riddle
پہیلی
definition
verb
he who knows not how to riddle
speak in or pose riddles.
his car was riddled by sniper fire
make many holes in (someone or something), especially with gunshot.
noun
Shorter answers every other question with a riddle and punctuates his conversation with statements such as ‘The only constant is change.’
a question or statement intentionally phrased so as to require ingenuity in ascertaining its answer or meaning, typically presented as a game.
For inside the mill, the shelling stones began to turn, the riddles (large-meshed sieves) rhythmically shook and the millstones ground round and round.
a large coarse sieve, especially one used for separating ashes from cinders or sand from gravel.
translation of 'riddle'
noun
پہیلی
example
A set of hypotheses has been suggested to explain this exceptional 'riddle' of fish reproduction, but as yet they remain untested.
Whatever helps understand this 'riddle' is significant, I am pleased that I, in a small way, did something with it.
Answer the 'riddle' , and your life shall be spared.
Each of us is a 'riddle' wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
He regarded Haley with a critical eye, as if figuring out a 'riddle' .
Her echo bounced from wall to wall, penetrating his ears like an unsolvable 'riddle' .
the 'riddle' of her death
Shorter answers every other question with a 'riddle' and punctuates his conversation with statements such as ‘The only constant is change.’
She was pleased at herself as if she had just figured out a 'riddle' .
The first answer to the 'riddle' of existence, therefore, is that substance exists, and exists necessarily.
Midnight had arrived, but Leander still hadn't figured out the 'riddle' .
I then re-sieve it through a maggot 'riddle' to remove the lumps.
Perhaps, to answer the 'riddle' posed by the Palace substitution script, we should take a similar path.
Rob's words echoed through my brain, and they sounded like some cryptic 'riddle' .
His experiments on the lift and drag of an aircraft helped answer the 'riddle' of how birds fly and led to new wing designs.
Cold comfort for the grieving Parks, who is now trying to solve the 'riddle' of his granddaughter's death.
But no one has answered the related 'riddle' : Who wins if both sides bring their voters to the polls in record numbers?
'riddle' me this then
Understanding exactly what capital is unlocks the 'riddle' of the market system.
Here's a zen 'riddle' : How lumpy must a sauce be before it can be called a vegetable?
They were words she could not understand, but still she searched among them for some clue, some answer to the 'riddle' of her life.
the 'riddle' of her death
Earlier this year, it had sat for weeks to unravel the 'riddle' of the sinking.
But Grinsell was writing before the invention of radiocarbon dating - surely here was the chance to answer the 'riddle' of the round skull?
'riddle' me this then
Bilbo's next 'riddle' is answered but he has trouble with Gollum's.
The grieving friends of a York man who drowned in mysterious circumstances have launched a campaign to solve the 'riddle' of his death.
he who knows not how to 'riddle'
he who knows not how to 'riddle'
Whatever the answer to the 'riddle' of quantum reality, the correct assessment of the role and meaning of observers in the Universe must await the outcome of the confrontation of the Cosmos with the quantum.
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