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verb
noun
- a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot)
- something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed
- Deceptive military device used to draw enemy attention or fire away from a more important target.
- An assembly of hooped or netted corridors into which wild ducks may be enticed (originally by tame ducks) and trapped.
- A real or fake animal used by hunters to lure game.
- A person or object meant to lure somebody into danger.
noun
- device or stratagem for concealment or deceit
- an outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something
- the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance
- fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan; intended to make the wearer of a garment made of this fabric hard to distinguish from the background
- (biology) The resemblance of an organism to its surroundings for avoiding detection.
- The act of disguising.
- (military) The use of natural or artificial material on personnel, objects, or tactical positions with the aim of confusing, misleading, or evading the enemy.
- Clothes made from camouflage fabric, for concealment in combat or hunting.
- (textiles) A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.
- A disguise or covering up.
verb
noun
verb
verb
- use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- escape, either physically or mentally
- practice evasion
- (intransitive) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
- (transitive) To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
- (transitive) To get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from.
verb
- To use evasion.
- (transitive, figuratively) To give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to whiten;
- (transitive) To whiten, for example the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices.
- (transitive) To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach.
- (transitive, cooking) To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
- (transitive) To make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding.
- (transitive) To give a white lustre to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
- To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
- (intransitive) To grow or become white.
- To cause to turn aside or back.
- (intransitive) To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
- (transitive) To bleach by excluding light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants by earthing them up or tying them together.
- turn pale, as if in fear
- cook (vegetables) briefly
verb
adj
noun
- (informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
- (tarot, often capitalized Fool) A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.
- (cooking) A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
- (slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, Hispanic) An informal greeting akin to buddy, dude, or man.
- Someone who has been made a fool of or tricked; dupe.
- (derogatory, slang) A tankie.
- (historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
- (literature) A stock character typified by unintelligence, naïveté or lucklessness, usually as a form of comic relief; often used as a source of insight or pathos for the audience, as such characters are generally less bound by social expectations.
- (derogatory) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
- a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages
- a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- a person who lacks good judgment
noun
- A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
- (by extension, music) A rhythm commonly used in blues music, consisting of a series of triplet notes with the middle note missing, so that it sounds like a long note followed by a short note, and suggests a walker dragging one foot.
- (dance) A dance move in which the foot is scuffed back and forth across the floor.
- The act of mixing cards or mah-jong tiles so as to randomize them.
- An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
- The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
- walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet
- the act of mixing cards haphazardly
verb
- To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
- To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.
- To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
- To change; modify the order of something.
- To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
- (ambitransitive) To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
- (ambitransitive) To put in a random order.
- move about, move back and forth
- mix so as to make a random order or arrangement
- walk by dragging one's feet
verb
- (transitive) To manipulate deceptively.
- To thrust with the pelvis, in particular for sexual intercourse.
- (transitive) To deceive or outmaneuver, using a feint.
- To hit.
- (intransitive) To deceive or outmaneuver someone using a feint, especially in American football or soccer.
- To stab.
- To play dance music, or to dance, in a juke.
- (transitive) To interrupt a conversation with an unrelated topic.
- (intransitive) To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head.
noun
- (Southern US, countable) A roadside cafe or bar, especially one with dancing and sometimes prostitution.
- (countable) Clipping of jukebox.
- (sports) A feint.
- (uncountable, music) A genre of electronic music native to Chicago, noted for its fast, abstract rhythms; see footwork.
- The neck of a bird.
- (football) a deceptive move made by a football player
- a small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox
adj
- designed to deceive
- not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality
- erroneous and usually accidental
- deliberately deceptive
- (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful
- inaccurate in pitch
- inappropriate to reality or facts
- arising from error
- adopted in order to deceive
- not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article
- (music) Out of tune.
- (logic) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
- Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
- Based on factually incorrect premises.
- Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
- Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
- Spurious, artificial.
- Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
- Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
- Used in the vernacular name of a species (or group of species) together with the name of another species to which it is similar in appearance.
adv
noun
verb
adj
- Being intentionally concealed so as to deceive.
- Situated beyond, or on the farther side.
- Beyond what is obvious or evident.
- beyond or outside an area of immediate interest; remote
- coming at a subsequent time or stage
- lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed)
noun
- The act or state of disguising, notably as a ploy.
- (figuratively) The appearance of something on the outside which masks what’s beneath.
- Material (such as clothing, makeup, a wig) used to alter one’s visual appearance in order to hide one's identity or assume another.
- any attire that modifies the appearance in order to conceal the wearer's identity
- an outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something
- the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance
verb
verb
- (transitive) To feign, dissimulate.
- (transitive) To disguise or conceal something.
- (intransitive) To falsely hide one's opinions or feelings.
- (transitive) To deliberately ignore something; to pretend not to notice.
- hide under a false appearance
- make believe with the intent to deceive
- behave unnaturally or affectedly
noun
verb
- (intransitive, of the eye) To quail.
- (transitive) To deceive; cheat.
- (transitive) To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.
- (intransitive) To fly off; to turn aside.
- (transitive) To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.
- (intransitive) To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
- turn pale, as if in fear
adj
- Capable of being faked or forged.
- Logically capable of being proven false.
- (epistemology) The demarcation criterion between scientific and non-scientific statements proposed by Karl Popper. In order to be ranked as scientific, statements or systems of statements must be contradicted by an intersubjective singular existential statement, also called a basic statement, and not be contradicted by another, that is, they must also be logically possible.
- capable of being tested (verified or falsified) by experiment or observation
verb
noun
- (card games, chiefly bridge) The holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself.
- The use of dishonest means or subterfuge to achieve one's (especially political) goals; chicanery, trickery.
- (road transport) A raised area or other obstacle around which vehicles must drive, especially designed to reduce speed.
- (motor racing) A sharp double bend on a racecourse, designed to prevent unsafe speeds; an obstacle creating a curve.
- A quibble, a pedantic or dishonest objection; an act of deception.
- a movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes placed before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in single file
- a bridge hand that is void of trumps
- the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
verb
adj
noun
- (countable) A light parody.
- (countable) An act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank.
- (countable, British, historical) A drinking game in which players hold up to three (or another specified number of) coins hidden in a fist and attempt to guess the total number of coins held.
- (uncountable) Nonsense.
- (computing) A cyberattack involving deception via impersonated identities; a digital asset used in such an attack.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Semen.
- a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way
adj
noun
- One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information.
- (American football) A play where the quarterback receives the snap and immediately dives forward.
- An informer; a tell-tale.
- A cheat; a con artist.
- (movie theaters) Ellipsis of sneak preview
- The act of sneaking
- (US) A sneaker; a tennis shoe.
- someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
- a person who is regarded as underhanded and furtive and contemptible
- someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions
verb
- (ditransitive) To stealthily bring someone something.
- (intransitive, informal, with on) To inform an authority of another's misdemeanours.
- (intransitive) To creep or go stealthily; to come or go while trying to avoid detection, as a person who does not wish to be seen.
- (transitive) To take something stealthily without permission.
- to go stealthily or furtively
- put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner
- pass on stealthily
- make off with belongings of others
noun
- Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge, deception.
- A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.
- (poker) A forced bet: the small blind or the big blind.
- (baseball, slang, 1800s) No score.
- A movable covering for a window to keep out light, made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.
- A hiding place.
- A place where people can hide in order to observe wildlife.
- (poker) A player who is forced to pay such a bet.
- (rugby, colloquial) The blindside.
- (military) A blindage.
- a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight
- a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters)
- something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity
- people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group
adj
- (not comparable) Unable to see, or only partially able to see.
- (horticulture) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.
- Unintelligible or illegible.
- (not comparable) Without any prior knowledge.
