Trick
[trɪk]
Definition
(noun.) a cunning or deceitful action or device; 'he played a trick on me'; 'he pulled a fast one and got away with it'.
(noun.) an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent; 'that offer was a dirty trick'.
(noun.) (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner.
(noun.) a period of work or duty.
Checker: Virgil--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) An artifice or stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as, a trick in trade.
(a.) A sly, dexterous, or ingenious procedure fitted to puzzle or amuse; as, a bear's tricks; a juggler's tricks.
(a.) Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank; as, the tricks of boys.
(a.) A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait; as, a trick of drumming with the fingers; a trick of frowning.
(a.) A knot, braid, or plait of hair.
(a.) The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players.
(a.) A turn; specifically, the spell of a sailor at the helm, -- usually two hours.
(a.) A toy; a trifle; a plaything.
(v. t.) To deceive by cunning or artifice; to impose on; to defraud; to cheat; as, to trick another in the sale of a horse.
(v. t.) To dress; to decorate; to set off; to adorn fantastically; -- often followed by up, off, or out.
(v. t.) To draw in outline, as with a pen; to delineate or distinguish without color, as arms, etc., in heraldry.
Editor: Megan
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Artifice, stratagem, wile, cheat, dodge, doubling, gouge, fraud, chicane, blind, feint, mark, manœuvre, deceit, imposition, imposture, ruse, chouse, fetch, CLAP-TRAP, humbug, gammon, cunning contrivance, sharp practice.[2]. Sleight, juggle, antic, caper, gambol, freak, vagary.[3]. Habit, practice.
v. a. Cheat, defraud, deceive, cozen, dupe, delude, circumvent, gull, chouse, diddle, overreach, impose upon.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Artifice, contrivance, machination, guile, stratagem, wile, fraud, cheat,juggle, antic, vagary, finesse, sleight, deception, imposition, delusion,legerdemain
ANT:Blunder, exposure, bungling, mishap, botch, fumbling, inexpertness,maladroitness, genuineness, openhandedness, artlessness
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Definition
n. any fraud or stratagem to deceive an illusion: a clever contrivance to puzzle amuse or annoy: a particular habit or manner skill adroitness manner: a parcel of cards falling to a winner at one turn: any toy or gimcrack: a turn as at the helm: (slang) a watch.—v.t. to deceive to cheat.—ns. Trick′er; Trick′ery act or practice of playing tricks: artifice: stratagem: imposition.—adv. Trick′ily.—n. Trick′iness.—adj. Trick′ish addicted to tricks: artful in making bargains.—adv. Trick′ishly in a trickish manner: artfully: knavishly.—n. Trick′ishness the state of being trickish or deceitful.—adv. Trick′ly cleverly deftly.—n. Trick′scene a scene in which changes are made before the audience.—adjs. Trick′sey Trick′sy trickish exhibiting artfulness: pretty dainty neat.—n. Trick′siness state of being tricksey.—adj. Trick′some.—ns. Trick′ster one who practises tricks a cheat; Trick′-wig a kind of wig worn by actors the hair of which can be made to stand on end by a device.—adj. Trick′y.
v.t. to dress to decorate.—n. Trick′ing the act of one who tricks: (Shak.) dress ornament.
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Examples
- I mark the trick, Rawdon gravely said. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I don't defend the folly of playing you a trick under the circumstances. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Holmes stood before us with the air of a conjurer who is performing a trick. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Almost all states, however, ancient as well as modern, when reduced to this necessity, have, upon some occasions, played this very juggling trick. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Get up, you beast, and work, will yer, or I'll show yer a trick more! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It has not lost the trick of being eloquent. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The trick here is to argue from the opponent's language, never from his insight. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If she had been in great pain one would have excused it, but she only wanted to bring us all here: I know her naughty tricks. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- You are old enough to leave off boyish tricks, and to behave better, Josephine. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Speak up; none of your brimstone tricks. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- This is some of your tricks! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- No tricks, now, or-- Oh, you can trust me, you can trust me! Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I don't know how scarce you mayn't make the wittles and drink here, by your flopping tricks and your unfeeling conduct. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I have learned caution now, and I had rather play tricks with the law of England than with my own conscience. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Yet the father must be garnished and tricked out, said the old lady, because of his deportment. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The socialism of the Fabians soon became a definite legislative program which the various political parties were to be bulldozed, cajoled and tricked into enacting. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I must make him know that I will not be tricked on the south side of Everingham, any more than on the north: that I will be master of my own property. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The grotto was tricked out in the usual tasteless style observable in all the holy places of Palestine. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as that which he had told me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Now we must steal our thoats and be well away to the north before these fellows discover how we have tricked them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I have tricked you! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He was proud of his conquest, proud of tricking Edward, and very proud of marrying privately without his mother's consent. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
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