Canard vs Charade - What's the difference?
canard | charade |
A false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so.
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(aeronautics) A type of aircraft in which the primary horizontal control and stabilization surfaces are in front of the main wing.
(transport, engineering) Any small winglike structure on a vehicle, usually used for stabilization.
A specific kind of riddle in which a word or phrase to find is split in several parts that can each be guessed from a verbal clue.
(in plural) A party game in which players mime a word, phrase, or name that the other players must try to guess.
Something apparently real but based on pretence/pretense.
As nouns the difference between canard and charade
is that canard is a false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so while charade is a specific kind of riddle in which a word or phrase to find is split in several parts that can each be guessed from a verbal clue.canard
English
Noun
(en noun)- It’s a cinch, now that Spurling has cleared away a century’s worth of misapprehensions and canards .
Synonyms
* (false or misleading report or story) hoaxcharade
English
Noun
(en noun)- She said she loved me but it was only a charade .
