(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.
Flint
Definition:
(n.) A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel.
(n.) A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks.
(n.) Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint.
Example Sentences:
(1) Caroline Flint, a Labour MP and former cabinet minister, called for all corporate tax affairs to be made public.
(2) These data imply that Silvadene controls S aureus-generated burn wound infections better than the Flint product.
(3) HSBC’s shares have been on a rollercoaster ride since Gulliver and departing chairman Douglas Flint took charge six years ago, and are little changed from where they started out.
(4) Retreating to your lab and hoping it will all go away is not going to be the best strategy Andrew Rosenberg, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration In March, Bill Nye , the bow-tied embodiment of science for many Americans, and Mona Hanna-Attisha, a pediatrician who alerted the world to soaring levels of lead in the blood of children in Flint, Michigan, were named as honorary co-chairs.
(5) Caroline Flint, Labour's spokesperson for energy and climate change, said the Ofgem report showed why a price freeze is needed: "Labour's price freeze will save money for 27 million households and 2.4 million businesses and our plans to reset the market will deliver fairer prices in the future.
(6) 'Archaeology on steroids': huge ritual arena discovered near Stonehenge Read more Archaeologists have found evidence that a big tree fell over and its base provided a wall which was then lined with flint.
(7) Flint became the first Home Office minister to admit that she tried smoking dope while a student in the 80s, a fact she revealed when pushing reclassification of cannabis through the Commons.
(8) A 17-day, in situ, biomonitoring study using caged, juvenile channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) was conducted at five sites along a 9-km section of the Flint River at the Anthony Ragnone Wastewater Treatment Plant near Montrose, Michigan.
(9) Flint walked out in protest at not being offered a full cabinet post.
(10) He said Douglas Flint, chairman of HSBC, and Lord Blackwell, the new chairman of Lloyds Banking Group, would agree with his view that chairing a bank was a full-time role.
(11) But Brown says he worked "very, very closely" with Flint when she was housing minister.
(12) Figures close to Brown were irritated that Flint was finding time to pose for the cameras while they felt she had yet to master the highly intricate details of her brief as Europe minister.
(13) The people of the New England electorate, with Barnaby Joyce as their MP, had thought he would be able to protect the Liverpool Plains for them,” Lock the Gate Alliance spokeswoman Carmel Flint told reporters.
(14) Tempers frayed at the last debate in Flint, Michigan, at the weekend, when Clinton accused Sanders of voting against the auto industry bailout – a charge he vehemently denies and that appears not to have swayed voters at the centre of the US car industry.
(15) A controversy exists with regard to the relative efficacy of two preparations of silver sulfadiazine (AgSD), Silvadene and Flint's Silver Sulfadiazine Cream.
(16) When asked about this, Flint said: “Nobody wants to push the button.
(17) Caroline Flint, shadow energy and climate change secretary, said the referral underlined why her party was committed to breaking up the big six and freezing energy bills till 2017, should it win power in elections next year.
(18) Flint said five months was too long to wait; a new leader would boost Labour in the polls and attract new funding from supporters.
(19) The water crisis in Flint is a sobering reminder of America’s long history of disregard when it comes to the welfare of black bodies – I am not the first to note how eerily reminiscent it is of the Tuskegee Experiment in the 1970s, when hundreds of black men with syphilis were not told they had the disease so that US Public Health Services could study its progression.
(20) Flint said the public was fed up with hearing the "same old excuses" from the energy industry.