Difference between Riddle and Screen

What is the difference between Riddle and Screen?

Riddle as a noun is a verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature, such as "it's black, and white, and red all over. what is it?" while Screen as a noun is a physical divider intended to block an area from view.

Riddle

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature, such as "It's black, and white, and red all over. What is it?" A sieve.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to fill with holes to fill or spread throughout; to pervade to solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question to put something through a sieve

Example sentence: The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest, and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.

Screen

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To filter by passing through a screen.To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewingTo present publicly (on the screen).To fit with a screen.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A physical divider intended to block an area from view.A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.The informational viewing area of electronic output devices; the result of the output.The viewing area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentationAn offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objectsIn mining and quarries, a frame supporting a mesh of bars or wires used to classify fragments of stone by size, allowing the passage of fragments whose a diameter is smaller than the distance between the bars or wires.A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.

Example sentence: We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.

We hope you now know whether to use Riddle or Screen in your sentence.

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