{
    "term": "puzzle",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "image": "data/images/pu/puzzles.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a game, etc. that you have to think about carefully in order to answer it or do it",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a crossword puzzle"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a book of puzzles for children"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Games and toys"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["crossword", "jigsaw", "logic"],
                "verb + puzzle": ["complete", "do", "put together"],
                "puzzle + noun": ["book", "game", "piece"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "something that is difficult to understand or explain",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The deeper meaning of the poem remains a puzzle."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The detectives were beginning to solve the murder. All the pieces of the puzzle were falling neatly into place."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The origin of the word is something of a puzzle."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The puzzle remains of what happened to the ship."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There is a puzzle about how the plant first came to Britain."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The police didn't know what the message meant, but it was another piece of the puzzle."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They're trying to solve the puzzle of how gravity works."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Traces of explosives found among the wreckage were the key to the puzzle."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They knew who the killer was, but there were still some gaps in the puzzle."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "mystery",
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["great", "perplexing", "scientific"],
                "verb + puzzle": ["crack", "figure out", "piece together"],
                "puzzle + verb": ["remain"],
                "preposition": ["puzzle about", "puzzle of"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a piece of the puzzle",
                    "the key to a puzzle",
                    "a piece in the puzzle"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a picture printed on cardboard (= very thick, stiff card) or wood, that has been cut up into a lot of small pieces of different shapes that you have to fit together again",
            "labels": "(especially North American English)British English",
            "examples": [],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["crossword", "jigsaw", "logic"],
                "verb + puzzle": ["complete", "do", "put together"],
                "puzzle + noun": ["book", "game", "piece"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈpʌzl/",
                "audio": "pu/puzzle/puzzle__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈpʌzl/",
                "audio": "pu/puzzle/puzzle__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 16th cent. (as a verb): of unknown origin."
}