What's the difference between abovedeck and artifice?

Abovedeck


Definition:

  • (a.) On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice.

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Artifice


Definition:

  • (n.) A handicraft; a trade; art of making.
  • (n.) Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work.
  • (n.) Artful or skillful contrivance.
  • (n.) Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. [Now the usual meaning.]

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The authors describe a technical artifice, the use silicon-impregnated compresses, to help in the peroperative ultrasonographic detection of these section planes.
  • (2) The seriousness and sincerity were almost shocking in that den of artifice.
  • (3) More recently, Iain Sinclair, in his novel Dining on Stones, an elegy to the A13, describes it as: "A landscape to die for: haze lifting to a high clear morning, pylons, distant road, an escarpment of multi-coloured containers, a magical blend of nature and artifice."
  • (4) As I signed up, I decided to ask Martha a few questions to see how much of her was artifice.
  • (5) All of the suffering in Europe – inflicted in the service of a man-made artifice, the euro – is even more tragic for being unnecessary.
  • (6) There never will be sufficient financial resources, organizational artifice, or measurable standards to safeguard quality any other way.
  • (7) Poisonous and deleterious components are deemed to be "added," even if they are natural constituents of food, if any amount is present through the artifice of man.
  • (8) As such, the migration amendment bill seeks to implement a staggering legal artifice for a nation that claims to walk tall among the civilised.
  • (9) Technical artifices are described to assist compliance with these imperatives.
  • (10) "These are legal artifices created to result in paying less tax," he said.
  • (11) But this operation imposes technical artifices when direct urtero-vesical implantation is not possible.
  • (12) Close friends say this is not artifice, but reflects his personality; in any case positioning himself as the polar opposite of the frequently choleric Sarkozy has paid off in the polls.
  • (13) The less visible in the context of individual's facial architecture the more esthetic the prosthetic artifice is.
  • (14) It's almost as though the more outmoded a politician becomes, the more artifice is required to keep him fresh.
  • (15) We think that this artifice could also be used in case of anatomic variations of the hepatic artery like trifurcation.
  • (16) The essence of camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration.
  • (17) Barnard's unusual technique, highlighting the artifice in film-making, showed that no single person has a monopoly on truth – and certainly not the documentary director who shapes truth into a narrative in the editing process.
  • (18) The proper manoeuvres and artifices to avoid intraoperative accidents are suggested.
  • (19) Remarkable for its relentless skewering of artifice and pretension, Lucky Jim also contains some of the finest comic set pieces in the language.
  • (20) As Susan Sontag wrote, camp is artifice and theatricality and flamboyance.

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