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İngilizce - Türkçe
delik deşik etmek
kalbura çevirmek
bilmece

Bilmeceyi çözmeye çalışmanın faydası yok. - It is no use trying to solve the riddle.

Tavuk neden yolun karşısına geçti? çok meşhur ve bolca cevabı olan bir İngiliz bilmecesidir. - Why did the chicken cross the road? is a very well-known English riddle, to which there are a multiplicity of answers.

{f} bulmaca çözmek
{i} bulmaca

Hiç kimse bulmacayı çözemedi. - No one was ever able to solve the riddle.

Bu bulmacayı nasıl çözeceğini biliyor musun? - Do you know how to solve this riddle?

elek/bilmece
delmek
esrar
kalburlamak
merak konusu
kalburdan geçirmek
(with ile) delik deşik etmek
{f} delik deşik et
giz

Rusya, bir muammanın içindeki gizemle sarılmış bir bilmece. - Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

{f} elemek
delik deşik et(mek)
{i} kalbur
{i} sır
{i} muamma

Rusya, bir muammanın içindeki gizemle sarılmış bir bilmece. - Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

{f} eleştirmek
{f} üstü kapalı konuşmak
kalburla elemek
{f} bilmecenin cevabını söylemek
{f} bilmece gibi konuşmak
{f} doğruluğunu sınamak
{f} delik deşik etmek
{f} sırrını çözmek
{f} kalbura çevirmek
riddle çöz/ele
İngilizce - İngilizce
to put something through a sieve

You have to riddle the gravel before you lay it on the road.

to fill with holes

The shots from his gun began to riddle the target.

A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature, such as "It's black, and white, and red all over. What is it?"
to solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question

Riddle me this...., meaning Answer the following question.

to fill or spread throughout; to pervade

Your argument is riddled with errors.

{v} to solve, sift, run through a sieve
{f} solve, interpret; swell up, inflate; perforate, pierce; detonate, explode
To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot
If someone riddles something with bullets or bullet holes, they fire a lot of bullets into it. Unknown attackers riddled two homes with gunfire. Deliberately enigmatic or ambiguous question requiring a thoughtful and often witty answer. The riddle is a form of guessing game that has been a part of the folklore of most cultures from ancient times. Western scholars generally recognize two main kinds of riddle: the descriptive riddle, usually describing an animal, person, plant, or object in an intentionally enigmatic manner (thus an egg is "a little white house without door or window"); and the shrewd or witty question. A classical Greek example of the latter type is "What is the strongest of all things?" "Love: iron is strong, but the blacksmith is stronger, and love can subdue the blacksmith
A coarse sieve used for separating chaff from corn, sand from gravel, ashes from cinders
To speak ambiguously or enigmatically
set a difficult problem or riddle; "riddle me a riddle"
a sieve; a puzzle
pierce many times; "The bullets riddled his body"
Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling
separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
a sieve
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
To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel
a coarse sieve (as for gravel)
A riddle is a puzzle or joke in which you ask a question that seems to be nonsense but which has a clever or amusing answer
a verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature
To explain; to solve; to unriddle
explain a riddle
speak in riddles
explain a riddle speak in riddles pierce many times; "The bullets riddled his body"
You can describe something as a riddle if people have been trying to understand or explain it but have not been able to. Scientists claimed yesterday to have solved the riddle of the birth of the Universe. = mystery
a coarse sieve (as for gravel) a difficult problem set a difficult problem or riddle; "riddle me a riddle" explain a riddle speak in riddles pierce many times; "The bullets riddled his body" separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
1 Riddiksbuck; worth about 15 eyes; common currency of small-scale business transactions
a coarse sieve (as for gravel) a difficult problem set a difficult problem or riddle; "riddle me a riddle"
(from Old English roedel, from roedan meaning "to give council" or "to read"): A universal form of literature in which a puzzling question or a conundrum is presented to the reader The reader is often challenged to solve this enigma, which requires ingenuity in discovering the hidden meaning A riddle may involve puns, symbolism, or unusual imagery
a difficult problem
{i} puzzle, question or statement presenting a problem to be solved; enigma, mystery; sieve, screen used for sifting
A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it
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