riddle
IPA: rˈɪdʌɫ
noun
- A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
- An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
- 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.
- A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
- (obsolete) A curtain; bedcurtain.
- (religious) One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south.
- A surname.
- A city in Douglas County, Oregon, United States.
verb
- To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
- (transitive) To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.
- To put something through a riddle or sieve; to sieve; to sift.
- To fill with holes like a riddle.
- To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.
- (transitive, obsolete) To plait.
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Examples of "riddle" in Sentences
- But the riddle is usually about, what is the truth?
- The riddle is solvable by pure logic without assumptions.
- Another riddle is found and Batman deduces that Gordon will die.
- He concluded, as has Winchester, that the riddle is of less consequence these days.
- The second, more interesting riddle is not yet adequately resolved: what does Mikel actually do?
- RoboPanda says: there must be a scene in the movie in which an ancient riddle is solved or a booby trap avoided through knowledge of show tunes.
- The "riddle" is here identical with the "parable," only that the former refers to the obscurity, the latter to the likeness of the figure to the thing compared.
- Not only do the congregants not understand that the solution to the riddle is the basic tenet of their faith, but more important, they fail to recognize that Alroy is quite literally the answer to their prayers.
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