A cunning or deceitful action or device
An artifice or stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent;
Noun
an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
Noun
a cunning or deceitful action or device; "he played a trick on me"; "he pulled a fast one and got away with it"
Noun
a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement
Noun
an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent; "that offer was a dirty trick"
Noun
a period of work or duty
Verb
deceive somebody; "We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week"
a.
An artifice or stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly
procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as, a trick in trade.
a.
A sly, dexterous, or ingenious procedure fitted to puzzle or
amuse; as, a bear's tricks; a juggler's tricks.
a.
Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank; as, the tricks of
boys.
a.
A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait; as, a
trick of drumming with the fingers; a trick of frowning.
a.
A knot, braid, or plait of hair.
a.
The whole number of cards played in one round, and
consisting of as many cards as there are players.
a.
A turn; specifically, the spell of a sailor at the helm, --
usually two hours.
a.
A toy; a trifle; a plaything.
v. t.
To deceive by cunning or artifice; to impose on; to
defraud; to cheat; as, to trick another in the sale of a horse.
v. t.
To dress; to decorate; to set off; to adorn
fantastically; -- often followed by up, off, or out.
v. t.
To draw in outline, as with a pen; to delineate or
distinguish without color, as arms, etc., in heraldry.
Trick
He comes to me for counsel, and I show him a trick.
I know a trick worth two of that.2.
The trick of that voice I do well remember.
He hath a trick of C&oe;ur de Lion's face.5.
On one nice trick depends the general fate.7.
Trick
People lavish it profusely in tricking up their children in fine clothes, and yet starve their minds.
They are simple, but majestic, records of the feelings of the poet; as little tricked out for the public eye as his diary would have been.3.
They forget that they are in the statutes: . . . there they are tricked, they and their pedigrees.
An artifice or stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent;
To deceive by cunning or artifice; to impose on; to defraud; to cheat;
Usage Examples
Suits are looked at more now as a business thing which is kind of a shame. If you're not wearing it just for work, you should try and trick it up a bit.
The trick at Le Mans is to get the car 'in the window.' Everything is critical: the tyre pressure, the brake temperature, and that means you have to push the car a lot to get it into the window - it's about getting everything to work right and getting the car to flow through the corners.
If you do a trick and it doesn't work out, that can stick with you. I like to go back, nail the trick, and, 'OK, I'm cool, it's all good.'
If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.
My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.
I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he's doing is easy is an occupational hazard.
Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.
The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.
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Other Usage ExamplesLife is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.
Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior.
It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there's a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures.
I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.
I love Halloween, trick or treating and decorating the house. And I love Thanksgiving, because of the football and the fall weather. And of course, I love Christmas - that's my favorite of all!
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