different between cheat vs lure

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 1

From Anglo-Norman lure, from Old French loirre (Modern French leurre), from Frankish *l?þr, from Proto-Germanic *l?þr-. Compare English allure, from Old French.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l(j)??/, /l??(?)/, /l??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /l???/, /l??/, /l?/
• Homophone: lore (some accents)
• Rhymes: -??(r)
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

lure (plural lures)

1. (also figuratively) Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
2. (fishing) An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish.
3. (falconry) A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk.
4. A velvet smoothing brush.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

Translations

Verb

lure (third-person singular simple present lures, present participle luring, simple past and past participle lured)

1. To attract by temptation etc.

   Synonym: entice

2. (falconry) To recall a hawk with a lure.

Related terms

• allure

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Icelandic lúðr

Noun

lure (plural lures)

1. A trumpet with long curved tube, used for calling cattle, etc.

Anagrams

• ReLU, Ruel, Rule, rule

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Adjective

lure

1. definite singular of lur
2. plural of lur

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German luren

Verb

lure (imperative lur, present tense lurer, passive lures, simple past lurte, past participle lurt, present participle lurende)

1. to deceive, trick
2. to lurk
3. to wonder (på / about)

References

• “lure” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Adjective

lure

1. definite of lur
2. plural of lur

Etymology 2

Verb

lure (present tense lurar or lurer, past tense lura or lurte, past participle lura or lurt, present participle lurande, imperative lur)

1. Alternative form of lura

Old French

Etymology

From Frankish

Noun

lure f (oblique plural lures, nominative singular lure, nominative plural lures)

1. lure (bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk)

Descendants

• English: lure

References

• lure on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub