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trick
English
Etymology
Uncertain.
- Perhaps from From Middle English *trikke, from Old Northern French trique (related to Old French trichier; French: tricher), itself possibly from Middle High German trechen (“to launch a shot at, play a trick on”), but the Old French verb more likely is derived from Vulgar Latin *tricc?re, from Late Latin tric?re, from Latin tr?cor, tr?c?r? (“behave in an evasive manner, search for detours; trifle, delay”).
- Alternatively, perhaps from Dutch trek (“a pull, draw, trick”), from trekken (“to draw”), from Middle Dutch trekken, tr?ken (“to pull, place, put, move”), from Old Dutch *trekkan, *trekan (“to move, drag”), from Proto-Germanic *trakjan?, *trekan? (“to drag, scrape, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg- (“to drag, scrape”).
If the second proposal is correct, the term is cognate with Low German trekken, Middle High German trecken, trechen, Danish trække, and Old Frisian trekka, Romanian truc and other Romance languages.
Compare track, treachery, trig, and trigger.
Pronunciation
- enPR: tr?k, IPA(key): /t??k/, [t??????k], [t?????k]
- Rhymes: -?k
Noun
trick (plural tricks)
- Something designed to fool or swindle.
- A single element of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act; a magic trick.
- An entertaining difficult physical action.
- 1995, All Aboard for Space: Introducing Space to Youngsters (page 158)
- Yo-yo tricks involving sleeping the yo-yo (like "walking the dog" and "rocking the baby") cannot be performed in space.
- 1995, All Aboard for Space: Introducing Space to Youngsters (page 158)
- An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.
- Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Prior to this entry?)
- (dated) A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait.
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, King John Act I, scene I
- He hath a trick of Cœur de Lion's face.
- 1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear act IV, scene VI:
- The trick of that voice I do well remember.
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, King John Act I, scene I
- A knot, braid, or plait of hair.
- I cannot tell , but it stirs me more than all your court curls , or your spangles , or your tricks
- (card games) A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined.
- (slang) A sex act, chiefly one performed for payment; an act of prostitution.
- 1988, John H. Lindquist, Misdemeanor Crime: Trivial Criminal Pursuit, page 43:
- Perhaps the most important thing a prostitute learns is how to "manage" the client; how to con him into spending more money than he planned. Learning how to perform tricks takes only a few minutes. Learning how to "hustle" the client takes longer.
- 2010, Richard Gill, Paloma Azul, page 139:
- "How did you get into all this?" "I started doing tricks when I was young and I don't mean the magic circle. I learned about sex from an early age. There was nothing else to do in Pitsea except heavy petting and getting F grades at school."
- 2019, Julie S. Draskoczy, Belomor: Criminality and Creativity in Stalin’s Gulag:
- When he later asked her to strip and perform tricks for him, she refused, and he chased her away. She had similar experiences with other men until she eventually fell into prostitution: […]
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:trick.
- 1988, John H. Lindquist, Misdemeanor Crime: Trivial Criminal Pursuit, page 43:
- (slang) A customer to a prostitute.
- 2011, Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life (page 99)
- Ten minutes after she got down she broke luck. A white trick in a thirty-seven Buick picked her up. I timed her. She had racehorse speed.
- 2011, Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life (page 99)
- A daily period of work, especially in shift-based jobs.
- 1899, New York (State), Bureau of Statistics, Deptartment of Labor, Annual Report:
- Woodside Junction—On 8 hour basis, first trick $60, second trick $60, third trick $50.
- 1949, Labor arbitration reports, page 738
- The Union contends that Fifer was entitled to promotion to the position of Group Leader on the third trick in the Core Room Department.
- 1899, New York (State), Bureau of Statistics, Deptartment of Labor, Annual Report:
- (nautical) A sailor's spell of work at the helm, usually two hours long.
- A toy; a trifle; a plaything.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim
- the tricks and toyes that in them lurke,
- 1599, William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim
Synonyms
- (something designed to fool): artifice, con, gambit, ploy, rip-off, See also Thesaurus:deception
- (magic trick): illusion, magic trick, sleight of hand
- (customer to a prostitute): john, see also Thesaurus:prostitute's client
- (entertaining difficult physical action):
- (daily period of work): shift
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
trick (third-person singular simple present tricks, present participle tricking, simple past and past participle tricked)
- (transitive) To fool; to cause to believe something untrue; to deceive.
- (heraldry) To draw (as opposed to blazon - to describe in words).
- They forget that they are in the statutes: […] there they are trick'd, they and their pedigrees.
- To dress; to decorate; to adorn fantastically; often followed by up, off, or out.
- 1735, Alexander Pope, Of the Characters of Women
- Trick her off in air.
- 1693, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education
- Tricking up their children in fine clothes.
- 1825, Thomas Macaulay, An Essay on John Milton
- They are simple, but majestic, records of the feelings of the poet; as little tricked out for the public eye as his diary would have been.
