different between cheating vs misrepresentation

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?i?t??/

Verb

cheating

1. present participle of cheat

Noun

cheating (countable and uncountable, plural cheatings)

1. An act of deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, imposition or infidelity.
   • 1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Disowned

     the cheatings and impositions of your pitiful trade

2. (cinematography) The arrangement of people or items in a film so as to give the (false) impression that shots are taken from different angles in the same location.
   • 1965, Joseph V. Mascelli, The Five C’s of Cinematography.

     Cheating is the sixth C of Cinematography ... it is the art of arranging people, objects or actions, during filming or editing

Translations

Adjective

cheating (comparative more cheating, superlative most cheating)

1. Unsporting or underhand.
2. Unfaithful or adulterous.

See also

• Cheating in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• teaching

English

Etymology

mis- +? representation or misrepresent +? -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?s???p??z?n?te???n/

  Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

misrepresentation (countable and uncountable, plural misrepresentations)

1. Erroneous or false representation; an unfair or dishonest account or exposition; a false statement: as, to injure one's character by misrepresentations.
2. Incorrect or unfaithful representation in the capacity of agent or official representative, such as of a principal in a matter of business, or of constituents in legislation.
3. In map-making, faultiness in a map projection, estimated with regard to its unequal scale in different parts and to its distortion of angles.

Translations

Related terms

• misrepresent
• misrepresentative
• misrepresenter

References

• misrepresentation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• representationism