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imposition
English
Etymology
From Middle English imposicioun, from Old French imposicion, from Latin impositio
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?m.p??z???n/
Noun
imposition (countable and uncountable, plural impositions)
- The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
- That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined.
- An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put or laid on others.
- (printing) Arrangement of a printed product’s pages on the printer's sheet so as to have the pages in proper order in the final product.
- (religion) A practice of laying hands on a person in a religious ceremony; used e.g. in confirmation and ordination.
- (Britain) A task imposed on a student as punishment.
Synonyms
- (act of imposing and the like): imposure, infliction, obtrusion
- (that which is imposed, levied, or enjoined): burden, charge, enjoinder, injunction, tax
- (excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction): cheating, deception, delusion, fraud, imposture, trick
Translations
References
- imposition in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- imposition in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
French
Pronunciation
Noun
imposition f (plural impositions)
- imposition (all senses)
Middle English
Noun
imposition
- Alternative form of imposicioun
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cheat
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)
- (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
- Synonym: break the rules
- (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
- (transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed inevitable.
- (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)
- Someone who cheats.
- Synonym: (informal) cheater
- An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
- Synonyms: fraud, trick, imposition, imposture
- The weed cheatgrass.
- (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
- (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 […]
- 1992, Phil Howard, Cheat Mode (in Amstrad Action issue 76, January 1992, page 32)
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)
- (video games) cheat
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