Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A puzzle consisting of a mass of irregularly shaped pieces of cardboard, plastic, or wood that form a picture when fitted together. Also called picture puzzle.
Wiktionary
- n. A type of puzzle in which the aim is to reconstruct a picture that has been cut (originally, with a jigsaw) into many small interlocking pieces.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a puzzle that requires you to reassemble a picture that has been mounted on a stiff base and cut into interlocking pieces
Etymologies
- jigsaw + puzzle (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Spider got a 250-piece jigsaw puzzle of a snow scene in Vermont.”
“Ptolemy Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene were putting a jigsaw puzzle together, a scene of flowers, grass, and butterflies painted on thin wood that some master craftsman with a fretsaw had cut into small, irregular pieces.”
“Arranging flower stems in a vase, straightening pictures on a wall, and conquering a 1,500-piece jigsaw puzzle may not be passkeys to stellar success in our society, but they do provide gratification and a nice way to feel effective.”
“Asking the child who is unable to revisualize to clean his room independently is identical to asking an adult to assemble a 400-piece jigsaw puzzle without having seen the picture on the puzzle box cover.”
“Flicked on, the missing piece to an incomplete jigsaw puzzle was immediately found, and things fell into place for the team as a whole.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘jigsaw puzzle’.
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Playthings and Toys
have fun!
battledore, beanbag, bicycle, Big Wheel, crayons, boomerang, cap gun, doll, kite, jigsaw puzzle, hula hoop, jack-in-the-box and 66 more...
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GRE List
anthem, ablution, apocrypha, augur, cardinal, cathedral, chant, chapel, cloister, conformist, cult, devout and 145 more...
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Let's Play
Classic Children's Toys and Games and Amusements
colorforms, jacks, hopscotch, louisville slugger, duncan imperial, flexible flyer, radio flyer, troll doll, dam doll, pick-up sticks, silly putty, marbles and 155 more...
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Life's a beach
hot, tired, car, driving, radio, coast range, 101, neahkahnie mountain, gravel, crunching, shoes off, curtains drawn and 41 more...
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Indiana
Hi. I'm in Indiana.
jigsaw puzzle, french dressing, Miracle Whip, TV dinner, crazy quilt, basement, supposably, nucular, warsh, Virginia Slims, railroad spike, model airplane and 14 more...
Tweets
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treeseed A jigsaw puzzle is a tiling puzzle that requires the assembly of numerous small, often oddly shaped, interlocking and tessellating pieces. Each piece has a small part of a picture on it; when complete, a jigsaw puzzle produces a complete picture.
Jigsaw puzzles were originally created by painting a picture on a flat, rectangular piece of wood, and then cutting that picture into small pieces with a jigsaw, hence the name. John Spilsbury, a London mapmaker and engraver, is credited with commercialising jigsaw puzzles around 1760
_Wikipedia Feb 18, 2008