Artifice vs Dodge - What's the difference?
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a crafty but underhanded deception
a trick played out as an ingenious, but artful, ruse
a strategic maneuver that uses some clever means to avoid detection or capture
a tactical move to gain advantage
To avoid by moving suddenly out of the way.
(figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
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, chapter=2 (archaic) To go hither and thither.
(photography) To decrease the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them darker (compare burn).
To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
* Coleridge
Artifice is a related term of dodge.
As a noun artifice
is craftsman, artificer.As a proper noun dodge is
derived from a (etyl) diminutive of roger (typically found in the united states).artifice
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Noun
(en noun)dodge
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Verb
(dodg)- He dodged traffic crossing the street.
- The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.
citation, passage=The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.}}
- A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist! / And still it neared and neared: / As if it dodged a water-sprite, / It plunged and tacked and veered.