE — I. ˈrid ə l noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English redels, redel, ridel, from Old English rǣdels, rǣdelse opinion, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
RIDDLE — (v. t.) To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled …
Английский словарь Webster
RIDDLE — (v. t.) To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; …
Английский словарь Webster
RIDDLE — ( v. t. ) To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
RIDDLE — ( v. t. ) To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
RIDDLE — riddle 1 /rid"l/ , n. , v. , riddled, riddling . n. 1. a question or statement so framed as …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
RIDDLE — I. ˈri-d ə l noun Etymology: Middle English redels, ridel, from Old English rǣdelse opinion, conjecture, riddle; akin to Old …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
RIDDLE — vi to speak ambiguously or enigmatically. 2. riddle ·noun a board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which …
Webster English vocab
RIDDLE — [rid.dle] n [ME redels, ridel, fr. OE raedelse opinion, conjecture, riddle; akin to OE raedan to interpret--more at read] (bef. …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
RIDDLE — deliberately enigmatic or ambiguous question requiring a thoughtful and often witty answer. The riddle is a form of guessing game …
Britannica English vocabulary
RIDDLE — / ˈrɪdl; NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun 1. a question that is difficult to understand, and that has …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
RIDDLE — I. rid ‧ dle 1 /ˈrɪdl/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Language: Old English ; Origin: rædelse 'opinion, guess, riddle' …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
RIDDLE — v. & n. --v.tr. (usu. foll. by with) 1 make many holes in, esp. with gunshot. 2 (in passive) fill; …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
RIDDLE — n. & v. --n. 1 a question or statement testing ingenuity in divining its answer or meaning. 2 a puzzling …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
RIDDLE — v. & n. v.tr. (usu. foll. by with) 1 make many holes in, esp. with gunshot. 2 (in passive) fill; …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
RIDDLE — n. & v. n. 1 a question or statement testing ingenuity in divining its answer or meaning. 2 a puzzling …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
RIDDLE — 1. n. & v. --n. 1. a question or statement testing ingenuity in divining its answer or meaning. 2 a …
Oxford English vocab
RIDDLE — ( riddles, riddling, riddled) 1. A riddle is a puzzle or joke in which you ask a question that seems …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
RIDDLE — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES solve a riddle ▪ They still haven't really solved the riddle of how the …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
RIDDLE — n. Deliberately enigmatic or ambiguous question requiring a thoughtful and often witty answer. The riddle is a form of guessing …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
RIDDLE — Noun. An act of urination. A shortening of 'jimmy riddle', the rhyming slang for 'piddle'. Cf. 'widdle' and 'piddle'.
Slang English vocab
RIDDLE — n. 25B6; noun an answer to the riddle : PUZZLE, conundrum, brain-teaser, (unsolved) problem, question, poser, enigma, mystery; informal stumper.
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
RIDDLE — v. 1 perforate, pepper, puncture, pierce, honeycomb The back of the bookcase was riddled with tiny worm-holes 2 penetrate, infest, …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
RIDDLE — I 1. сущ. загадка; трудная проблема There is no clear solution to this riddle. ≈ Нет ясного решения этой загадки. …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
RIDDLE — riddle.ogg _I 1. ʹrıdl n 1. загадка to solve a riddle - отгадать загадку to talk in riddles - говорить …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
RIDDLE — riddle I 1. сущ.загадка; трудная проблема There is no clear solution to this riddle. — Нет ясного решения этой загадки. …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
RIDDLE — _I 1. ʹrıdl n 1. загадка to solve a riddle - отгадать загадку to talk in riddles - говорить загадками …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
RIDDLE — I 1. сущ. загадка; трудная проблема There is no clear solution to this riddle. — Нет ясного решения этой загадки. …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
RIDDLE — I 1. сущ. загадка; трудная проблема There is no clear solution to this riddle. — Нет ясного решения этой загадки. Syn: puzzle, mystery 2. гл. 1) а) говорить …
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
RIDDLE — I 1. сущ. загадка; трудная проблема There is no clear solution to this riddle. ≈ Нет ясного решения этой загадки. …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
RIDDLE — n. enigma, rébus; (sieve) cribelle (-ar); (with shot) perforar
English interlingue dictionary
RIDDLE — tigmo
English-Visayan vocabulary
RIDDLE — I. noun see: read Date: before 12th century a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
RIDDLE — (v. i.) To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
Английский словарь Webster
RIDDLE — (v. t.) To explain; to solve; to unriddle.
