(v.) Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill in making.
(v.) The state of being puzzled; perplexity; as, to be in a puzzle.
(v. t.) To perplex; to confuse; to embarrass; to put to a stand; to nonplus.
(v. t.) To make intricate; to entangle.
(v. t.) To solve by ingenuity, as a puzzle; -- followed by out; as, to puzzle out a mystery.
(v. i.) To be bewildered, or perplexed.
(v. i.) To work, as at a puzzle; as, to puzzle over a problem.
Example Sentences:
(1) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
(2) Our data and the model developed to interpret them in terms of fluctuations provide an explanation of the puzzling sharp reduction of water order near the chain-ordering phase transition.
(3) And David Ngog was a pointless signing too – one which puzzled us all.
(4) That's so far from how my mind works that I find it puzzling.
(5) This latest one continued developer Revolution Software’s run, sending you on the hunt for a stolen painting with puzzles and a well-worked storyline to hold your attention.
(6) Unexplained physical distress, when associated with alexithymia, becomes a diagnostic puzzle leading to prolonged investigation, ineffective treatment, and psychiatric referral.
(7) This scheme is used to rationalize previously puzzling data about the enzyme mechanism.
(8) With wearable computing just around the corner cracking integration with you, and indeed the organic-body, is critical for Apple and a final piece in the puzzle.
(9) Leanne Bowden, a mother of three on her way home on the school run, looks puzzled by the inquiry.
(10) The treatment of obesity remains a puzzling challenge because long-term maintenance of weight loss--one of the most suitable goals--is rarely achieved with conventional methods.
(11) It includes a reference to Banks's puzzling repeated insistence in media interviews that he "did not come up the river in a cabbage boat".
(12) In his letter responding to the resignation, the prime minister calls himself “puzzled and disappointed”.
(13) A persistent puzzle in our understanding of hemostasis has been the absence of hemorrhagic symptoms in the majority of patients with Hageman trait, the hereditary deficiency of Hageman factor (factor XII).
(14) "What was popular then was the puzzle: such qualities as psychological truth or even atmospheric location were secondary to it.
(15) A more pronounced decrease was produced by subjects working on puzzles than those working on mental calculation and by subjects working on easy tasks than those working on difficult tasks when the easy preceded the difficult ones.
(16) "We find it puzzling that the Department of Health would want a group that is opposed to abortion and provides no sexual health services on its sexual health forum."
(17) This MA lag of at least 2 years is consistent with the MA lag previously found on strategic games and puzzles.
(18) The boys attempted to solve two different sets of 10 find-a-word puzzles, one set following exposure to solvable puzzles, and one set following exposure to insolvable puzzles.
(19) That’s where blaming government failure fits into his ideological jigsaw puzzle.
(20) Some hypotheses about the cause of schizophrenia are based on the puzzling tendency for mental illness to affect the same sex when two close relatives become psychiatrically ill. Sex-concordance rates were examined in 71 schizophrenic probands, who had at least one first-degree relative suffering from the same disorder, in order to test this tendency in a population of recently admitted patients.
Quiz
Definition:
(n.) A riddle or obscure question; an enigma; a ridiculous hoax.
(n.) One who quizzes others; as, he is a great quiz.
(n.) An odd or absurd fellow.
(n.) An exercise, or a course of exercises, conducted as a coaching or as an examination.
(v. t.) To puzzle; to banter; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.
(v. t.) To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.
(v. t.) To instruct in or by a quiz. See Quiz, n., 4.
(v. i.) To conduct a quiz. See Quiz, n., 4.
Example Sentences:
(1) When Jones was a governor, regular board meetings were held in which they could quiz management about editorial decisions ,as former chairman such as the now deceased Marmaduke Hussey regularly did.
(2) The quiz mode has multiple-choice questions and answers, accompanied by images.
(3) For a "free form" class project in senior year I did a quiz show-style performance piece based on her life ("Ted Hughes cheated on Sylvia Plath: True or False?")
(4) He says his job is to ‘base search on really understanding what the language means’.The most successful example of natural-language processing to date is IBM’s computer Watson, which in 2011 went on the US quiz show Jeopardy and won (shown above).
(5) USvTh3m, which aims to quickly develop humorous interactive quizzes and games based current news and events, developed the 13-question quiz following the Daily Mail's attack on Labour leader Ed Miliband's late father .
(6) By using Palmore's Facts on Ageing Quiz, it was determined that client selection did in fact make a difference vis-à-vis learning outcomes about ageing and the aged.
(7) Data were gathered using a Social Distance Scale, Goals of Life Index, Facts on Aging Quiz, and Aging Semantic Differentials.
(8) It remains to be seen what Ross, 49, will do next, although he has said he will continue to host the Bafta film awards, which he presented on BBC1 last month, as well as BBC1's Comic Relief and his regular end of year appearances on Channel 4's Big Fat Quiz of the Year, which is produced by his production company, HotSauce, which also makes his BBC1 show.
(9) A seven-word terminology quiz made up of words from the CUE form was also enclosed.
(10) , a US quiz show that has broadcast there for decades, will televise a contest between two of its past champions and a super-intelligent computer.
(11) Toksvig is standing down as the host of BBC Radio 4’s comedy show The News Quiz to set up the Women’s Equality party , which plans to field candidates in the 2020 general election.
(12) The education committee held hearings to quiz Spielman , and its report concludes that she “did not demonstrate sufficient vision or show the leadership abilities we feel will be needed.
(13) It followed a celebrity edition of the Channel 4 quiz 15 to One, hosted by Adam Hills, which had 1.6 million viewers (7.9%) between 8pm and 9pm.
(14) ITV's live football coverage on Wednesday afternoon will run from 3.30pm to 6.10pm, dropping, among other shows, the Bradley Walsh quiz The Chase.
(15) However, one of the answers was "sailcloth", which viewers were unable to identify because it ends with H rather than T. The Quiz call presenter apologised to viewers and Five later described it as "an innocent yet stupid mistake".
(16) UsvsTh3m , the Daily Mirror publisher's Buzzfeed-style social content offering, is expected to reach 3 million unique users in October, thanks largely to interactive quiz "How much are you hated by the Daily Mail?"
(17) It has a chess club, cake sales, regular pub quiz nights and an internal puzzle newsletter called Kryptos.
(18) It was a quiz question: should Russia have surrendered and saved countless lives?
(19) The Palestinian comedy team Watan a Watar have enjoyed huge success with their take on an Isis propaganda video featuring a roadblock and a quiz: incorrect answers mean instant execution but these jolly, bumbling jihadis win points to get them to Paradise.
(20) Identifying Donald Trump's foreign policy – a quiz with no right answers | Lawrence Douglas Read more No student of history, Trump may or may not have been aware that his attack on Syria coincided with the 100th anniversary of America’s entry into the first world war .