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Baffle vs. Puzzle — What's the Difference?

Baffle vs. Puzzle — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Baffle and Puzzle

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Baffle

To confuse or perplex, especially so as to frustrate or prevent from taking action
A patient whose condition baffled the physicians.

Puzzle

A puzzle is a game, problem, or toy that tests a person's ingenuity or knowledge. In a puzzle, the solver is expected to put pieces together in a logical way, in order to arrive at the correct or fun solution of the puzzle.

Baffle

To impede the force or movement of (a fluid).

Puzzle

Something, such as a game, toy, or problem, that requires ingenuity and often persistence in solving or assembling.

Baffle

A usually static device that regulates the flow of a fluid or light.
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Puzzle

Something that baffles or confuses; an enigma
The puzzle of the author's true identity.

Baffle

A partition that prevents interference between sound waves in a loudspeaker.

Puzzle

The condition of being perplexed; bewilderment
I'm really in a puzzle over how this happened.

Baffle

To bewilder completely; to confuse or perplex.
I am baffled by the contradictions and omissions in the instructions.

Puzzle

To baffle or confuse mentally by presenting or being a difficult problem or matter.

Baffle

(intransitive) To struggle in vain.
A ship baffles with the winds.

Puzzle

To clarify or solve (something confusing) by reasoning or study
He puzzled out the significance of the statement.

Baffle

To foil; to thwart.

Puzzle

To be perplexed.

Baffle

(obsolete) To publicly disgrace, especially of a recreant knight.

Puzzle

To ponder over a problem in an effort to solve or understand it.

Baffle

(obsolete) To hoodwink or deceive (someone).

Puzzle

Anything that is difficult to understand or make sense of.
Where he went after he left the house is a puzzle.

Baffle

A device used to dampen the effects of such things as sound, light, or fluid. Specifically, a baffle is a surface which is placed inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one part to another, without preventing motion altogether.
Sound baffle
Tanker trucks use baffles to keep the liquids inside from sloshing around.

Puzzle

A game for one or more people that is more or less difficult to work out or complete.

Baffle

An architectural feature designed to confuse enemies or make them vulnerable.

Puzzle

A crossword puzzle.

Baffle

A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.

Puzzle

A jigsaw puzzle.

Baffle

To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.
He by the heels him hung upon a tree,And baffled so, that all which passed byThe picture of his punishment might see.

Puzzle

A riddle.

Baffle

To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.
The art that baffles time's tyrannic claim.

Puzzle

(archaic) Something made with marvellous skill; something of ingenious construction.

Baffle

To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.
A suitable scripture ready to repel and baffle them all.
Calculations so difficult as to have baffled, until within a . . . recent period, the most enlightened nations.
The mere intricacy of a question should not baffle us.

Puzzle

The state of being puzzled; perplexity.
To be in a puzzle

Baffle

To practice deceit.

Puzzle

(transitive) To perplex, confuse, or mystify; to cause (someone) to be faced with a mystery, without answers or an explanation.

Baffle

To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.

Puzzle

(intransitive) To think long and carefully, in bewilderment.
We puzzled over the curious-shaped lock, but were unable to discover how the key should be inserted.

Baffle

A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.

Puzzle

(transitive) To make intricate; to entangle.

Baffle

A deflector, as a plate or wall, so arranged across a furnace or boiler flue as to mingle the hot gases and deflect them against the substance to be heated.

Puzzle

Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill in making.

Baffle

A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.

Puzzle

The state of being puzzled; perplexity; as, to be in a puzzle.

Baffle

A flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy

Puzzle

To perplex; to confuse; to embarrass; to put to a stand; to nonplus.
A very shrewd disputant in those points is dexterous in puzzling others.
He is perpetually puzzled and perplexed amidst his own blunders.

Baffle

Be a mystery or bewildering to;
This beats me!
Got me--I don't know the answer!
A vexing problem
This question really stuck me

Puzzle

To make intricate; to entangle.
They disentangle from the puzzled skein.
The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate,Puzzled in mazes, and perplexed with error.

Baffle

Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of;
What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge
Foil your opponent

Puzzle

To solve by ingenuity, as a puzzle; - followed by out; as, to puzzle out a mystery.

Baffle

Check the emission of (sound)

Puzzle

To be bewildered, or perplexed.
A puzzling fool, that heeds nothing.

Puzzle

To work, as at a puzzle; as, to puzzle over a problem.

Puzzle

A particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution;
He loved to solve chessmate puzzles
That's a real puzzler

Puzzle

A toy that tests your ingenuity

Puzzle

Be a mystery or bewildering to;
This beats me!
Got me--I don't know the answer!
A vexing problem
This question really stuck me

Puzzle

Be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide;
We puzzled over her sudden departure

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