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{
"term": "puzzle",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"image": "data/images/pu/puzzles.png",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a game, etc. that you have to think about carefully in order to answer it or do it",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a crossword puzzle"
},
{
"text": "a book of puzzles for children"
}
],
"topics": ["Games and toys"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["crossword", "jigsaw", "logic"],
"verb + puzzle": ["complete", "do", "put together"],
"puzzle + noun": ["book", "game", "piece"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "something that is difficult to understand or explain",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The deeper meaning of the poem remains a puzzle."
},
{
"text": "The detectives were beginning to solve the murder. All the pieces of the puzzle were falling neatly into place."
},
{
"text": "The origin of the word is something of a puzzle."
},
{
"text": "The puzzle remains of what happened to the ship."
},
{
"text": "There is a puzzle about how the plant first came to Britain."
},
{
"text": "The police didn't know what the message meant, but it was another piece of the puzzle."
},
{
"text": "They're trying to solve the puzzle of how gravity works."
},
{
"text": "Traces of explosives found among the wreckage were the key to the puzzle."
},
{
"text": "They knew who the killer was, but there were still some gaps in the puzzle."
}
],
"synonyms": "mystery",
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["great", "perplexing", "scientific"],
"verb + puzzle": ["crack", "figure out", "piece together"],
"puzzle + verb": ["remain"],
"preposition": ["puzzle about", "puzzle of"],
"phrases": [
"a piece of the puzzle",
"the key to a puzzle",
"a piece in the puzzle"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a picture printed on cardboard (= very thick, stiff card) or wood, that has been cut up into a lot of small pieces of different shapes that you have to fit together again",
"labels": "(especially North American English)British English",
"examples": [],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["crossword", "jigsaw", "logic"],
"verb + puzzle": ["complete", "do", "put together"],
"puzzle + noun": ["book", "game", "piece"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈpʌzl/",
"audio": "pu/puzzle/puzzle__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈpʌzl/",
"audio": "pu/puzzle/puzzle__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late 16th cent. (as a verb): of unknown origin."
}