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noun
- An act of deceiving someone.
- An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.
- (law) The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury.
- (uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive.
- the quality of being fraudulent
- the act of deceiving
- a misleading falsehood
verb
- To feign or counterfeit.
- (informal) To receive (something, usually of trifling value) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.
- (linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.
- (ditransitive) To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
- (informal) To interrupt the current activity of (a person) and lead them away in order to speak with them, get their help, etc.
- (obsolete except in ballads) To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
- To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
- To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
- (golf) To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green.
- (Upper Midwestern US, West Midlands, Malaysia, Singapore, proscribed) To lend.
- (arithmetic) In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.
- To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time.
- take up and practice as one's own
- get temporarily
noun
- (programming) In Rust and some other programming languages, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.
- (golf, countable, uncountable) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
- (construction, civil engineering) A borrow pit.
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adj
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- represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like
- make believe with the intent to deceive
- state insincerely
- behave unnaturally or affectedly
- put forward a claim and assert right or possession of
- put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
- (transitive) To feign, affect (a state, quality, etc.).
- (intransitive with 'to', formal, originally transitive) To lay claim (to an ability, status, advantage, etc.).
- To engage in make-believe.
- (intransitive or with 'that' clause or 'to' infinitive) To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance.
verb
noun
- (informal, uncountable) Clipping of gaffer tape.
- A trick or con.
- (nautical) The upper spar used to control a gaff-rigged sail.
- A minor error or faux pas, a gaffe.
- Rough or harsh treatment; criticism.
- (UK, Ireland, slang) A place of residence.
- A tool consisting of a large metal hook with a handle or pole, especially the one used to pull large fish aboard a boat.
- (LGBTQ) A type of tight, panty-like underwear worn to hold the penis and testicles tucked backwards and make one's genital region look smooth, as if one had a vulva.
- an iron hook with a handle; used for landing large fish
- a spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail
- a sharp metal spike or spur that is fastened to the leg of a gamecock
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verb
adj
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adj
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- (intransitive) To speak persuasively or with guile to obtain something.
- To use guile or persuasion on (someone); also, to deceive or perpetrate a hoax on (someone).
- (Polari) To meet and seduce (someone) for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation; to pick up.
- (specifically) To obtain (confidential information) by impersonation or other deception; also, to deceive (someone) into disclosing confidential information.
- To obtain (something) for free, particularly by guile or persuasion.
- (transitive, British, criminal slang) To obtain (something) through armed robbery or robbery involving violence, or theft; to rob; to steal.
- To obtain (something desired), or avoid (something undesired), through improvisation or luck; to fluke, to get away with.
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adj
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- Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.
- An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.
- (card games) A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined.
- (nautical) A sailor's spell of work at the helm, usually two hours long.
- A knot, braid, or plait of hair.
- (slang) A customer or client of a prostitute.
- (heraldry) A representation of arms that is drawn as an outline with labels to indicate colors.
- An entertaining difficult physical action.
- (Western Pennsylvania) A daily period of work, especially in shift-based jobs.
- Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank.
- (slang, vulgar) A term of abuse.
- (slang) A sex act, chiefly one performed for payment; an act of prostitution.
- A single element of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act; a magic trick.
- (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner
- a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement
- a cunning or deceitful action or device
- a prostitute's customer
- an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent
- an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
- a period of work or duty
verb
noun
- the act of giving a false appearance
- pretending with intention to deceive
- an artful or simulated semblance
- a false or unsupportable quality
- imaginative intellectual play
- Intention or purpose not real but professed.
- (uncountable) Affectation or ostentation of manner.
- An insincere attempt to reach a specific condition or quality.
- An unsupported claim made or implied.
- (countable or uncountable) The action of pretending; false or simulated show or appearance; false or hypocritical assertion or representation.
noun
- the act of giving a false appearance
- the act of imitating the behavior of some situation or some process by means of something suitably analogous (especially for the purpose of study or personnel training)
- (computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program
- representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale)
- (soccer) The act of falling over in order to be awarded a foul, when no foul has been committed.
- (video games) A video game designed to convey a more or less realistic experience, as of a sport or warfare.
- Something that simulates a system or environment in order to predict actual behaviour.
- Assuming an appearance which is feigned, or not true.
- The process of simulating.
