zigsaw puzzle

A form of jigsaw puzzle — 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.

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Meanings

nounzigsaw puzzle (plural zigsaw puzzles)

plural zigsaw puzzles

  1. IndiaalternativeAlternative form of jigsaw puzzle.

    BB Patnaik sat with a zigsaw puzzle of the map of India meant for the kindergarten. He had separated the states and put them in four piles.

    1999, B.K.Tripathy, Baba Bugi
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    As for example, the young participants may be supplied with small wooden blocks or zigsaw puzzles to construct a particular scene displayed in the museum […]

    1984, Dilip Kumar Ray, Museum and physically handicapped in India, Darbari Udjog, page 59

    Hinduism is a zigsaw puzzle in that it contains every philosophy and most religions and outlooks, practices and observances, innumerable gods one fighting the other.

    1990, Ravindra Kumar, Problem of communalism in India

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