RIDDLE AND SHEARS

Meaning of RIDDLE AND SHEARS in English

noun plural but singular in construction

Etymology: riddle (III)

dialect Britain : sieve and shears

Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный 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
SHEARS — plural of shear present third singular of shear
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SHEARS — (n.) The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured; as, the shears of …
Английский словарь Webster
SHEARS — (n.) An apparatus for raising heavy weights, and especially for stepping and unstepping the lower masts of ships. It consists …
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SHEARS — (n.) A pair of wings.
Английский словарь Webster
SHEARS — (n.) Anything in the form of shears.
Английский словарь Webster
SHEARS — (n.) A shearing machine; a blade, or a set of blades, working against a resisting edge.
Английский словарь Webster
SHEARS — (n.) A similar instrument the blades of which are extensions of a curved spring, -- used for shearing sheep or …
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SHEARS — (n.) An instrument consisting of two blades, commonly with bevel edges, connected by a pivot, and working on both sides …
Английский словарь Webster
SHEARS — (n.) A cutting instrument.
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RIDDLE — (v. t.) To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled …
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RIDDLE — (v. t.) To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; …
Английский словарь Webster
SHEARS — ( n. ) The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured; as, the …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SHEARS — ( n. ) Anything in the form of shears.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SHEARS — ( n. ) An instrument consisting of two blades, commonly with bevel edges, connected by a pivot, and working on …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SHEARS — ( n. ) An apparatus for raising heavy weights, and especially for stepping and unstepping the lower masts of ships. …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SHEARS — ( n. ) A similar instrument the blades of which are extensions of a curved spring, -- used for shearing …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SHEARS — ( n. ) A shearing machine; a blade, or a set of blades, working against a resisting edge.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SHEARS — ( n. ) A pair of wings.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SHEARS — ( n. ) A cutting instrument.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
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
SHEARS — n. large scissor-like tool, clippers; cutting implement
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
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
SHEARS — noun a pair of wings. 2. shears ·noun a cutting instrument. 3. shears ·noun anything in the form of shears. …
Webster English vocab
RIDDLE — vi to speak ambiguously or enigmatically. 2. riddle ·noun a board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which …
Webster English vocab
SHEARS — (also a pair of ~ ) ■ plural noun a cutting instrument in which two blades move past each other, …
Concise Oxford 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
SHEARS — any of numerous large or large-bladed scissors, usually designed for cutting specific materials. See scissors.
Britannica English vocabulary
RIDDLE — deliberately enigmatic or ambiguous question requiring a thoughtful and often witty answer. The riddle is a form of guessing game …
Britannica English vocabulary
SHEARS — shears BrE AmE ʃɪəz AmE \ ʃɪ ə rz
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
SHEARS — / ʃɪəz; NAmE ʃɪrz/ noun [ pl. ] a garden tool like a very large pair of scissors, used for …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
RIDDLE — / ˈrɪdl; NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun 1. a question that is difficult to understand, and that has …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SHEARS — shears /ʃɪəz $ ʃɪrz/ BrE AmE noun [plural] a heavy tool for cutting, like a big pair of scissors: Sam …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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
SHEARS — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES pinking shears EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Because it is ripstop, and fraying is therefore limited, …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
RIDDLE — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES solve a riddle ▪ They still haven't really solved the riddle of how the …
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SHEARS — [plural] [noun] - very large scissorsgardening shearsdressmaking shearsThey use electric shears for sheep shearing.
Cambridge English vocab
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
SHEARS — стрижка, ножницы inclined throat shears ≈ гильотинные ножницы side trimming shears ≈ кромкообрезные ножницы - alligator shears - angle shears …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
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
SHEARS — стрижка, ножницы inclined throat shears — гильотинные ножницы side trimming shears — кромкообрезные ножницы - alligator shears - angle shears - bar shears - beam-and-channel shears - …
Англо-Русский научно-технический словарь
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
SHEARS — 1) ножницы 2) боковые стенки ( напр. станины ) 3) двунога с подъёмным блоком 4) поддержки хобота ( горизонтального консольно-фрезерного …
Англо-Русский словарь по машиностроению и автоматизации производства 2
SHEARS — 1) ножницы 2) боковые стенки (напр. станины) 3) двунога с подъёмным блоком 4) поддержки хобота (горизонтального консольно-фрезерного станка) • shears with C-type frame — открытые …
Англо-Русский словарь по машиностроению и автоматизации производства
SHEARS — стрижка, ножницы inclined throat shears ≈ гильотинные ножницы side trimming shears ≈ кромкообрезные ножницы - alligator shears - angle shears …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
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
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Webster's New International English Dictionary

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