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verb
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- expose to light, of photographic film
- expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas
- abandon by leaving out in the open air
- put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
- expose or make accessible to some action or influence
- to show, make visible or apparent
- remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body
- reveal to view as by removing a cover
- (computing, transitive) To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs.
- (transitive) To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce (to).
- (transitive) To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness.
- (transitive) To subject photographic film to light thereby recording an image.
- To submit to an active (mostly dangerous) substance like an allergen, ozone, nicotine, solvent, or to any other stress, in order to test the reaction, resistance, etc.
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- (countable) An act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank.
- (countable) A light parody.
- (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
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- 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
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- (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
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noun
- (slang) A cheating trick; a fraud.
- A seabird of the genus Larus or of the subfamily Larinae.
- One easily cheated; a dupe.
- Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Cepora.
- (dialectal) A channel made by a stream; a natural watercourse; running water.
- A stupid animal.
- (dialectal) A breach or hole made by the force of a torrent; fissure, chasm.
- a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs
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adj
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- 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
noun
- A state or act of deceit.
- A state or act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust.
- (international law, in warfare) An illegitimate act of deception, such as using symbols like the Red Cross or white flag in a false claim of surrender to gain proximity to an enemy for purposes of attack.
- an act of deliberate betrayal
- betrayal of a trust
noun
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
- (football) a deceptive move made by a football player
- (sports) A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.
- Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
- (nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
adj
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- speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths
- make a copy of with the intent to deceive
- tamper, with the purpose of deception
- (transitive) To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
- (nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.
- (transitive) To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
- (music, ambitransitive) To improvise, in jazz.
noun
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- intentional deception resulting in injury to another person
- the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
- (law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
- The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
- Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved or unlawful gain.
- A person who performs any such trick.
noun
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- a claimant to the throne or to the office of ruler (usually without just title)
- a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives
- A person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold.
- One who puts forth a claim, or who aspires to or aims at something; a claimant, candidate, or aspirant; now, one who makes baseless pretensions.
- A claimant to a throne or the office of a ruler; originally in a neutral sense, but now always applied to a claimant who is held to have no just title.
- One who pretends or lays claim to something; one who makes a profession, show, or assertion, especially without adequate grounds, falsely, or with intent to deceive; a dissembler, deceiver, charlatan, hypocrite.
verb
noun
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- (Internet) Short for pseudoelement.
- A poseur; one who is fake.
- (Internet, clipping) A pseudonym; a false name used for online anonymity.
- (travel industry, informal) pseudo-city code
- (derogatory) An intellectually pretentious person; a pseudointellectual.
- Clipping of pseudoephedrine.
adj
noun
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- a theatrical performer
- (psychiatry) One of the ten classifications of necrophilia based on the increasing severity of the disorder as defined by the American forensic psychologist Anil Aggrawal (Class I).
- Alternative form of roleplayer.
- (basketball) A player who is not one of the best players on the team, but still makes a meaningful contribution.
verb
- deceive by a mock action
- To direct (a blow, thrust, or other offensive movement resembling an attack) on some part of the body, intended to distract from a real attack on another part.
- (rare) To direct a feint or mock attack against (someone).
- (intransitive, boxing, fencing, also often military) To make a feint or mock attack.
noun
- any distracting or deceptive maneuver (as a mock attack)
- (figuratively) Something feigned; a false or pretend appearance; a pretence or stratagem.
- (often military) A movement made to confuse an opponent; a dummy.
- (boxing, fencing) A blow, thrust, or other offensive movement resembling an attack on some part of the body, intended to distract from a real attack on another part.
adj
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- (slang) An impostor.
- An incising tool that cuts blanks or forms for envelopes, gloves, etc., from leather, paper, or other materials.
- A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.
- (mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.
- A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.
- (US, military, slang, uncountable) Information.
- (slang) A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.
- A chisel with a curved blade for cutting or scooping channels, grooves, or holes in wood, stone, etc.
- (originally US, colloquial) An act of gouging.
- and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves
- the act of gouging
- an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
verb
- (intransitive) To use a gouge.
- (transitive) To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.
- (transitive) To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.
- (transitive, intransitive) To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
- force with the thumb
- make a groove in
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
verb
noun
- Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
- Alternative form of gyle.
- (uncountable) Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
- shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
- the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
- the quality of being crafty
noun
- An act of deceiving someone.
- An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.
- (law) The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury.
- (uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive.
