Used in a Sentence

tricks

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for tricks.

Editorial note

The book is filled with tips and tricks to increase your charisma that can be applied right away.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.

noun

A single element of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act; a magic trick.

noun

Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for tricks.

noun

Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.

noun

A single element of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act; a magic trick.

noun

Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank.

noun

An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.

Example sentences

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The book is filled with tips and tricks to increase your charisma that can be applied right away.

2

Seems like they're still up to the same dirty, user-hostile tricks as they've always been since the 90's.

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C can just mmap the file and run straight across raw the bytes and take advantage of all kinds of cache tricks.

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And then you can also look at other people around you, and see that the same tricks still have power over them.

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And once you see them explicitly as tricks, they lose their power over you.

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Probably someone that was sick of techcrunch on HN made it for himself and there's no major conspiracy of password stealing or SEO tricks.

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I don't think those sort of tricks have a net positive impact on your numbers.

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There are lots of tricks you can use to color the facts of a story to get the audience to respond in a particular way.

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Using these newest techniques is very refreshing to me because it allows for all kinds of tricks that simply are not possible in your traditional modern polygon pipeline.

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But modern understandings of cognitive biases show how advertising works on deeper levels, and even works despite us knowing about the tricks that are being used on us.

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$50-100 credit would help me a lot to rent a GPU instance for many hours and learn a few new tricks.

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A couple of those are cited like this: > - Anonymous (sourced from Reddit replies to the original 2009 Dirty Coding Tricks article) So not anonymous at all then.

Quote examples

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However, in standard law (as far as I know), such tricks don't tend to stand up in court as the behaviour is considered "unreasonable".

2

It's the tricks that you describe that are the "fnords".

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The thing is, emojis were being used (appeared in the 90s), and spreading (how many people used various tricks and hacks to "unlock" emojis in older iOS versions despite not being in Japan?), so the unicode consortium could either standardise it, or see the number of proprietary extensions increase further and less and less people give a flying fuck about their registry.

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An entity that will unfortunately just hold it in a "bag of tricks" until they need it, or decide to play with it, or decide to litigate with, or decide to "license" out usage of it to another big player willing to fork over money for it.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use tricks in a sentence?

The book is filled with tips and tricks to increase your charisma that can be applied right away.

What does tricks mean?

Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.

What part of speech is tricks?

tricks is commonly used as noun.