- (not comparable) Closed at one end; having a dead end; exitless.
- (comparable) Failing to recognize, acknowledge or perceive.
- (LGBTQ, slang) Uncircumcised.
- (not comparable, metalworking, construction, of a fastener) Able to be fixed without access to one end.
- (Of a pimple) not having a well-defined head.
- (not comparable, of a place) Having little or no visibility.
- (sciences) Using blinded study design, wherein information is purposely limited to prevent bias.
- (in certain phrases, chiefly in the negative) Smallest or slightest.
- (not comparable) Having no openings for light or passage; both dark and exitless.
- (not comparable) Unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating circumstances, etc.
- unable to see
- not based on reason or evidence
- unable or unwilling to perceive or understand
adv
verb
- (transitive) To make temporarily or permanently blind.
- To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.
- To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel, for example a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.
- (informal, obsolete except when paired, especially eff and blind) To curse, swear, use foul language
- render unable to see
- make blind by putting the eyes out
- make dim by comparison or conceal
verb
adj
noun
noun
- an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
- the faculty of contriving; inventive skill
- a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
- any improvised arrangement for temporary use
- an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.
- the act of devising something
- A means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a certain objective.
- A (mechanical) device to perform a certain task.
- Something overly artful or artificial.
noun
verb
- make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid
- move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- (transitive) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
- (ambitransitive) To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
- (transitive) To elude.
- (transitive, figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
- (photography, videography) To make an area of an image lighter (when processing photographs in a darkroom, this is accomplished by decreasing the exposure of that area to light).
adj
noun
- an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
- a maneuver in a game or conversation
- Specifically, such a tactic or artifice in military operation.
- (uncountable) Military deception or artifice.
- (uncountable) Cunning and artifice in general.
- A tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception.
verb
- To deceptively trick into something wrong.
- To deceive by telling lies or otherwise giving a false impression.
- (literally) To lead astray, in a false direction.
- (loosely) To accidentally or intentionally confuse.
- give false or misleading information to
- lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions
noun
noun
- device or stratagem for concealment or deceit
- an outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something
- the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance
- fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan; intended to make the wearer of a garment made of this fabric hard to distinguish from the background
- (biology) The resemblance of an organism to its surroundings for avoiding detection.
- The act of disguising.
- (military) The use of natural or artificial material on personnel, objects, or tactical positions with the aim of confusing, misleading, or evading the enemy.
- Clothes made from camouflage fabric, for concealment in combat or hunting.
- (textiles) A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.
- A disguise or covering up.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
- (by extension, music) A rhythm commonly used in blues music, consisting of a series of triplet notes with the middle note missing, so that it sounds like a long note followed by a short note, and suggests a walker dragging one foot.
- (dance) A dance move in which the foot is scuffed back and forth across the floor.
- The act of mixing cards or mah-jong tiles so as to randomize them.
- An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
- The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
- walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet
- the act of mixing cards haphazardly
verb
- To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
- To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.
- To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
- To change; modify the order of something.
- To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
- (ambitransitive) To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
- (ambitransitive) To put in a random order.
- move about, move back and forth
- mix so as to make a random order or arrangement
- walk by dragging one's feet
noun
- The act or state of disguising, notably as a ploy.
- (figuratively) The appearance of something on the outside which masks what’s beneath.
- Material (such as clothing, makeup, a wig) used to alter one’s visual appearance in order to hide one's identity or assume another.
- any attire that modifies the appearance in order to conceal the wearer's identity
- an outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something
- the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive, of the eye) To quail.
- (transitive) To deceive; cheat.
- (transitive) To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.
- (intransitive) To fly off; to turn aside.
- (transitive) To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.
- (intransitive) To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
- turn pale, as if in fear
noun
- Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge, deception.
- A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.
- (poker) A forced bet: the small blind or the big blind.
- (baseball, slang, 1800s) No score.
- A movable covering for a window to keep out light, made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.
