Puzzle vs Grid - What's the difference?
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Anything that is difficult to understand or make sense of.
A game for one person that is more or less difficult to work out or complete.
A crossword puzzle.
A jigsaw puzzle.
A riddle.
(archaic) Something made with marvellous skill; something of ingenious construction.
The state of being puzzled; perplexity.
(label) To perplex (someone).
* (Henry More) (1614-1687)
* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
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, chapter=4, title= To make intricate; to entangle.
* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
* (William Cowper) (1731-1800)
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A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.
A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.
* (movie)
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (computing) A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, such structures being known as a computational grid or simply grid computing, and used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters).
(cartography) A method of marking off maps into areas.
(motor racing) The pattern of starting positions of the drivers for a race.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 13, author=Andrew Benson, work=BBC Sport
, title= (electronics) The third (or higher) electrode of a vacuum tube (triode or higher).
To mark with a grid.
To assign a reference grid to.
As nouns the difference between puzzle and grid
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English
(wikipedia puzzle)Noun
(en noun)- Where he went after he left the house is a puzzle.
- to be in a puzzle
Synonyms
* (anything difficult to understand or make sense of ): anybody's guess, anyone's guess, conundrum, enigma, mystery * (game for one person ): brain-teaser, poser * (crossword puzzle ): crossword, crossword puzzle * (''jigsaw puzzle): jigsaw, jigsaw puzzle * (riddle ): guessing game, riddleDerived terms
* Chinese puzzle * crossword puzzle * jigsaw puzzle * monkey puzzle * puzzle out * puzzle over * puzzled * puzzlement * puzzler * puzzlingVerb
(puzzl)- A very shrewd disputant in those points is dexterous in puzzling others, if they be not thoroughpaced speculators in those great theories.
- He is perpetually puzzled and perplexed amidst his own blunders.
F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}
- The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate, / Puzzled in mazes, and perplexed with error.
- They disentangle from the puzzled skein.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* puzzled * puzzle out * puzzle over * puzzle through * puzzler * puzzlingReferences
grid
English
(wikipedia grid)Noun
(en noun)- You can't turn off the building from here; you have to shut down the whole grid .
Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid'. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national ' grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win, passage=McLaren's Lewis Hamilton fought up from the back of the grid to eighth, with team-mate Jenson Button taking ninth.}}
