Word Meanings - TRICK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players. On one nice trick depends the general fate. Pope. (more info) draw; akin to LG. trekken, MHG. trecken, trechen, Dan. trække, and 1. An artifice

Additional info about word: TRICK

The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players. On one nice trick depends the general fate. Pope. (more info) draw; akin to LG. trekken, MHG. trecken, trechen, Dan. trække, and 1. An artifice or stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as, a trick in trade. tricks of the trade mean simply specialized knowledge, in a good or neutral sense. He comes to me for counsel, and I show him a trick. South. I know a trick worth two of that. Shak. 2. A sly, dexterous, or ingenious procedure fitted to puzzle or amuse; as, a bear's tricks; a juggler's tricks. 3. Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank; as, the tricks of boys. Prior. 4. A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait; as, a trick of drumming with the fingers; a trick of frowning. The trick of that voice I do well remember. Shak. He hath a trick of Coeur de Lion's face. Shak. 5. A knot, braid, or plait of hair. B. Jonson.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TRICK)

• Artifice
• manoeuvre
• cheat
• wile
• contrivance
• craft
• trick
• fraud
• machination
• punning
• imposture
• stratagem
• Cheat Overreach
• fleece
• silence
• gull
• cozen
• juggle
• defraud
• swindle
• dupe
• beguile
• deceive
• deprive
• hoodwink
• prevaricate
• dissemble
• shuffle
• inveigle
• Cheat
• Deception
• imposition
• artifice
• illusion
• finesse
• deceit
• lie
• fiction
• Counterfeit
• fabrication
• pretense
• ruse
• sham
• Deceit
• deception
• double dealing
• delusion
• circumvention
• guile
• bewilderment
• treachery
• insidiousness
• indirection
• duplicity
• cunning

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of TRICK)

• Enlighten
• guide
• remunerate
• compensate
• undeceive
• disabuse
• Expose
• unmask
• detect

Related words: (words related to TRICK)

• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• CRAFTY
  1. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. "Crafty work." Piers Plowman. 2. Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful. A noble crafty man of trees. Wyclif. 3. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.
• COZENAGE
  The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud. Shak.
• DETECTOR BAR
  A bar, connected with a switch, longer than the distance between any two consecutive wheels of a train , laid inside a rail and operated by the wheels so that the switch cannot be thrown until all the train is past the switch.
• DOUBLEGANGER
  An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
• ARTIFICER
  A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one
• DOUBLE
  Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally
• FINESSE
  The act of finessing. See Finesse, v. i., 2. (more info) 1. Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem. This is the artificialest piece of finesse to persuade men into slavery. Milton.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• DOUBLE-SHADE
  To double the natural darkness of . Milton.
• DOUBLE-LOCK
  To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security. Tatler.
• ILLUSIONABLE
  Liable to illusion.
• DEALBATION
  Act of bleaching; a whitening.
• DOUBLE DEALER
  One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange.
• CUNNINGNESS
  Quality of being cunning; craft.
• TRICK
  The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players. On one nice trick depends the general fate. Pope. (more info) draw; akin to LG. trekken, MHG. trecken, trechen, Dan. trække, and 1. An artifice
• DEFRAUD
  To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing
• JUGGLERESS
  1. A female juggler. T. Warton.
• DEALFISH
  A long, thin fish of the arctic seas .
• TRICKISH
  Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. -- Trick"ish*ly, adv. -- Trick"ish*ness, n.
• THYROIDEAL
  Thyroid.
• KINGCRAFT
  The craft of kings; the art of governing as a sovereign; royal policy. Prescott.
• ENTERDEAL
  Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.
• WOLLASTON'S DOUBLET
  A magnifying glass consisting of two plano-convex lenses. It is designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion.
• IDEALISTIC
  Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories.
• UNBEGUILE
  To set free from the influence of guile; to undeceive. "Then unbeguile thyself." Donne.