- A hiding place.
- A place where people can hide in order to observe wildlife.
- (poker) A player who is forced to pay such a bet.
- (rugby, colloquial) The blindside.
- (military) A blindage.
- a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight
- a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters)
- something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity
- people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group
adj
- (not comparable) Unable to see, or only partially able to see.
- (horticulture) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.
- Unintelligible or illegible.
- (not comparable) Without any prior knowledge.
- (not comparable) Closed at one end; having a dead end; exitless.
- (comparable) Failing to recognize, acknowledge or perceive.
- (LGBTQ, slang) Uncircumcised.
- (not comparable, metalworking, construction, of a fastener) Able to be fixed without access to one end.
- (Of a pimple) not having a well-defined head.
- (not comparable, of a place) Having little or no visibility.
- (sciences) Using blinded study design, wherein information is purposely limited to prevent bias.
- (in certain phrases, chiefly in the negative) Smallest or slightest.
- (not comparable) Having no openings for light or passage; both dark and exitless.
- (not comparable) Unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating circumstances, etc.
- unable to see
- not based on reason or evidence
- unable or unwilling to perceive or understand
adv
verb
- (transitive) To make temporarily or permanently blind.
- To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.
- To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel, for example a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.
- (informal, obsolete except when paired, especially eff and blind) To curse, swear, use foul language
- render unable to see
- make blind by putting the eyes out
- make dim by comparison or conceal
noun
- an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
- the faculty of contriving; inventive skill
- a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
- any improvised arrangement for temporary use
- an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.
- the act of devising something
- A means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a certain objective.
- A (mechanical) device to perform a certain task.
- Something overly artful or artificial.
noun
verb
- make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid
- move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- (transitive) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
- (ambitransitive) To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
- (transitive) To elude.
- (transitive, figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
- (photography, videography) To make an area of an image lighter (when processing photographs in a darkroom, this is accomplished by decreasing the exposure of that area to light).
adj
noun
- an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
- a maneuver in a game or conversation
- Specifically, such a tactic or artifice in military operation.
- (uncountable) Military deception or artifice.
- (uncountable) Cunning and artifice in general.
- A tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception.
verb
noun
- a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot)
- something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed
- Deceptive military device used to draw enemy attention or fire away from a more important target.
- An assembly of hooped or netted corridors into which wild ducks may be enticed (originally by tame ducks) and trapped.
- A real or fake animal used by hunters to lure game.
- A person or object meant to lure somebody into danger.
verb
- use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- escape, either physically or mentally
- practice evasion
- (intransitive) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
- (transitive) To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
- (transitive) To get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from.
verb
- To use evasion.
- (transitive, figuratively) To give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to whiten;
- (transitive) To whiten, for example the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices.
- (transitive) To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach.
- (transitive, cooking) To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
- (transitive) To make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding.
- (transitive) To give a white lustre to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
- To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
- (intransitive) To grow or become white.
- To cause to turn aside or back.
- (intransitive) To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
- (transitive) To bleach by excluding light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants by earthing them up or tying them together.
- turn pale, as if in fear
- cook (vegetables) briefly
verb
adj
noun
- (informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
- (tarot, often capitalized Fool) A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.
- (cooking) A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
- (slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, Hispanic) An informal greeting akin to buddy, dude, or man.
- Someone who has been made a fool of or tricked; dupe.
- (derogatory, slang) A tankie.
- (historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
- (literature) A stock character typified by unintelligence, naïveté or lucklessness, usually as a form of comic relief; often used as a source of insight or pathos for the audience, as such characters are generally less bound by social expectations.
- (derogatory) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
- a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages
- a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- a person who lacks good judgment
verb
- (transitive) To manipulate deceptively.
- To thrust with the pelvis, in particular for sexual intercourse.
- (transitive) To deceive or outmaneuver, using a feint.
- To hit.
