different between deke vs dee

English

Etymology

Canadian English, a contraction of decoy.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?k
• IPA^(key): /di?k/

Noun

deke (plural dekes)

1. (ice hockey) A feint, fake, or other move made by the player with the puck to deceive a goaltender or defenceman.
   • 1971: Ice hockey: an illustrated guide for coaches by Gerald A. Walford

     Puck carriers will often use the blade of the hockey stick in timing a deke or fake (if one is used) to get around an opponent.

2. As in hockey, a fake or other move to confuse other players on a team.
   • 2017: Cut 4, "Andrelton Simmons used a great deke and some great throws to fool the Astros out of an inning" by Michael Clair

     Simmons casually leaned back as if he was going to let the throw go to third. That momentary hesitation made Correa think he could take off for second. Only problem? Simmons was simply laying in wait. He grabbed the ball and threw to first.... Even though Simmons was never the focal point of the play, one deke, one cutoff, and two throws later, he had tricked the Astros out of an inning.

3. (Canada, slang) A quick detour.

Translations

Verb

deke (third-person singular simple present dekes, present participle deking, simple past and past participle deked)

1. (Canada) To avoid, go around, or dodge an object, person, or conversation topic; often by using trickery.
2. (ice hockey) To execute a deke in ice hockey or other sports.
   • 1968: Make the Team in Ice Hockey by Ira Gitler

     The advantage is with the shooter from fifteen to twenty feet, but if you notice a weakness, you may want to fake a shot and "deke" to goalie.

   • 1973: Hockey Fever in Goganne Falls by R. J. Childerhose

     "Deke!" Joe would shout hoarsely. "You deke with your shoulder. Drop it like you were going that way!"

   • 2017: Simmons' deke leads to rundown

     Andrelton Simmons dekes out Carlos Correa to get him in a rundown, which eventually ends with Jose Altuve being tagged out at home.

See also

• body swerve

Anagrams

• deek, eked, keed

Esperanto

Etymology

dek + -e

Adverb

deke

1. tenthly

Pohnpeian

Noun

deke

1. island, islet, atoll
2. coral or reef island

English

Alternative forms

• de (Northumbria)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di?/

Verb

dee (third-person singular simple present diz, present participle deein, simple past and past participle dyun)

1. (Northumbria) To do.

   What are ye deein man!

References

• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[2]
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN

Noun

dee (plural dees)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter D.
2. Something shaped like the letter D, such as a dee lock.

   the pommel is furnished with dees.

3. (colloquial) Police detective.

   the dees are about.

Derived terms

• deejay

Translations

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed

Anagrams

• Ede

Aiwoo

Adverb

dee

1. (interrogative) when

References

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) , “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Bambara

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d????]

Noun

dee

1. child

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Chairel

Noun

dee

1. water

References

• W. McCulloch, Account of the Valley of Munnipore and of the Hill tribes with a comparative vocabulary of the Munnipore and other languages (1859, Calcutta: Bengal Printing Company)

Dutch Low Saxon

Etymology

Cognate with Dutch die.

Pronoun

dee

1. (relative) who, which, that

Estonian

Noun

dee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter D.

Finnish

Etymology

From Latin d? (“name of the letter D”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?de?/, [?de??]
• Rhymes: -e?
• Syllabification: dee

Noun

dee

1. The name of the Latin-script letter D.

Declension

Gokana

Noun

dee

1. day

References

• R. Blench, Comparative Ogonic

Italian

Noun

dee f

1. plural of dea

Verb

dee

1. (also poetic) Obsolete form of deve, third-person singular present indicative of dovere

Latin

Noun

dee

1. vocative singular of deus

Low German

Verb

dee

1. first-person singular past of doon

Maquiritari

Noun

dee

1. tree
2. wood

References

• Ed. Key, Mary Ritchie and Comrie, Bernard. The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Carib (De'kwana).

Middle English

Alternative forms

• dy, di, dei, de, dey

Etymology

From Old French dé, from Latin datum. Cognate with French dé.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de?/, /di?/, /d?i?/

Noun

dee (plural dees)

1. A die or dice (cube used in games and gambling)
2. A game which utilises or employs dice.
3. (rare) A piece or cube of diced food.
4. (rare) Something of little value.

Descendants

• English: die, dice
• Scots: die, dice

References

• “d??, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-17.

Scots

Etymology 1

Middle English, from Old English d??an (“to die”), from Proto-West Germanic *dauwjan (“to die”).

Compare English die, Danish dø, Norwegian Nynorsk døy, Norwegian Bokmål dø, Icelandic deyja, Swedish dö, Faroese doyggja.

Verb

dee (third-person singular present dees, present participle deein, past dee'd, past participle dee'd)

1. to die

Etymology 2

Verb

dee (third-person singular present dees, present participle deein, past dee'd, past participle dee'd)

1. Doric form of dae (“to do”)

Teop

Verb

dee

1. to carry

References

• Ulrike Mosel, The Teop sketch grammar

Võro

Noun

dee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter D.

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English deyen, from Old English d?e?an, from Old Norse deyja, from Proto-Germanic *dawjan?.

Verb

dee

1. die

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN