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Meanings of riddle in inglês
Statement or question or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved.
Any problem where the answer is very complex, possibly unsolvable without deep investigation.
Sinônimos
Examples for "screen"
Examples for "screen"
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Diplomatic sources say the application process helps Israel screen potential security threats.
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Almost instantly, a new line of text scrolled across the security screen:
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Each screen showed a different feed, a different point in the recording.
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The new screen is described in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.
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The main view screen flickered and a million stars snapped into focus.
Usage of riddle in inglês
1
Not so; you used the riddle and I but spoke in kind.
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For two days I'd carried the riddle of Project Nemesis inside me.
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How had he not been able to work out this riddle earlier?
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And in the riddle of Cleobulus, one of the seven wise men:
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One day Ish heard him asking a riddle of the other children.
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The return of the dead is the eternal riddle of the living.
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Nevertheless, intimacy represents an enigmatic riddle for the majority of these men.
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In the Berkeley Court hotel in Dublin yesterday, it was riddle time.
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All questioning was vain; her heart gave no solution of the riddle.
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He opened the door wider to the nocturnal riddle of the house.
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We can't forget to carry that forward, one riddle to the next.
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In this way I made a start at working out the riddle.
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There is something, after all, in the unguessed riddle of the Sphinx.
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This error alone gave him now an opportunity to unravel the riddle.
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Once a supernational riddle appears, it's really up to the technical types-
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He himself did not find the solution of the riddle at once.
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Translations for riddle
Riddle through the time
Riddle across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Less common