different between cheat vs amuser

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?i?t/
• Rhymes: -i?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English cheten, an aphetic variant of acheten, escheten, from Old French escheoiter, from the noun (see below). Displaced native Old English beswican.

Verb

cheat (third-person singular simple present cheats, present participle cheating, simple past and past participle cheated)

1. (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.

   Synonym: break the rules

2. (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.

3. (transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed inevitable.

4. (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.

   Synonyms: belirt, blench, lirt

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English chete, an aphetic form of eschete, escheat (“the reversion of property to the state if there are no legal claimants”), from Anglo-Norman escheat, Old French eschet, escheit, escheoit (“that which falls to one”), from the past participle of eschoir (“to fall”) (modern French échoir), from Vulgar Latin *excad?, from Latin ex + cad? (“I fall”).

Noun

cheat (plural cheats)

1. Someone who cheats.

   Synonym: (informal) cheater

2. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.

   Synonyms: fraud, trick, imposition, imposture
3. The weed cheatgrass.
4. (card games) A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.

   Synonyms: bullshit, BS, I doubt it

5. (video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.
   • 1992, Phil Howard, Cheat Mode (in Amstrad Action issue 76, January 1992, page 32)

     I've had a number of requests for a cheat for Turrican the first. Yes, there is a keypress built in […]

Synonyms

• double play

Translations

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? French: cheat
• ? German: Cheat

Further reading

• cheat (game) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• 'tache, Tache, Taché, Teach, Tâche, chate, he-cat, tache, teach, theca

French

Etymology

English cheat

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?it/

Noun

cheat m (plural cheats)

1. (video games) cheat

English

Etymology

From amuse +? -er.

Noun

amuser (plural amusers)

1. Someone who amuses.
2. (obsolete) One who diverts attention, usually to distract or bewilder, often for fraudulent purposes; hence a cheat, deceiver or thief.
3. (historical, early 19^th century) One of a class of rogues who carry snuff or dust in their pockets, which they throw into the eyes of people so as to enable their accomplices to rob them while pretending to help them.
   • 1993, Stella Cameron; Only by Your Touch, Harpercollins, page 88:

     He should have knowed better than to tangle with you, Miss Lindsay. Where did you learn to be an amuser, then?

   • 2002, various authors, Gangs of New York (film), Miramax Films, Entertainment Film Distributors:

     BOSS TWEED — No one important, necessarily. Average men will do. Back alley amusers with no affiliations.

   • 2013, Michelle Lovric; The Remedy, Bloomsbury, page 59:

     Valentine watches the bunch of amusers close around the politician, the leader already dipping into his pocket for the snuff to fling into the eyes of their victim.

Translations

Anagrams

• Maseru, Mauser, Semrau

French

Etymology

From Middle French amuser (“to amuse, divert, babble”), from Old French amuser (“to stupefy, waste time, be lost in thought”), from a- + muser (“to stare stupidly at, gape, wander, waste time, loiter, think carefully about, attend to”), of uncertain and obscure origin. Cognate with Occitan musa (“idle waiting”), Italian musare (“to gape idly about”). Possibly from Old French *mus (“snout”) from Vulgar Latin *m?sa (“snout”) (compare Medieval Latin m?sum (“muzzle, snout”)), from Proto-Germanic *m?- (“muzzle, snout”), from Proto-Indo-European *m?- (“lips, muzzle”). Compare German Maul (“muzzle, snout”).

An alternative etymology connects Old French muser and Occitan musa with Old High German muoza (“careful attention, leisure, idleness”), from Proto-Germanic *m?t? (“leave, permission”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to acquire, possess, control”). Compare also Old High German muoz?n (“to be idle, have leisure or opportunity”), German Muße (“leisure”). More at empty.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.my.ze/

Verb

amuser

1. (transitive) to amuse, to entertain
2. (reflexive, s'amuser) to have fun, to enjoy oneself

Conjugation

Derived terms

• amusant
• amusement
• amuse-gueule
• amusette
• amuseur
• s'amuser comme un petit fou

Descendants

• ? German: amüsieren

Further reading

• “amuser” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• masure, Maures, maures, mesura, mueras, musera, remuas, résuma, ruâmes

Norman

Alternative forms

• amûther (Saint Ouen)

Etymology

From Old French amuser (“to stupefy, waste time, be lost in thought”), from a- + muser (“to stare stupidly at, gape, wander, waste time, loiter, think carefully about, attend to”), of uncertain and obscure origin.

Verb

amuser

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