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单词 jigsaw
释义
jigsaw
noun
uk
/ˈdʒɪɡ.sɔː/us
/ˈdʒɪɡ.sɑː/

jigsawnoun(PICTURE GAME)

[C]
(alsojigsaw puzzle)
apicturestuckontowoodorcardboardandcutintopiecesof differentshapesthat must bejoinedtogethercorrectlytoformthepictureagain:
拼图游戏
Wespentalleveningdoinga 1,000-piece jigsaw.我们花了整个晚上拼了一幅1000块的拼图。
picture of jigsaw
Douglas Sacha/Moment/GettyImages
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Miscellaneous games & activities
  • air hockey
  • beer pong
  • bran tub
  • buildering
  • bungee
  • cage diving
  • Frisbee
  • horseshoe
  • juggling
  • jump rope
  • keepy-uppy
  • korfball
  • LARP
  • pinball machine
  • raffle
  • stoop ball
  • story mode
  • subworld
  • sudoku
  • table football
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jigsawnoun(MYSTERY)

[S]
(alsojigsaw puzzle)
acomplicatedormysteriousproblemthat can only besolvedorexplainedbyconnectingseveralpiecesofinformation:
复杂难懂的事物，难解之谜
Thepolicearetryingtopiecetogetherthe jigsaw of how thedeadmanspenthis lasthours.警方试图弄清楚死者生前最后几小时在做什么。
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Confusion, confusing and feeling confused
  • addled
  • all of a doodahidiom
  • all over the placeidiom
  • alphabet soup
  • at seaidiom
  • discombobulation
  • disordered
  • disorganization
  • disorganized
  • disorientating
  • mush
  • muzzily
  • muzziness
  • mysterious
  • mysteriously
  • unaccountable
  • unaccountably
  • unexplained
  • wise
  • woolliness
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jigsawnoun(TOOL)

[C]
atoolwith anelectricmotorand athinmetalbladethat is used forcuttingcurvesinflatmaterials, such aswoodormetal
线锯；镂花锯；钢丝锯
picture of jigsaw
Riccardo_Mojana/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages
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Tools
  • -pronged
  • adjustable spanner
  • adze
  • Allen key
  • auger
  • awl
  • gimlet
  • gouge
  • grapnel
  • grappling iron
  • grindstone
  • guillotine
  • pincer
  • plunger
  • prong
  • rasp
  • razor knife
  • reamer
  • sander
  • trowel
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You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:

Building: carpentry & joinery
(Definition ofjigsawfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofjigsaw

jigsaw
The majority of scholars nevertheless read them uncritically, and then have immense trouble piecing together what are, after all, two entirely different jigsaws.
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Would you ask a man who had spent all his life in a field to go into the town and make jigsaws?
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He's ajigsawpuzzle, an imbrication of humanity, whose pieces belong to everyone.
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The basic pose is clear in the first, seen as if it had been cut from the front and profiles with ajigsaw.
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During the next ten years the final pieces of thejigsawwere put into place.
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Essentially three different types of modification to the childcarejigsawcould provide solutions.
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Over time, the various sections of the film began to take shape, like the pieces of ajigsawpuzzle.
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Ajigsawpuzzle that consisted of 80 pieces was used in the puzzle task.
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Students were assigned to dyads at random and were asked to perform ajigsawtask activity.
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Structural and contextual factors were another significant piece of the delegationjigsaw.
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Often, too, its intercepts are conclusive elements in the analyst'sjigsawpuzzle.
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Similar to face-to-face communication tasks, thejigsawtasks produced more negotiation of meaning episodes.
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What is more, politicians must cut their fashionable ideas to fit into thejigsawof their party doctrines.
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The students were put in pairs and asked to do a computer-mediatedjigsawtask.
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You go into a room and see a partially completedjigsawpuzzle on a table.
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