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单词 jigsaw puzzle
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jigsaw puzzle
b. In full, jigsaw puzzle. A puzzle formed by cutting into small irregular pieces (originally with a jig-saw) a picture mounted on a sheet of wood, cardboard, or the like. (Now the usual sense.) So jigsaw map. Also transferred and figurative.
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1909 Daily Mirror 17 Aug. 4/4 A jigsaw map of England.
1909 Daily Mirror 17 Aug. 4/4 These jigsaw geography puzzles should be introduced into all the Council schools in London.
1910 Punch 9 Mar. 172 (caption) What if the jig-saw epidemic spreads?
1912 H. Maxwell Early Chron. Scotl. I. 16 One of those zigzaw puzzles which had a fleeting vogue two or three years ago.
1915 Morning Post 15 Apr. 2/4 A kind of verbal jig-saw.
1919 E. Shackleton South i. 11 Pack-ice might be described as a gigantic and interminable jigsaw-puzzle devised by nature.
1919 D. Wyllarde Holiday Husb. xiii. 167 As neatly as if she had found the right pieces of a zigsaw puzzle.
1920 Punch 22 Sept. 235/1 The comparatively simple task of piecing together the verse jigsaws.
1921 Spectator 16 Apr. 489/2 Minds, grown weary of other ‘jig-saws’.
1926 G. W. Deeping Sorrell & Son vii. 68 Kit played a game of his own with the town, treating it as a sort of jig-saw puzzle.
1935 W. S. Maugham Don Fernando x. 213 The various particulars fit like the pieces of a jig-saw puzzle.
1947 People 22 June 4/3 How can this jigsaw be pieced together? Many of the facts are now known as a result of most painstaking police inquiries.
1955 A. Huxley Let. 25 Sept. (1969) 766 All this jigsaw work entailed in shaping a play for stage production is extremely boring.
1964 M. Critchley Developmental Dyslexia ix. 57 Constructional tasks which embrace spatial concepts include the assembling of jigsaw puzzles, a game which may not be easy for some of these dyslexics.
1972 Oxf. Times 11 Aug. 3 As the excavation proceeds more and more tiny pieces of the archaeological jigsaw puzzle will be discovered.
1974 G. Markstein Cooler xl. 149 Sylvia was turning into the little jigsaw piece that often remained the hardest one to find.
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