- the quality of being fraudulent
- the act of deceiving
- a misleading falsehood
noun
adj
noun
adj
verb
- represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like
- make believe with the intent to deceive
- state insincerely
- behave unnaturally or affectedly
- put forward a claim and assert right or possession of
- put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
- (transitive) To feign, affect (a state, quality, etc.).
- (intransitive with 'to', formal, originally transitive) To lay claim (to an ability, status, advantage, etc.).
- To engage in make-believe.
- (intransitive or with 'that' clause or 'to' infinitive) To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance.
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verb
adj
noun
adj
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- (intransitive) To speak persuasively or with guile to obtain something.
- To use guile or persuasion on (someone); also, to deceive or perpetrate a hoax on (someone).
- (Polari) To meet and seduce (someone) for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation; to pick up.
- (specifically) To obtain (confidential information) by impersonation or other deception; also, to deceive (someone) into disclosing confidential information.
- To obtain (something) for free, particularly by guile or persuasion.
- (transitive, British, criminal slang) To obtain (something) through armed robbery or robbery involving violence, or theft; to rob; to steal.
- To obtain (something desired), or avoid (something undesired), through improvisation or luck; to fluke, to get away with.
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adj
verb
noun
- the act of giving a false appearance
- pretending with intention to deceive
- an artful or simulated semblance
- a false or unsupportable quality
- imaginative intellectual play
- Intention or purpose not real but professed.
- (uncountable) Affectation or ostentation of manner.
- An insincere attempt to reach a specific condition or quality.
- An unsupported claim made or implied.
- (countable or uncountable) The action of pretending; false or simulated show or appearance; false or hypocritical assertion or representation.
noun
- the act of giving a false appearance
- the act of imitating the behavior of some situation or some process by means of something suitably analogous (especially for the purpose of study or personnel training)
- (computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program
- representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale)
- (soccer) The act of falling over in order to be awarded a foul, when no foul has been committed.
- (video games) A video game designed to convey a more or less realistic experience, as of a sport or warfare.
- Something that simulates a system or environment in order to predict actual behaviour.
- Assuming an appearance which is feigned, or not true.
- The process of simulating.
noun
verb
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- expose to light, of photographic film
- expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas
- abandon by leaving out in the open air
- put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
- expose or make accessible to some action or influence
- to show, make visible or apparent
- remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body
- reveal to view as by removing a cover
- (computing, transitive) To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs.
- (transitive) To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce (to).
- (transitive) To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness.
- (transitive) To subject photographic film to light thereby recording an image.
- To submit to an active (mostly dangerous) substance like an allergen, ozone, nicotine, solvent, or to any other stress, in order to test the reaction, resistance, etc.
noun
noun
- (countable) An act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank.
- (countable) A light parody.
- (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
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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
adj
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
noun
- A state or act of deceit.
- A state or act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust.
- (international law, in warfare) An illegitimate act of deception, such as using symbols like the Red Cross or white flag in a false claim of surrender to gain proximity to an enemy for purposes of attack.
- an act of deliberate betrayal
- betrayal of a trust
noun
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
- (football) a deceptive move made by a football player
- (sports) A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.
- Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
- (nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
adj
verb
- speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths
- make a copy of with the intent to deceive
- tamper, with the purpose of deception
- (transitive) To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
- (nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.
- (transitive) To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
- (music, ambitransitive) To improvise, in jazz.
noun
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- intentional deception resulting in injury to another person
- the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
- (law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
- The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
- Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved or unlawful gain.
- A person who performs any such trick.
noun
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- a claimant to the throne or to the office of ruler (usually without just title)
- a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives
- A person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold.
- One who puts forth a claim, or who aspires to or aims at something; a claimant, candidate, or aspirant; now, one who makes baseless pretensions.
- A claimant to a throne or the office of a ruler; originally in a neutral sense, but now always applied to a claimant who is held to have no just title.
- One who pretends or lays claim to something; one who makes a profession, show, or assertion, especially without adequate grounds, falsely, or with intent to deceive; a dissembler, deceiver, charlatan, hypocrite.
verb
noun
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- (Internet) Short for pseudoelement.
- A poseur; one who is fake.
- (Internet, clipping) A pseudonym; a false name used for online anonymity.
- (travel industry, informal) pseudo-city code
- (derogatory) An intellectually pretentious person; a pseudointellectual.
- Clipping of pseudoephedrine.
adj
noun
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- a theatrical performer
- (psychiatry) One of the ten classifications of necrophilia based on the increasing severity of the disorder as defined by the American forensic psychologist Anil Aggrawal (Class I).
- Alternative form of roleplayer.
- (basketball) A player who is not one of the best players on the team, but still makes a meaningful contribution.
noun
- (slang) An impostor.
- An incising tool that cuts blanks or forms for envelopes, gloves, etc., from leather, paper, or other materials.
- A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.
- (mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.
- A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.
- (US, military, slang, uncountable) Information.
- (slang) A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.
- A chisel with a curved blade for cutting or scooping channels, grooves, or holes in wood, stone, etc.
- (originally US, colloquial) An act of gouging.
- and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves
- the act of gouging
- an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
verb
- (intransitive) To use a gouge.
- (transitive) To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.
- (transitive) To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.
- (transitive, intransitive) To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
- force with the thumb
- make a groove in
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
verb
- To feign or counterfeit.
- (informal) To receive (something, usually of trifling value) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.
- (linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.
- (ditransitive) To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
- (informal) To interrupt the current activity of (a person) and lead them away in order to speak with them, get their help, etc.
- (obsolete except in ballads) To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
- To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
- To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
- (golf) To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green.
- (Upper Midwestern US, West Midlands, Malaysia, Singapore, proscribed) To lend.
- (arithmetic) In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.
- To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time.
- take up and practice as one's own
- get temporarily
noun
- (programming) In Rust and some other programming languages, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.
- (golf, countable, uncountable) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
- (construction, civil engineering) A borrow pit.
verb
noun
- (informal, uncountable) Clipping of gaffer tape.
- A trick or con.
- (nautical) The upper spar used to control a gaff-rigged sail.
- A minor error or faux pas, a gaffe.
- Rough or harsh treatment; criticism.
- (UK, Ireland, slang) A place of residence.
- A tool consisting of a large metal hook with a handle or pole, especially the one used to pull large fish aboard a boat.
- (LGBTQ) A type of tight, panty-like underwear worn to hold the penis and testicles tucked backwards and make one's genital region look smooth, as if one had a vulva.
- an iron hook with a handle; used for landing large fish
- a spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail
- a sharp metal spike or spur that is fastened to the leg of a gamecock
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
verb
noun
- (slang) A cheating trick; a fraud.
- A seabird of the genus Larus or of the subfamily Larinae.
- One easily cheated; a dupe.
- Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Cepora.
- (dialectal) A channel made by a stream; a natural watercourse; running water.
- A stupid animal.
- (dialectal) A breach or hole made by the force of a torrent; fissure, chasm.
- a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs
verb
- deceive by a mock action
- To direct (a blow, thrust, or other offensive movement resembling an attack) on some part of the body, intended to distract from a real attack on another part.
- (rare) To direct a feint or mock attack against (someone).
- (intransitive, boxing, fencing, also often military) To make a feint or mock attack.
noun
- any distracting or deceptive maneuver (as a mock attack)
- (figuratively) Something feigned; a false or pretend appearance; a pretence or stratagem.
- (often military) A movement made to confuse an opponent; a dummy.
- (boxing, fencing) A blow, thrust, or other offensive movement resembling an attack on some part of the body, intended to distract from a real attack on another part.
adj
verb
noun
- Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
- Alternative form of gyle.
- (uncountable) Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
- shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
- the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
- the quality of being crafty
noun
verb
adj
adj
noun
- Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.
- An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.
- (card games) A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined.
- (nautical) A sailor's spell of work at the helm, usually two hours long.
- A knot, braid, or plait of hair.
- (slang) A customer or client of a prostitute.
- (heraldry) A representation of arms that is drawn as an outline with labels to indicate colors.
- An entertaining difficult physical action.
- (Western Pennsylvania) A daily period of work, especially in shift-based jobs.
- Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank.
- (slang, vulgar) A term of abuse.
- (slang) A sex act, chiefly one performed for payment; an act of prostitution.
- A single element of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act; a magic trick.
- (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner
- a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement
- a cunning or deceitful action or device
- a prostitute's customer
- an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent
- an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
- a period of work or duty
verb
noun
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
- (football) a deceptive move made by a football player
- (sports) A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.
- Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
- (nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
adj
verb
- speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths
- make a copy of with the intent to deceive
- tamper, with the purpose of deception
- (transitive) To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
- (nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.
- (transitive) To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
- (music, ambitransitive) To improvise, in jazz.