(n.) An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
(n.) One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a cheater.
(n.) A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; -- called also chess. See Chess.
(n.) The obtaining of property from another by an intentional active distortion of the truth.
(n.) To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle.
(n.) To beguile.
(v. i.) To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards.
(n.) Wheat, or bread made from wheat.
Example Sentences:
(1) 12 October China’s quality watchdog says it is “highly concerned” about the cheat device in VW’s diesel cars.
(2) "I always thought it would be the Colombians who would cheat me out of the money, but they made good," Juan told the magazine.
(3) We’re prepared to inform international society about the steps we’re taking, the investigation, the decisions.” Pound’s report, commissioned in the wake of a devastating documentary by the German journalist Hajo Seppelt for ARD in December last year, outlined systemic cheating on a grand scale including a second “shadow lab” that was used to screen samples, anti-doping labs infiltrated by secret service agents and positive tests covered up for cash.
(4) No evidence of systematic cheating has been found in the tests administered by the four other main providers of English language tests in Britain.
(5) For a "free form" class project in senior year I did a quiz show-style performance piece based on her life ("Ted Hughes cheated on Sylvia Plath: True or False?")
(7) Perspective needed on migration and the UK | Letters Read more “Experience tells us that employers who are prepared to cheat employment rules are also likely to breach health and safety rules and pay insufficient tax.
(8) The report of the inquiry, which helped bring down the Irish government of the day, found fraud and serious illegality in Goodman's companies in the 1980s that had involved not just the faking of documents, but also the commissioning of bogus official stamps, including those of other countries, to misclassify carcasses; passing off of inferior beef trimmings as higher-grade meat; cheating of customs officers; and institutionalised tax evasion.
(9) It has been a long time for me to be playing football and I didn’t want to cheat them or anyone.
(10) But a report sent from the research centre to the directorate as far back as 2010 warned that its testing had found potential cheating by a car-maker.
(11) During a subsequent session we were told that if we had cheated during the test we were putting lives at risk.
(12) It is about whether Mr Woolas should be disqualified for cheating.
(13) The NT makes an ambitious and worthwhile argument: the evidence of a misaligned system of food production is evident at almost every stage – in polluted watercourses and compacted land, in horsemeat passed off as beef and foreign produce repackaged and traded as British, in gangmasters cruelly exploiting migrant labour, and the processing industry cheating on quality.
(14) With Redknapp's and Mandaric's trial now over, it can be revealed that as a result of Operation Apprentice, Storrie was prosecuted, charged with cheating the public revenue in relation to the alleged payment to Faye, and that he and Mandaric were also tried for tax evasion over an alleged termination fee paid to the midfielder Eyal Berkovic via a company, Medellin Enterprises, registered in the British Virgin Islands.
(15) How big a problem is cheating and plagiarism among students?
(16) Everyone seemed to be cheating and the instructors weren't doing anything to stop it.
(17) Yet at HMRC it was decided that prominent British individuals found to be cheating on their taxes would not be prosecuted, a process which would have led to them being named and the facts coming out.
(18) Guenter Verheugen, the enlargement commissioner who helped Cyprus into the EU, told the European parliament yesterday he felt "disappointed" and "cheated" by the Greek-Cypriot government.
(19) Leicester City’s dash to an unlikely Premier League title is billed as football’s most romantic story in a generation but the Football League is still investigating the club’s 2013-14 promotion season amid strong concerns from other clubs they may have cheated financial fair play rules.
(20) Tribunal cases against tax cheats should be handled more quickly – many tax cases can take a decade to resolve and the first-tier tribunals have a backlog of 30,000 cases waiting to be heard.
Fub
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Fubs
(v. t.) To put off by trickery; to cheat.
Example Sentences:
(1) FUB 1 specifically recognises both native and denatured bovine carbonic anhydrase in ELISA assays.
(2) We reported a new monoclonal antibody, designated FUB-1, reacting with normal and neoplastic large lymphoid cells.
(3) In the normal lymphoid tissue, FUB-1 reacted with large lymphoid cells, but not with small or medium-sized lymphoid cells or plasma cells.
(4) FUB-1 also reacted with normal glandular epithelium and various adenocarcinomas.
(5) Carbonic anhydrase (CA) from mouse erythrocyte membranes is recognised as an autoantigen in Western blotting experiments with FUB 1, a murine IgM monoclonal antibody that binds both phosphatidylcholine and bromelain-treated mouse red blood cells (BrMRBC).
(6) The serological identity of the determinants of CA and BrMRBC was confirmed by specific absorption of both FUB 1 and LPS-serum with BrMRBC and normal mouse erythrocytes.
(7) Systematic examination of model-dependent predictions of changes in the hepatic extraction ratio (E), following alteration in the unbound fraction of drug in plasma (fub), should allow sensitive discrimination between the venous equilibrium model (model I) and the sinusoidal perfusion model (model II) of hepatic sinusoidal function if drugs which show high clearance of free drug are used.
(8) From SDS-PAGE, and blotting experiments with whole mouse erythrocytes, we found two closely spaced glycoprotein bands in the 30 kD region that reacted with both FUB 1 and LPS-serum.
(9) Conversely, data for phenytoin (E = 0.69 at fub = 1) failed to discriminate between models, as predicted by our analysis.
(10) Specifically, data related to diazepam (E = 0.95 at fub = 1) clearly conformed to the predictions of the sinusoidal perfusion model and differed markedly from those of the venous equilibrium model.
(11) The mutations, fub-1(b45) and fub-1(b126), were independently isolated from progeny of gamma-irradiated females.
(12) In fub-1 mutants, in which myofibrils are disorganized in all skeletal muscle cells, the MP appear and elongate normally, but ordered actin filament bundles are not seen.
(13) In addition, the FUB-1 antigen was not found in resting cells in the peripheral blood (PB), but it was induced on mononuclear cells of PB by addition of PWM or PMA.
(14) FUB-1 may be useful to investigate the mechanism of in vitro blastoid transformation or activation of lymphoid cells.
(15) These findings indicate that the FUB-1 antigen appears to be expressed on normal lymphoid cells during blastoid transformation and on neoplastic large lymphoid cells.
(16) FUB-1 was produced using a Burkitt's lymphoma cell line (HBL-5) as an immunogen.
(17) Carbonic anhydrases from a range of mammalian species were found to be crossreactive with FUB 1 and LPS-serum by Western blotting, whereas human glycophorin A and human asialoglycophorin were not recognised by the antibodies.