Enigmaname

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  historicalA German device used during World War II to encode strategic messages.

enigmanoun/ɪˈnɪɡmə/

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  Something or someone puzzling, mysterious or inexplicable.

  • I was, and still am, an enigma to myself.
  • At the heart of all things there is to be found a certain coincidentia oppositorum; and herein, as I have said, lies the key to our problem: the enigma of indeterminism. The astounding fact is that freedom and necessity can coexist;
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  A riddle, or a difficult problem.

  • Some enigma, some riddle: come, thy l'envoy, begin.
  • This little story before us is an amplification of that clever enigma, and though essentially a story for children, as its title-page tells us, would beguile many a one much older of a half-hour in the evening.
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  Riddles and puzzles, collectively.

  • From the beginning, readers of The Enigma of Arrival are likely to feel surrounded by enigma and puzzle.
  • These examples show that two processes are tested in enigma - logic and intuition. It is intuition that discovers the specific idea that may be called the “ wisdom ” of a given riddle, whereas logic is confounded by enigma and can only produce inadequate interpretations.
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  Mysteriousness; obscurity; a lack of clarity.

  • In those halcyon days I believed that the source of enigma was stupidity .
  • The circumstances under which the band is obtained and the strange story that it tells are wrapped in enigma that challenges the hermeneutic powers of the reader .
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  A style of literature characterized by obscurity and hints of transcendental meaning.

  • But in a sense it is probably close to this book— a series of juxtaposed splinters of meaning, which perhaps once in ten million times will come out as a piece of interpretable prose, with the black pieces intervening, and possibly one could look at this as a one-in-ten million exercise in enigma perhaps meaning something.
  • Isidore, on the other hand, while beginning with the traditional classification, proceeds to distinguish between allegory and enigma in a way that reveals a more unusual perception: There is this difference, however, between allegory and enigma, that the force of allegory is twofold, and figuratively indicates a second meaning behind the first, while in enigma it is only the meaning that is dark, and adumbrated by means of images.
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  A protein with three LIM domains (a conserved cysteine- and histidine-rich structure of two adjacent zinc fingers) at the C terminus that regulates protein phosphorylation.

  • Members of this LIM protein family expressed in muscle include muscle LIM protein (MLP), enigma, actinin-associated LIM protein (ALP), cypher, four and a half LIM-only protein FHL/SLIM, and heart LIM protein (HLP).
  • Yeast two-hybrid screening revealed that enigma binds to the insulin receptor (InsR) internalization motif.
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  The Talaud kingfisher, Todiramphus enigma.

  • As noted by Fry (1980), if both forms were shown to be resident and breeding on Talaud, enigma must be accorded specific status.
  • No conclusive proof of breeding by enigma was obtained, but during late September and October 1995, birds were paired and holding territory in central Karakelang.
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  Any member of the species Oedaleonotus enigma of grasshoppers.

  • The principal species involved were the migratory grasshopper, Melanoplus sanguinipes (Fab.); the Packard grasshopper, Melanoplus packardii Scudd.; the clearwinged grasshopper, Camnula pellucida (Scudd.); and the Enigma Oedaleonotus enigma Scudd.