- (intransitive) To deceive or outmaneuver someone using a feint, especially in American football or soccer.
- To stab.
- To play dance music, or to dance, in a juke.
- (transitive) To interrupt a conversation with an unrelated topic.
- (intransitive) To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head.
noun
- (Southern US, countable) A roadside cafe or bar, especially one with dancing and sometimes prostitution.
- (countable) Clipping of jukebox.
- (sports) A feint.
- (uncountable, music) A genre of electronic music native to Chicago, noted for its fast, abstract rhythms; see footwork.
- The neck of a bird.
- (football) a deceptive move made by a football player
- a small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox
verb
- (transitive) To feign, dissimulate.
- (transitive) To disguise or conceal something.
- (intransitive) To falsely hide one's opinions or feelings.
- (transitive) To deliberately ignore something; to pretend not to notice.
- hide under a false appearance
- make believe with the intent to deceive
- behave unnaturally or affectedly
verb
noun
- (card games, chiefly bridge) The holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself.
- The use of dishonest means or subterfuge to achieve one's (especially political) goals; chicanery, trickery.
- (road transport) A raised area or other obstacle around which vehicles must drive, especially designed to reduce speed.
- (motor racing) A sharp double bend on a racecourse, designed to prevent unsafe speeds; an obstacle creating a curve.
- A quibble, a pedantic or dishonest objection; an act of deception.
- a movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes placed before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in single file
- a bridge hand that is void of trumps
- the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
verb
adj
noun
- (countable) A light parody.
- (countable) An act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank.
- (countable, British, historical) A drinking game in which players hold up to three (or another specified number of) coins hidden in a fist and attempt to guess the total number of coins held.
- (uncountable) Nonsense.
- (computing) A cyberattack involving deception via impersonated identities; a digital asset used in such an attack.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Semen.
- a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way
verb
adj
noun
verb
- To deceptively trick into something wrong.
- To deceive by telling lies or otherwise giving a false impression.
- (literally) To lead astray, in a false direction.
- (loosely) To accidentally or intentionally confuse.
- give false or misleading information to
- lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions
noun
adj
- designed to deceive
- not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality
- erroneous and usually accidental
- deliberately deceptive
- (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful
- inaccurate in pitch
- inappropriate to reality or facts
- arising from error
- adopted in order to deceive
- not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article
- (music) Out of tune.
- (logic) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
- Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
- Based on factually incorrect premises.
- Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
- Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
- Spurious, artificial.
- Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
- Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
- Used in the vernacular name of a species (or group of species) together with the name of another species to which it is similar in appearance.
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- Being intentionally concealed so as to deceive.
- Situated beyond, or on the farther side.
- Beyond what is obvious or evident.
- beyond or outside an area of immediate interest; remote
- coming at a subsequent time or stage
- lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed)
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- Capable of being faked or forged.
- Logically capable of being proven false.
- (epistemology) The demarcation criterion between scientific and non-scientific statements proposed by Karl Popper. In order to be ranked as scientific, statements or systems of statements must be contradicted by an intersubjective singular existential statement, also called a basic statement, and not be contradicted by another, that is, they must also be logically possible.
- capable of being tested (verified or falsified) by experiment or observation
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- One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information.
- (American football) A play where the quarterback receives the snap and immediately dives forward.
- An informer; a tell-tale.
- A cheat; a con artist.
- (movie theaters) Ellipsis of sneak preview
- The act of sneaking
- (US) A sneaker; a tennis shoe.
- someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
- a person who is regarded as underhanded and furtive and contemptible
- someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions
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- (ditransitive) To stealthily bring someone something.
- (intransitive, informal, with on) To inform an authority of another's misdemeanours.
- (intransitive) To creep or go stealthily; to come or go while trying to avoid detection, as a person who does not wish to be seen.
- (transitive) To take something stealthily without permission.
- to go stealthily or furtively
- put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner
- pass on stealthily
- make off with belongings of others