trick

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Oh a nice trick to keep the iPhone doing X?

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Quick take

a cunning or deceitful action or device; "he played a trick on me"; "he pulled a fast one and got away with it"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of trick gathered in one view.

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 period of work or duty

noun

an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent; "that offer was a dirty trick"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for trick.

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 period of work or duty

noun

an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent; "that offer was a dirty trick"

noun

a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement

See also: antic, joke, prank, caper, put-on

noun

an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

noun

a prostitute's customer

See also: whoremaster, whoremonger, john

noun

(card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner

verb

deceive somebody; "We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week"

Example sentences

Oh a nice trick to keep the iPhone doing X?

Double billing for a single service is a neat trick if you can pull it off.

The reporter tried every trick in the book, and none worked.

These kinds of installers trick people into installing things they would never install by choice.

Why is tricking somebody into giving you full access to their computer any different?

Also, much like legal contracts can still trick the literate, these installers can trick even technically proficient users who weren't expecting to suddenly have to engage in a battle of wits with their computer.

It is blatant in what was done because even by the low standards of much of corporate America it is pretty depraved to knowingly scheme to trick a young company into giving over its valuable company jewels while planning along to steal them.

The idea that the character of the whistleblowers themselves has anything to do with the quality or impact of the information they leak is a propaganda trick enforced by the media-- a leak with a face can be discredited if the face can be discredited, and in the 21st century, everyone has skeletons in the closet.