- 1735, Alexander Pope, Of the Characters of Women
Synonyms
- (to fool): con, dupe, fool, gull, have, hoodwink, pull the wool over someone's eyes, rip off
- (to trick out): mod
- See also Thesaurus:deceive
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
trick (comparative tricker, superlative trickest)
- Involving trickery or deception.
- Able to perform tricks.
- Defective or unreliable.
- (chiefly US, slang) Stylish or cool.
Danish
Etymology
From English trick.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [?t?????]
Noun
trick (singular definite tricket, plural indefinite trickene)
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Synonyms
- kneb
Further reading
- “trick” in Den Danske Ordbog
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measure
English
Etymology
From Middle English mesure, from Old French mesure, from Latin m?ns?ra (“a measuring, rule, something to measure by”), from m?nsus, past participle of m?t?r? (“to measure, mete”). Displaced native Middle English m?te, mete (“measure”) (from Old English met (“measure”), compare Old English mitta (“a measure”)), Middle English ameten, imeten (“to measure”) (from Old English ?metan, ?emetan (“to mete, measure”)), Middle English hof, hoof (“measure, reason”) (from Old Norse h?f (“measure, reason”)), Old English m?þ (“measure, degree”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m???/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?m???/
- (regional US) IPA(key): /?me???/
- Rhymes: -???(?)
- Hyphenation: meas?ure; mea?sure
Noun
measure (plural measures)
- A prescribed quantity or extent.
- (obsolete) Moderation, temperance. [13th-19th c.]
- c. 1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman, I:
- Mesure is medcynee · þou? þow moche ?erne.
- 1611, Bible, Authorized Version, Jer. XXX:
- I will correct thee in measure, and will not leaue thee altogether vnpunished.
- c. 1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman, I:
- A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.) [from 14th c.]
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, V:
- Full to the utmost measure of what bliss Human desires can seek or apprehend.
- 2009, Mike Selvey, The Guardian, 25 Aug 2009:
- They have gloried to this day, the tedious interminable big-screen replays of that golden summer irritating beyond measure.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, V:
- An (unspecified) portion or quantity. [from 16th c.]
- 2013, Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban (in The Guardian, 6 September 2013)[1]:
- It ended up being a bittersweet night for England, full of goals to send the crowd home happy, buoyed by the news that Montenegro and Poland had drawn elsewhere in Group H but also with a measure of regret about what happened to Danny Welbeck and what it means for Roy Hodgson's team going into a much more difficult assignment against Ukraine.
- 2013, Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban (in The Guardian, 6 September 2013)[1]:
- (obsolete) Moderation, temperance. [13th-19th c.]
- The act or result of measuring.
- (now chiefly cooking) A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance. [from 14th c.]
- A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion. [from 14th c.]
- Any of various standard units of capacity. [from 14th c.]
- A unit of measurement. [from 14th c.]
- 1993, Scientific American February 33.3:
- The fragments shrank by increments of about three kilodaltons (a measure of molecular weight).
- 1993, Scientific American February 33.3:
- The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.) [from 14th c.]
- The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
- (now rare) The act or process of measuring. [from 14th c.]
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements. [from 16th c.]
- (mathematics, now rare) A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; a divisor or factor. [from 16th c.]
- the greatest common measure of two or more numbers
- (geology) A bed or stratum. [from 17th c.]
- coal measures; lead measures
- (mathematics) A function that assigns a non-negative number to a given set following the mathematical nature that is common among length, volume, probability and the like. [from 20th c.]
- (now chiefly cooking) A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance. [from 14th c.]
- Metrical rhythm.
- (now archaic) A melody. [from 14th c.]
- (now archaic) A dance. [from 15th c.]
- (poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot. [from 15th c.]
- a poem in iambic measure
- (music) A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar. [from 17th c.]
- A course of action.
- (in the plural) Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans. [from 17th c.]
- A piece of legislation. [from 18th c.]
- (in the plural) Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans. [from 17th c.]
Synonyms
- (musical designation): bar
- (unit of measurement): metric
Hyponyms
- (mathematics): positive measure, signed measure, complex measure, Borel measure, ?-finite measure, complete measure, Lebesgue measure
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
measure (third-person singular simple present measures, present participle measuring, simple past and past participle measured)
- To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
- To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement)
- To estimate the unit size of something.
- To judge, value, or appraise.
- To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
- (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
- 1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds
- "And for a very sensible reason; there never was but one like her; or, that is, I have always thought so until to-day," replied the tar, glancing toward Natalie; "for my old eyes have seen pretty much everything they have got in this little world. Ha! I should like to see the inch of land or water that my foot hasn't measured."
- 1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds
- To adjust by a rule or standard.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- To secure a contented spirit, you must measure your desires by your fortune and condition, not your fortunes by your desires
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out or off.
- With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
- That portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun.
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- “measure”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- measure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- measure in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- measure at OneLook Dictionary Search
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- Reaumes
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