(n.) A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool.
(n.) One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural.
(n.) A person deficient in intellect; one who acts absurdly, or pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom; one without judgment; a simpleton; a dolt.
(n.) One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person.
(n.) One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments.
(v. i.) To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.
(v. t.) To infatuate; to make foolish.
(v. t.) To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; as, to fool one out of his money.
Example Sentences:
(1) After trading mistakes, Wawrinka got lucky at 30-30, mishitting a service return and fooling Djokovic.
(2) How opiates became the love of my life | Alisha Choquette Read more The numbers are not specific to the type of drug used, but we’d be fools to think opiates don’t lead the list.
(3) Sage did not suffer fools gladly, and often the world seemed increasingly full of them.
(4) But it is difficult not to conclude that the survey, which ends on St Andrew’s day, 30 November, has been something of a fools errand for those loyal driveway-trampers.
(5) The idea that these problems exist on the other side of the world, and that we Australians can ignore them by sheltering comfortably in our own sequestered corner of the globe, is a fool’s delusion.” Brandis sought to reach out to Australian Muslims, saying the threat came “principally from a small number of people among us who try to justify criminal acts by perverting the meaning of Islam”.
(6) "So don't be fooled again: you cannot afford Labour.
(7) The Peppers like to be jerks (at Dingwalls Swan dedicated a song to “all you whiney Britishers who can suck my American cock”), but don’t let the surface attitude fool you.
(8) So it is only a fool, like me, who would walk nonchalantly around the headland during a high wind.
(9) A few months later, the certificate was discovered being used in Iran to fool people who were accessing Gmail into thinking that their connection was secure; in fact any suitably equipped hacker could have monitored their emails.
(10) It's Jane Austen all over again, and we've just fooled ourselves that the complicated financial system has changed a thing.
(11) No sufferer of fools, he also found it difficult to put up with what he felt to be the arrogance of some colleagues.
(12) An immensely cerebral man, who trained himself to need only six hours of sleep - believing that a woman should have seven and only a fool eight - Mishcon was not a man given to small talk, nor one who would tolerate prattle for the sake of it.
(13) Standing Rock protests: this is only the beginning Read more “When the Dakota Access Pipeline breaks (and we know that too many pipelines do), millions of people will have crude-oil-contaminated water … don’t let the automatic sink faucets in your homes fool you – that water comes from somewhere, and the second its source is contaminated, so is your bathtub, and your sink, and your drinking liquid.
(14) He has been declared "a Shakespearean fool, the only one who can say what others can't" and "an antidote to the proliferation of neo-Nazi movements which took hold of Hungary and Greece".
(15) It helps to make testing fun, capitalizes on the student's natural tendency to fool around, and teaches something in the process.
(16) 7.44pm BST The April Fools' Day jokes have slowed as people actually get back to work, so we're going to sign off.
(17) He said: "To people of a certain age, Stuart Hall will be known as the presenter of It's A Knockout, a good-natured TV programme in which members of the public cheerfully made fools of themselves on camera.
(18) Although his finance minister François Baroin pledged on Friday night that there would be no more "austerity measures", only a fool, or someone who expected to be out of office later this year, would promise otherwise.
(19) In other words, Mr Johnson is making a fool of himself and of Britain over issues that will have the deepest national repercussions.
(20) Cue the day’s first SPR (silent printer rage): another four minutes eaten up by a printer refusing to be fooled by the off-on tactic.
Trick
Definition:
(a.) An artifice or stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as, a trick in trade.
(a.) A sly, dexterous, or ingenious procedure fitted to puzzle or amuse; as, a bear's tricks; a juggler's tricks.
(a.) Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank; as, the tricks of boys.
(a.) A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait; as, a trick of drumming with the fingers; a trick of frowning.
(a.) A knot, braid, or plait of hair.
(a.) The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players.
(a.) A turn; specifically, the spell of a sailor at the helm, -- usually two hours.
(a.) A toy; a trifle; a plaything.
(v. t.) To deceive by cunning or artifice; to impose on; to defraud; to cheat; as, to trick another in the sale of a horse.
(v. t.) To dress; to decorate; to set off; to adorn fantastically; -- often followed by up, off, or out.
(v. t.) To draw in outline, as with a pen; to delineate or distinguish without color, as arms, etc., in heraldry.
Example Sentences:
(1) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
(2) Trousers were cropped or rolled at the ankle, a styling trick that is emerging as a trend across the shows.
(3) When you score a hat trick in the first 16 minutes of a World Cup Final with tens of millions of people watching across the world, essentially ending the match and clinching the tournament before most players worked up a sweat or Japan had a chance to throw in the towel, your status as a sports legend is forever secure – and any favorable comparisons thrown your way are deserved.
(4) That was the thing that told against us in the end and we have to be serious about that.” In defence of the Corbyn camp’s plans to renationalise privatised industries, John McDonnell MP, who is the candidate’s campaign agent, said that privatisation had been “a confidence trick”.
(5) The announcement from the Congressional Budget Office, a research body, that health reform would cost $940bn (£627bn), which was less than had been expected, appears to have done the trick.
(6) It’s not going to change whether I score a hat-trick or don’t score at all.
(7) I don’t think it’s indicative of lower fish stocks, they just learned a new trick,” Mardisk F Leopold, who led the research, told the Guardian.
(8) It was his second hat-trick in four games and he has now scored 10 times in seven.
(9) "In the wake of Julio Baptista's quad-trick, which player has scored the most goals against Liverpool in one game at Anfield?"
(10) Christian Benteke has been revitalised under Sherwood and he followed up his hat-trick in last Tuesday’s 3-3 draw with Queens Park Rangers by scoring the winner here.
(11) He had to watch her score a hat-trick and lift the trophy on television instead.
(12) "So when you figure out that trick, that becomes how you attack anything bad.
(13) Highlight: Mike Magee’s opening day hat-trick against the team he ended the season with.
(14) Celebrities from Justin Bieber to Spike Lee were on hand for the opening of a spectacle that mixes circus tricks with the music of the late King of Pop – a pairing that has already proved lucrative for Cirque on the road with the arena show, Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour .
(15) Gordon Brown and David Cameron put the question of substance at the heart of the political battle yesterday, as the Tory leader accused his rival of relying on "short-term tricks" in place of long-term solutions.
(16) So it’s comforting to note that Spectre seems to be offering a significant upgrade: the trailer shows Q introducing Bond to his new ultra-speedy Aston Martin DB10, and promising it boasts a “few tricks”.
(17) It is impossible to trick your mind into veering away from the enormity of what happened in this tiny country in the centre of Africa.
(18) In the second world war, countries had their own encryption tools but now we share networks and tools, and if you can undermine the random number generator - if you can make it less random - and that’s what the NSA was doing by trying to trick, buy or persuade companies to make their encryption more breakable,” said Gellman.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest China dismisses Trump call with Taiwan as ‘small trick’ However, Beijing’s public response has so far been measured, with the foreign ministry lodging a “solemn representation” with Washington and the foreign minister, Wang Yi, downplaying the development as “a petty move” by Taiwan.
(20) Take, for example, the "trick" of combining instrumental data and tree-ring evidence in a single graph to "hide the decline" in temperatures over recent decades that would be suggested by a naive interpretation of the tree-ring record.