Sentences with phrase «like jigsaw pieces»

The four bases from which it is composed snap together like jigsaw pieces and can be artificially manipulated to construct endlessly varied forms in two and three dimensions.

Once each segment of the work was inked, it was placed like a jigsaw piece to make the whole, and then printed.

Not exact matches

They can not readily be put together into a better picture like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle; some of them belong to different pictures.

«It seemed like a piece of jigsaw slotting into place,» explains Helen.

Knowledge too, it supposed, could be divided into separate bits like the pieces in a jigsaw puzzle.

«You might think you don't need to give too much guidance to players who are billed as being the finished product — like Pogba or Sanchez — but I look at the case of Roberto Firmino at Liverpool as a good example of a manager improving a player and turning him into a central piece of his jigsaw.»

But despite the strong efforts that Alexis Sanchez has put in up front and the performances from the likes of Giroud, Welbeck and Perez, I still think a major talent up front would be the missing piece to the jigsaw, especially when it comes to our chances of winning the league again!

It is the other pieces of the jigsaw that are equally important, like who the rest of the team will be and who manages the team.

How about most on here have never seen their club ever finish outside top 4 in their lifetime stop talking like were the worst club in the world with no hope of moving forward we our only a few pieces of the jigsaw to be a great team again but it don't happen overnight weve only had 2 years of beign able to really compete financially and with all our players leaving beforehand it will take time to build a team of wc players again we are now able to start building a proper team is what I'm trying to get at and it won't happen overnight Coyg

The belief inside the Tottenham camp is so strong right now that the likes of Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United are rightly fearing this unyielding pursuit for change by Spurs, and it is the belief which burns internally at White Hart Lane which has may just have added the final piece to Redknapp's Tottenham jigsaw: consistency.

The new piece of knowledge fits into the gap ready for it, like a missing piece in a jigsaw puzzle.

Like a jigsaw puzzle, each piece is important, and only when put together does the picture become clear.

Like a jigsaw puzzle, if any of the pieces are missing, their care won't be complete.

He takes the 525 - gram main mass and the 241 - gram piece and a little 7.7 - gram shard, and twists the three around until, like a jigsaw puzzle, they lock perfectly into place — the way they must have been before the parent body broke up in the atmosphere.

«KEO is like a big jigsaw puzzle, and if you don't give me your message, there will be a piece missing,» says Jestin.

The domains of its RNAs all have irregular shapes and fit together in the ribosome like the pieces of a three - dimensional jigsaw puzzle to form a large, monolithic structure.

«It's like trying to assemble a jigsaw puzzle without half the pieces and with no picture on the box,» Tomasko said.

«It's like a jigsaw puzzle: It's really difficult to piece together, but once you've solved it, you know it's right.»

While most plant cells are brick - like in shape, pavement cells resemble jigsaw puzzle pieces.

Now, scientists have suggested a new reason why these dinos might have been able to grow so massive: special «toothed» bones in their backs that fit together neatly like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.

Although many vertebrate species have diversified on the island after arriving by overwater «sweepstakes» dispersal, most — such as the flying lizards and black - crested macaque monkeys — have speciated in such a way that their geographic ranges are non-overlapping, with their ranges meeting like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle.

Like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, we have various bits of Timurlengia's skeleton, including part of the snout and jaws, some teeth, various vertebrae of the neck, back and tail, and fragments of the hands and feet.

«It's like we have a jigsaw puzzle but we don't have all of the pieces.»

The bottom line is that it has been very difficult to understand what the contiguous DNA sequences really look like, when these tandem repeats appear to make up an enormous amount of exactly similar pieces in an enormous jigsaw puzzle,» explains Lex Nederbragt.

The result is that researchers are left with a large amount of fragments that they must try to put together in the digitized copy — much like a jigsaw puzzle with an extreme number of pieces.

Like someone struggling with an «impossible» jigsaw puzzle, synthesizers have trouble determining which genetic piece goes where when many of the building blocks look the same.

This left an empty site on the surface of the silica which a similar molecule could fit into rather like the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle.

«Designing novel drugs is a bit like finding the proper piece that fits into a jigsaw puzzle,» said Dr Jesus Angulo, a senior lecturer at the University of East Anglia's school of pharmacy who led the research.

Many plant epidermal cells form interlocking shapes that look like jigsaw puzzle pieces.

The separate images were treated like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.

So we take this community apart, just like an enormous jigsaw puzzle, and break it up into tiny, tiny molecular pieces that we can measure with sequencing machines.

Unlike Xray crystallography, which essentially snaps a picture of a molecule, NMR spectra contain a jumble of signals that must be pieced together like a jigsaw puzzle.

«It's a like a giant jigsaw puzzle and we have all of the pieces on the table and the challenge now is how they all fit together.»

Look at it like putting together a jigsaw puzzle - you never question the first piece you begin with, you simply have faith that the end result will bring completion.

Most of all, it's clarified how food and the environment impacts my hormonal health — there is so much contradictory information out there which can be very overwhelming, and I feel like this course has clarified a lot for me — like the last jigsaw piece completing the complicated puzzle....

It's like when you first open up a jigsaw puzzle and spill all the pieces out on the table.

The pieces just fell into places, like a jigsaw.

There are a lot of pattern pieces that fit together like a jigsaw puzzle.

Finding pieces that flatter, that work like a jigsaw puzzle around not only your body, but amongst each other.

And just like that 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle, I'll eventually figure it out if I just give myself enough time and don't give up.

So we started dating and it was like bringing pieces of a jigsaw puzzle together, we just fit.

, Grant explains, «I know it's cliche but, Christina for me was like finding the missing piece to the jigsaw puzzle.»

The gist of it is that when you upload your photo, of course you know what it looks like, but to your unsuspecting matches, it's initially covered with 16 jigsaw pieces.

The show feels like it's made up of pieces from several different jigsaw puzzles, the tabs jammed into the blanks with zero regard for compatibility.

The Nine doesn't quite feel like a Lost knockoff since its missing - piece, jigsaw - puzzle construct has a basis in reality: the unknowable feelings of those who have weathered personal crisis.

Annihilation is more like (if I may quote Jim Croce) a jigsaw puzzle with a couple of pieces gone.

The structure shares something with Christopher Nolan's Memento, but while that film was a Jenga tower of narrative riddles, precariously stacked, The Captive feels more like a scattered pile of jigsaw - pieces, which you group by colour and tone until the larger picture starts to cohere.

When I first saw this movie, I liked it, but I saw it as just another jigsaw piece in the grand Marvel scheme.

At YES Prep North Central, the college - bound culture, high - octane teaching practices, and strong relationships — among students, among teachers, and among teachers and students — all fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.

Like any jigsaw puzzle, pieces of information must be pieced together to make sense.