trick

Significat

Noun

1. Something designed to fool or swindle.
2. A single element of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act; a magic trick.
3. An entertaining difficult physical action.
4. An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.
5. Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank.
6. A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait.
7. A knot, braid, or plait of hair.
8. A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined.
9. (slang) A sex act, chiefly one performed for payment; an act of prostitution.
10. (slang) A customer or client of a prostitute.
11. (slang) A term of abuse.
12. A daily period of work, especially in shift-based jobs.
13. A sailor's spell of work at the helm, usually two hours long.
14. (obsolete) A toy; a trifle; a plaything.
15. A representation of arms that is drawn as an outline with labels to indicate colors.

Verb

1. To fool; to cause to believe something untrue; to deceive.
2. To draw (as contrasted with to blazon, which is to describe in words).
3. To dress; to decorate; to adorn fantastically; often followed by up, off, or out.
4. To engage in prostitution or casual sex.

Adj

1. Involving trickery or deception.
2. Able to perform tricks.
3. Defective or unreliable.
4. (slang) Stylish or cool.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/tɹɪk/

Etimologia

From Middle English trikke, from Old Northern French trique (related to Old French trichier (“to defraud, act dishonestly, conceal, deceive, cheat”); > modern French tricher), itself possibly from Middle High German trechen (“to launch a shot at, play a trick on”), or one of its derivatives (e.g. Middle High German ūftrechen (“to do something to someone, hurt someone”), vertrechen (“to conceal, get over on someone”), zuotrechen (“to obtain falsely or deceitfully, wangle, finagle”), etc.); yet the Old French verb is equally likely to be derived from Vulgar Latin *triccāre, from Late Latin tricāre, from Latin trīcor, trīcārī (“dodge, search for detours; haggle, quibble”).
The term has been connected to Middle Dutch treck, trec (“draw, line, desire, game move, cord, stratagem, ruse, trick”), from Middle Dutch trekken, trēken (“to pull, place, put, move”), from Old Dutch *trekken, *trekan (“to move, drag”), from Proto-Germanic *trakjaną, *trekaną (“to drag, scrape, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg- (“to drag, scrape”). If they are related, trick would be 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.