Английский словарь Webster
RIDDLE — (n.) Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything …
Английский словарь Webster
RIDDLE — (n.) A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
Английский словарь Webster
RIDDLE — (n.) A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders …
Английский словарь Webster
RIDDLE — ( v. t. ) To explain; to solve; to unriddle.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
RIDDLE — ( v. i. ) To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
RIDDLE — ( n. ) Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
RIDDLE — ( n. ) A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
RIDDLE — v. solve, interpret; swell up, inflate; perforate, pierce; detonate, explode
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
RIDDLE — n. puzzle, question or statement presenting a problem to be solved; enigma, mystery; sieve, screen used for sifting
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
RIDDLE — n. Function: transitive verb Inflected Form: rid · dled ; rid · dling \ ' rid-li ŋ , ' ri-d …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
RIDDLE — n. Function: noun Etymology: Middle English riddil, from Old English hriddel; akin to Latin cribrum sieve, cernere to sift ― …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
RIDDLE — n. Function: verb Inflected Form: rid · dled ; rid · dling \ ' rid-li ŋ , ' ri-d ə …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
RIDDLE — n. Pronunciation: ' ri-d ə l Function: noun Etymology: Middle English redels, ridel, from Old English r ǣ delse opinion, …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
RIDDLE — ~ 1 ■ noun a question or statement phrased so as to require ingenuity in ascertaining its answer or meaning. …
Concise Oxford English vocab
RIDDLE — riddl|e, R\~ BrE AmE ˈrɪd ə l ▷ riddl|ed d ▷ riddl|es z ▷ riddl|ing ‿ɪŋ
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
RIDDLE — (~s, riddling, ~d) 1. A ~ is a puzzle or joke in which you ask a question that seems to …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
RIDDLE — (MAKE HOLES) [verb] [T] - to make a lot of holes in (something)The anti-aircraft guns riddled the the plane's wings …
Cambridge English vocab
RIDDLE
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
RIDDLE — Classification: City Located in: Oregon (OR) Total Population (2000): 1014 Total Housing Units (2000): 406 Land Area (square meters): 1728214 …
U.S. Gazetteer English vocabulary
RIDDLE — n. Function: noun Synonyms: MYSTERY , Chinese puzzle, closed book, conundrum, enigma, mystification, puzzle, puzzlement, why
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
RIDDLE — I . v. a. Solve, explain, un~. II . n. Enigma, puzzle, dark problem, puzzling question.
Dictionary of English Synonyms
RIDDLE — noun Synonyms: mystery , Chinese puzzle, closed book, conundrum, enigma, mystification, puzzle, puzzlement, why
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary
RIDDLE — See ↑ MYSTERIOUS 3
Longman Activator English vocab
RIDDLE — n. 25B6; verb his car was riddled by gunfire : PERFORATE, hole, pierce, puncture, pepper. he was riddled with cancer …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
RIDDLE — 1. noun мочеиспускание 2. v пронизывать (vt)
Dirty English-Russian vocab
RIDDLE — n. 1) to solve a ~ 2) ( misc. ) to speak in ~s
The Bbi Combinatory Dictionary of English - A Guide to Word Combinations
RIDDLE — n. conundrum, puzzle, enigma, poser, question, mystery, problem, brain-teaser or Brit brain-twister The cracker contained a whistle, paper hat, and …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
RIDDLE — It is known that all ancient nations, and especially Orientals, were fond of riddles. The riddles which the queen of …
Smith's Bible English Dictionary

Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary

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