jigsawnoun(PICTURE GAME)
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a picture stuck onto wood or cardboard and cut into pieces of different shapes that must be joined together correctly to form the picture again:
We spent all evening doing a 1,000-piece jigsaw.
a picture stuck onto wood or cardboard and cut into pieces of different shapes that must be joined together correctly to form the picture again:
We spent all evening doing a 1,000-piece jigsaw.
a complicated or mysterious problem that can only be solved or explained by connecting several pieces of information:
The police are trying to piece together the jigsaw of how the dead man spent his last hours.
a tool with an electric motor and a thin metal blade that is used for cutting curves in flat materials, such as wood or metal