different between cheat vs uncheatable

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

un- +? cheatable (in turn from cheat +? -able).

Adjective

uncheatable (not comparable)

1. Not subject to cheating, impossible to cheat (at).
   • 2002, George W. Barlow, The Cichlid Fishes: Nature’s Grand Experiment In Evolution,^[1] Da Capo Press, ?ISBN, page 100:

     Amoz Zahavi^[sic] argued, however, that natural selection should favor signals that cannot be cheated.³² Uncheatable signals carry a cost, a handicap.

   • 2005, Song Han, Elizabeth Chang, and Jie Wang, “Attack on Undeniable Partially Blind Signatures”, Andrew Blyth (editor), EC2ND 2005: Proceedings Of The First European Conference on Computer Network Defence, School Of Computing, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK, Birkhäuser (2006), ?ISBN, page 143,

     We show that the signer can disavow any valid signature to the verifier. In other words, we show that the disavowal of their scheme is not uncheatable.

Anagrams

• unteachable