English words for 'The practice of intrigue.'
Closest matches for "The practice of intrigue." are ranked by semantic fit across dictionary definitions.
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noun
noun
noun
- social relations involving intrigue to gain authority or power
- the profession devoted to governing and to political affairs
- the opinion you hold with respect to political questions
- the activities and affairs involved in managing a state or a government
- the study of government of states and other political units
- (treated as a plural noun) One's political stands and opinions.
- (countable) The profession of conducting political affairs.
- (countable) A methodology and activities associated with running a government, an organization, or a movement.
- (in the singular, informal) Real-world beliefs and social issues irrelevant to the topic at hand.
- (uncountable) Political maneuvers or diplomacy between people, groups, or organizations, especially involving power, standing, influence or conflict.
verb
noun
- Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
- (narratology) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
- Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
- A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.
- A grave.
- An area or land used for building on or planting on.
- A plan; a purpose.
- (fandom slang, euphemistic) Attractive physical attributes of a fictional character; assets.
- A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
- a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
- the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.
- a chart or graph showing the movements or progress of an object
- a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
verb
- (transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).
- (transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
- (transitive, intransitive) To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc).
- devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet)
- plan secretly, usually something illegal
- make a plot of
- make a schematic or technical drawing that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed
adj
- secret and sly or sordid
- marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed
- Of a person or an animal: sly, stealthy.
- Of a person, etc.: inclined to steal; pilfering, thieving.
- Of a thing: done with evasive or guilty secrecy.
- Of a thing: that has been acquired by theft; stolen; also (generally) taken stealthily.
verb
- form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner
- encourage or assent to illegally or criminally
- (intransitive, botany, rare) Of parts of a plant: to be converging or in close contact; to be connivent.
- (intransitive) To secretly cooperate with other people in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire.
verb
- form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner
- cause to be interested or curious
- (transitive) To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
- (transitive) To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.
- (intransitive) To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
- (intransitive) To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
noun
- a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends
- a clandestine love affair
- The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters.
- A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to affect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
- Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison or affair.
verb
noun
- a schematic or preliminary plan
- an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world
- a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
- an elaborate and systematic plan of action
- a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole
- (Internet) Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.
- A systematic plan of future action.
- An orderly combination of related parts.
- (astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
- (mathematics) A mathematical structure that generalizes the notion of an algebraic variety in several ways, such as taking account of multiplicities and allowing "varieties" defined over any commutative ring. Formally, a locally ringed space that admits a covering by open sets, each of which is isomorphic to an affine scheme (i.e. the spectrum of some commutative ring).
- (UK, chiefly Scotland, colloquial) A council housing estate.
- A plot or secret, devious plan.
- A chart or diagram of a system or object.
- (UK, pensions) A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent members.
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adj
verb
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 mystery play.
- A religious truth not understandable by the application of human reason alone (without divine aid).
- (archaic outside Eastern Orthodoxy) A sacrament.
- (Catholicism) A particular event or series of events in the life of Christ.
- (chiefly in the plural) A secret religious celebration, admission to which was usually through initiation.
- An account, story, book, film, or play, often with the theme of crime or murder, with a surprise ending that explains all the strange events that have occurred.
- Something secret or unexplainable; an unknown.
- Someone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature.
- a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie
- something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
noun
- An intricate plot to catch the unwary.
- The European spotted flycatcher, Muscicapa striata.
- (informal, usually in the plural) fuzzy inexact memories.
- One of its filaments; gossamer.
- (figurative) Something thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; valueless remainder.
- A spiderweb, or the remains of one, especially an asymmetrical one that is woven with an irregular pattern of threads.
- (Internet slang, rare) A web page that either has not been updated for a long time, or that is rarely visited.
- a fabric so delicate and transparent as to resemble a web of a spider
- filaments from a web that was spun by a spider
- a dense elaborate spider web that is more efficient than the orb web
verb
- (figurative, intransitive) To intrigue, manipulate, plot, scheme
- (figurative, transitive) To guide, steer, manage purposefully
- (ambitransitive) To move (something, or oneself) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position.
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- act in order to achieve a certain goal
- perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense
noun
- (military) The planned movement of troops, vehicles etc.; a strategic repositioning; (later also) a large training field-exercise of fighting units.
- A controlled (especially skillful) movement taken while steering a vehicle.
- (medicine) A specific medical or surgical movement, often eponymous, done with the doctor's hands or surgical instruments.
- A movement of the body, or with an implement, instrument etc., especially one performed with skill or dexterity.
- Any strategic or cunning action; a stratagem.
- an action aimed at evading an opponent
- a military training exercise
- a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill
- a move made to gain a tactical end
- a plan for attaining a particular goal
noun
- a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue
- a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot)
- A secret plot.
- (derogatory) A putative, secret organization of individuals gathered for a political purpose.
- An identifiable group within the tradition of Discordianism.
verb
noun
- a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue
- a dissenting clique
- (literature, film) A form of literature, film etc., that treats real people or events as if they were fiction; a mix of fact and fiction.
