(n.) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
(v. t.) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form,, to prevent twisting when running out.
(v. t.) To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
(v. t.) To make; to construct; to do.
(v. t.) To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it.
(n.) A trick; a swindle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest With a plot based around fake (or real?)
(2) It’s clear which way the ultra-right community around Ukip wishes to go: their timelines are full of praise for Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders , and blazing with imagery – both real and fake – of migrant riots in France and Sweden.
(3) I said, ''It's the fake femininity I can't stand, and the counterfeit voice.
(4) Many other innovations are also being hailed as the future of food, from fake chicken to 3D printing and from algae to lab-grown meat.
(5) There is never any chink in her composure – any hint of tension – and while I can't imagine what it must feel like to be so at ease with one's world, I don't think she is faking it.
(6) There are no cases Money could uncover of people convicted for slipping a dodgy £1 into a vending machine or palming one off to their newsagent, but criminal gangs have been jailed for manufacturing fake coins.
(7) Computer says no: Amazon uses AI to combat fake reviews Read more “Imagine as the CEO of a major company you go off and spend £100m on gathering data,” Hammond says.
(8) Played out against the backdrop of the 1979 hostage crisis, Argo spins the account of a joint Hollywood-CIA mission to spring six imperiled Americans from revolutionary Iran, using a fake movie production as a decoy.
(9) Jim Devine, Labour MP for Livingston, was reportedly under investigation for invoices he submitted for electrical work worth more than £2,000 from a company with an allegedly fake address and an invalid VAT number.
(10) He said the allegations made in Iran's media are based on fabricated contents or fake accounts and are untrue.
(11) A pair of bizarre photographs have been widely circulated online, that appear to show alleged EgyptAir hijacker Seif Eldin Mustafa posing for pictures with passengers in what is believed to have been a fake suicide belt.
(12) When conservative outlets accused the site of censoring right-leaning news stories , Zuckerberg fired the trending stories team and replaced them with an algorithm – which almost immediately began to distribute fake news .
(13) The damning comments by Judge Alistair McCreath both vindicated Contostavlos – who insisted she was entrapped by the reporter into promising to arrange a cocaine deal – and potentially brought down the curtain on the long and controversial career of Mahmood, better known as the "fake sheikh" after one of his common disguises.
(14) At the end of the hearing Trump pointed to the testimony of James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, claiming that Clapper had “reiterated what everybody, including the fake media already knows – there is ‘no evidence’ of collusion with Russia and Trump”.
(15) Not only was the entire plot fake, but it seemed only Hussain's Islamic coaching, talk of cash rewards and constant attention was keeping it alive.
(16) Halderman received a fake $2m check from Letterman, went to work and was then arrested after leaving his office at CBS News.
(17) Plus we know that Facebook can already identify truly fake news – Zuckerberg pointed this out over the weekend.
(18) The Normandie Design is plum in the middle of the amiable chaos of South American city life, in Santa Efigênia, where the streets are thronged with tiny electronics stores – great if you fancy a fake Chinese iPhone.
(19) It was one of the fake tongue extensions from The Exorcist, with a note saying, 'Just stick a dab of peanut butter on the end and put it on.'
(20) And it helps you spot phishing emails, because if an email appears in your shopping account purporting to come from your bank, for example, you'll immediately know it's a fake.
Feint
Definition:
(a.) Feigned; counterfeit.
(a.) That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch.
(a.) A mock blow or attack on one part when another part is intended to be struck; -- said of certain movements in fencing, boxing, war, etc.
(v. i.) To make a feint, or mock attack.
Example Sentences:
(1) Inviting him on while feinting and flicking out the jab.
(2) The winger made Jonny Evans seem oafish as he feinted his way past him on the right and then glided 20 yards forward before racing into the box, past Jonas Olsson, and firing into the net despite an attempted block by Craig Dawson.
(3) The first of them came after 90 seconds, when, taking a free kick from the edge of the penalty box, his feint drew Johnston aside in the wall, whereupon Hidegkuti shot through the gap, to beat Gil Merrick, an erratic keeper that day.
(4) He feinted right, veered left, twisted sharp right.
(5) He brilliantly feints to shoot, throwing the Zambian defence off course, but having worked the opening, he drags his left-footed shot agonisingly past the right post.
(6) 49 mins Messi beats two defenders, takes another out of the game, feints one way and plays a lovely reverse pass in the box to.. no one.
(7) With one of those feints defenders hate, he bought a fraction and banged the ball in for the hat-trick.
(8) Speaking of fragile confidence… Johnson picks up the ball in the corner of the box cuts inside then feints and slides the ball on the inside of Irwin to score at the near post.
(9) A quickly taken free-kick was flicked on by Fernando Torres, also a substitute, and Correa made a clever feint that left Mascherano on the ground before firing home via a post.
(10) He's an incredible player and if you can acclimatise you can use the speed to your advantage: if, in the middle of that frenetic pace, you're good enough to apply pausa , put the brakes on, feint and send the opponent flying 10 metres past, that gives you a real advantage.
(11) High point A taut, terrifying Red Right Hand Low point The fact that Cave feints an encore before that very tune, declaring "goodnight Glastonbury" and going off for one minute before the ominous knell of Red Right Hand chimes.
(12) All three tumor cell lines were more sensitive to OHUrd than were the FeInt cells, whereas 5-FU was more toxic to the latter.
(13) To be sure, it was always going to be difficult for Christie to win over Republican primary voters – what with his willingness to shake hands with President Obama and his feint toward political moderation .
(14) Iwobi drove through the inside-left channel, played a nice nudged pass to Theo Walcott, who feinted for the byline then played a beautiful cutback for Joel Campbell to finish with great assurance.
(15) They should have opened the scoring within a minute when Messi danced past three players with a drop of the shoulder and a series of subtle feints to set up Higuaín, who side-footed wide from three yards.
(16) Ali called it his “rope-a-dope” trick – and the world caught its breath when finally he came off the ropes, feinted with his left and, with a single right hander, felled the bewildered Foreman.
(17) He feints past Keogh, attempting to drive into the area, but the Derby centre-back hangs out a leg to brink him down, giving QPR have a free-kick a few yards to the right of the D. It's in a promising position.
(18) The winger feinted past Finonchenko before sending a reasonable effort wide.
(19) Feint sucking in connection with a deficit of real sucking was observed regularly under bucket feeding conditions but only in those cases of automatic feeding, where the calves pushed each other aside from the feeding facilities.
(20) Fourier-based processing of one-dimensionally ordered arrays is described by way of introduction, before analysing two-dimensional crystals in projection with the aim of enhancing signal:noise ratio and thus of feint features that were initially obscured.