different between sleight vs deception

English

Etymology

From Middle English sleight, sleght, sleythe, from Old Norse slœgð (“cunning”), from Proto-Germanic *sl?giþ?, from *sl?giz (“cunning”) (whence English sly). Doublet of slöjd/sloyd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sla?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t
• Homophones: slight

Noun

sleight (countable and uncountable, plural sleights)

1. Cunning; craft; artful practice.
2. An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation.
3. Dexterous practice; dexterity; skill.

Related terms

• sleight of hand
• sleightly
• sleighty

Translations

Anagrams

• Leights

Middle English

Etymology 1

Adjective

sleight

1. Alternative form of slight

Etymology 2

From Old Norse slœgð, from Proto-Germanic *sl?giþ?; equivalent to sly +? -th.

Alternative forms

• sleght, sleythe, sle?þe, sliþe, sleighte, scleighte, sleiht, sleþþe, sleyþe, slight, sle?t, slei?t, sly?t, sleigþe, sleygt, sleyt, sleiþe, sleyhte, slithe, sli?þe, slyghte, scli?t, sleihte, sleyght, sleyghte, slet, sley?te, sleyte, sli?t

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slixt/, /sl?i?xt/, /sl?i?ð/

Noun

sleight (plural sleightes)

1. Wit, shrewdness, judiciousness; the state of being wise.
2. Adeptness, expertise; knowledge in a certain area.
3. Tactics, plans, preparation; the act of readying.
4. A tactic, approach, method, or accomplishment.
5. Work, labour, might; that which is expended on a task.
6. Detail; the finer or more intricate points of something.
7. Cunning, sleight; craft; artful practice.
8. An artful or deceiving trick; a sly artifice.
9. (rare) Something of extreme attractiveness.

Derived terms

• sleighty
• sleightly

Descendants

• English: sleight
• Scots: slicht

References

• “sleight, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-05.

Adjective

sleight

1. Judicious, considered, shrewd; having or indicative of great wisdom.
2. Sly, artful, wily; employing or being an example of deception.

References

• “sleight, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-05.

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English slight, from Old English sliht.

Adjective

sleight

1. slight

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English decepcioun, from Old French decepcion, from Latin d?cipi? (“to deceive”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??s?p??n/

Noun

deception (countable and uncountable, plural deceptions)

1. An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead someone into believing a lie or inaccuracy.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:deception

Related terms

• deceive
• deceptive

Translations