- The facts found in fiction.
- (countable) A group of people, especially within a political organization, which expresses a shared belief or opinion different from people who are not part of the group.
- (uncountable) Strife; discord.
noun
noun
- a person who devises plots or intrigues
- a person who specializes in interior design
- someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings)
- someone who designs clothing
- someone who specializes in graphic design
- A person who designs something, or who designs things as a profession.
- (computing) A software tool for designing things.
- A plotter or schemer.
adj
verb
- To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
- (mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
- (fishing) To fish with a jig.
- To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
- To sing to the tune of a jig.
- To skip school or be truant.
- To move briskly, especially as a dance.
- To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.
- dance a quick dance with leaping and kicking motions
noun
- (music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
- (mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
- (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
- A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.
- (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.
- (traditional English Morris dance) A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
- a device that holds a piece of machine work and guides the tools operating on it
- a fisherman's lure with one or more hooks that is jerked up and down in the water
- any of various old rustic dances involving kicking and leaping
- music in three-four time for dancing a jig
verb
- influence by slyness
- deal with simultaneously
- throw, catch, and keep in the air several things simultaneously
- manipulate by or as if by moving around components
- hold with difficulty and balance insecurely
- To manipulate objects, such as balls, clubs, beanbags, rings, etc. in an artful or artistic manner. Juggling may also include assorted other circus skills such as the diabolo, devil sticks, hat, and cigar box manipulation as well.
- To handle or manage many tasks at once.
- (ambitransitive) To deceive by trick or artifice.
noun
noun
- (uncountable) Cunning and artifice in general.
- Specifically, such a tactic or artifice in military operation.
- (uncountable) Military deception or artifice.
- A tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception.
- an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
- a maneuver in a game or conversation
adj
- Cunning, sly.
- (chiefly philosophy) With a worldview synthesizing many different ideas.
- (informal) Attractive, sexy (of a woman).
- Having the qualities of a fox.
- (of wine) Having an animal-like odor.
- (of a person, especially a woman) Having reddish-brown hair.
- (art) Using too much of the reddish-brown colors.
- marked by skill in deception
noun
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
- An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
- A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
- A bishop's standard staff of office.
- A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
- A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.
- A pothook.
- A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
- A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
- (music) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
- a circular segment of a curve
- a long staff with one end being hook shaped
- someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
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verb
adv
adj
noun
verb
noun
- The act of sneaking
- 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
- (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
adj
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
noun
noun
- social relations involving intrigue to gain authority or power
- the profession devoted to governing and to political affairs
- the opinion you hold with respect to political questions
- the activities and affairs involved in managing a state or a government
- the study of government of states and other political units
- (treated as a plural noun) One's political stands and opinions.
- (countable) The profession of conducting political affairs.
- (countable) A methodology and activities associated with running a government, an organization, or a movement.
- (in the singular, informal) Real-world beliefs and social issues irrelevant to the topic at hand.
- (uncountable) Political maneuvers or diplomacy between people, groups, or organizations, especially involving power, standing, influence or conflict.
verb
noun
- Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
- (narratology) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
- Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
- A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.
- A grave.
- An area or land used for building on or planting on.
- A plan; a purpose.
- (fandom slang, euphemistic) Attractive physical attributes of a fictional character; assets.
- A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
- a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
- the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.
- a chart or graph showing the movements or progress of an object
- a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
verb
- (transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).
- (transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
- (transitive, intransitive) To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc).
- devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet)
- plan secretly, usually something illegal
- make a plot of
- make a schematic or technical drawing that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed
noun
adj
verb
noun
- A mystery play.
- A religious truth not understandable by the application of human reason alone (without divine aid).
- (archaic outside Eastern Orthodoxy) A sacrament.
- (Catholicism) A particular event or series of events in the life of Christ.
- (chiefly in the plural) A secret religious celebration, admission to which was usually through initiation.
- An account, story, book, film, or play, often with the theme of crime or murder, with a surprise ending that explains all the strange events that have occurred.
- Something secret or unexplainable; an unknown.
- Someone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature.
- a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie
- something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
noun
- An intricate plot to catch the unwary.
- The European spotted flycatcher, Muscicapa striata.
- (informal, usually in the plural) fuzzy inexact memories.
- One of its filaments; gossamer.
- (figurative) Something thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; valueless remainder.
- A spiderweb, or the remains of one, especially an asymmetrical one that is woven with an irregular pattern of threads.
- (Internet slang, rare) A web page that either has not been updated for a long time, or that is rarely visited.
- a fabric so delicate and transparent as to resemble a web of a spider
- filaments from a web that was spun by a spider
- a dense elaborate spider web that is more efficient than the orb web
noun
- a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue
- a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot)
- A secret plot.
- (derogatory) A putative, secret organization of individuals gathered for a political purpose.
- An identifiable group within the tradition of Discordianism.
verb
noun
- a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue
- a dissenting clique
- (literature, film) A form of literature, film etc., that treats real people or events as if they were fiction; a mix of fact and fiction.
- The facts found in fiction.
- (countable) A group of people, especially within a political organization, which expresses a shared belief or opinion different from people who are not part of the group.
- (uncountable) Strife; discord.
verb
- form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner
- cause to be interested or curious
- (transitive) To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
- (transitive) To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.
- (intransitive) To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
- (intransitive) To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
noun
- a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends
- a clandestine love affair
- The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters.
- A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to affect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
- Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison or affair.
noun
noun
- a person who devises plots or intrigues
- a person who specializes in interior design
- someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings)
- someone who designs clothing
- someone who specializes in graphic design
- A person who designs something, or who designs things as a profession.
- (computing) A software tool for designing things.
- A plotter or schemer.
adj
noun
- (uncountable) Cunning and artifice in general.
- Specifically, such a tactic or artifice in military operation.
- (uncountable) Military deception or artifice.
- A tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception.
- an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
- a maneuver in a game or conversation
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
- An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
- A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
- A bishop's standard staff of office.
- A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
- A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.
- A pothook.
- A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
- A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
- (music) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
- a circular segment of a curve
- a long staff with one end being hook shaped
- someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
adj
verb
noun
- The act of sneaking
- 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
- (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
adj
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
verb
- form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner
- encourage or assent to illegally or criminally
- (intransitive, botany, rare) Of parts of a plant: to be converging or in close contact; to be connivent.
- (intransitive) To secretly cooperate with other people in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire.
verb
- form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner
- cause to be interested or curious
- (transitive) To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
- (transitive) To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.
- (intransitive) To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
- (intransitive) To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
noun
- a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends
- a clandestine love affair
- The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters.
- A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to affect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
- Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison or affair.
verb
noun
- a schematic or preliminary plan
- an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world
- a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
- an elaborate and systematic plan of action
- a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole
- (Internet) Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.
- A systematic plan of future action.
- An orderly combination of related parts.
- (astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
- (mathematics) A mathematical structure that generalizes the notion of an algebraic variety in several ways, such as taking account of multiplicities and allowing "varieties" defined over any commutative ring. Formally, a locally ringed space that admits a covering by open sets, each of which is isomorphic to an affine scheme (i.e. the spectrum of some commutative ring).
- (UK, chiefly Scotland, colloquial) A council housing estate.
- A plot or secret, devious plan.
- A chart or diagram of a system or object.
- (UK, pensions) A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent members.
verb
- (figurative, intransitive) To intrigue, manipulate, plot, scheme
- (figurative, transitive) To guide, steer, manage purposefully
- (ambitransitive) To move (something, or oneself) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position.
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- act in order to achieve a certain goal
- perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense
noun
- (military) The planned movement of troops, vehicles etc.; a strategic repositioning; (later also) a large training field-exercise of fighting units.
- A controlled (especially skillful) movement taken while steering a vehicle.
- (medicine) A specific medical or surgical movement, often eponymous, done with the doctor's hands or surgical instruments.
- A movement of the body, or with an implement, instrument etc., especially one performed with skill or dexterity.
- Any strategic or cunning action; a stratagem.
- an action aimed at evading an opponent
- a military training exercise
- a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill
- a move made to gain a tactical end
- a plan for attaining a particular goal
verb
- To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
- (mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
- (fishing) To fish with a jig.
- To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
- To sing to the tune of a jig.
- To skip school or be truant.
- To move briskly, especially as a dance.
- To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.
- dance a quick dance with leaping and kicking motions
noun
- (music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
- (mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
- (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
- A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.
- (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.
- (traditional English Morris dance) A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
- a device that holds a piece of machine work and guides the tools operating on it
- a fisherman's lure with one or more hooks that is jerked up and down in the water
- any of various old rustic dances involving kicking and leaping
- music in three-four time for dancing a jig
verb
- influence by slyness
- deal with simultaneously
- throw, catch, and keep in the air several things simultaneously
- manipulate by or as if by moving around components
- hold with difficulty and balance insecurely
- To manipulate objects, such as balls, clubs, beanbags, rings, etc. in an artful or artistic manner. Juggling may also include assorted other circus skills such as the diabolo, devil sticks, hat, and cigar box manipulation as well.
- To handle or manage many tasks at once.
- (ambitransitive) To deceive by trick or artifice.
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- secret and sly or sordid
- marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed
- Of a person or an animal: sly, stealthy.
- Of a person, etc.: inclined to steal; pilfering, thieving.
- Of a thing: done with evasive or guilty secrecy.
- Of a thing: that has been acquired by theft; stolen; also (generally) taken stealthily.
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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
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- Cunning, sly.
- (chiefly philosophy) With a worldview synthesizing many different ideas.
- (informal) Attractive, sexy (of a woman).
- Having the qualities of a fox.
- (of wine) Having an animal-like odor.
- (of a person, especially a woman) Having reddish-brown hair.
- (art) Using too much of the reddish-brown colors.
- marked by skill in deception