feint

(Englisch)

Noun

1. (often) A movement made to confuse an opponent; a dummy.
2. A blow, thrust, or other offensive movement resembling an attack on some part of the body, intended to distract from a real attack on another part.
3. (figuratively) Something feigned; a false or pretend appearance; a pretence or stratagem.

Verb

1. (transitive) To direct (a blow, thrust, or other offensive movement resembling an attack) on some part of the body, intended to distract from a real attack on another part.
2. (rare, transitive) To direct a feint or mock attack against (someone).
3. (also, intransitive, often) To make a feint or mock attack.

Adj

1. (also, not-comparable, often) Of an attack or offensive movement: directed toward a different part from the intended strike.
2. (not-comparable, obsolete) Feigned, counterfeit, fake.

Adj

Of lines printed on paper as a handwriting guide: not bold; faint, light; also, of such paper: ruled with faint lines of this sort.

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/feɪnt/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Verwandt mit Italienisch: finta

Verwandt mit Okzitanisch: fencha

Verwandt mit Old Spanish: finta

Verwandt mit Spanisch: finta

In summary

The noun is borrowed from French feinte (“dummy, feint”), from feindre (“to fake, feign”), from Old French feindre, faindre, from Latin fingere, the present active infinitive of fingō (“to alter the truth to deceive, dissemble, feign, pretend; to fashion, form, shape”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Cognates
* Italian finta
* Occitan fencha, fenha
* Old Spanish finta (modern Spanish finta (“dummy, feint”))

Konzepte

Finte

Verstellung

Zurückhaltung

Täuschungsmanöver

Hemmen

Abhaltung

Hindern

täuschen

Synonyme

pretense

diversion

fake

simulation

pretence

trick

sham

deception

make believe

affectation

artifice

pretend

wile

ruse

false

feign

feigned

flanging

front

magic

🪄

maneuver

mislead

plant

🌱

pretension

red herring

restraint

screen

semitone

simulate

stratagem

strategem

wiles

feinted edge

pretense

act

pretence

affect

artificiality

check

constraint

deceive

deke

delude

disguise

disorientate

dissimulation

divert

dodge

faint

Übersetzungen

finta

feinte

finta

feinter

treta

finta

schijnbeweging

fare un attacco simulato

fare una finta

attacco simulato

amago

προσποιούμαι

voorwendsel

προσποίηση

fintar