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Cheat vs Rogue - What's the difference?

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Cheat is a related term of rogue.


As verbs the difference between cheat and rogue

is that cheat is to violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation while rogue is .

As a noun cheat

is someone who cheats (informal: cheater).

cheat

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
  • My brother flunked biology because he cheated on his mid-term.
  • To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
  • My husband cheated on me with his secretary.
  • To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
  • He cheated death when his car collided with a moving train.
    I feel as if I've cheated fate.
  • To deceive; to fool; to trick.
  • My ex-wife cheated me out of $40,000.
    He cheated his way into office.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island.
  • To beguile.
  • (Sir Walter Scott)
  • * Washington Irving
  • to cheat winter of its dreariness

    Synonyms

    * belirt * blench * break the rules * lirt

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
  • An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
  • * Dryden
  • When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat .
  • The weed cheatgrass.
  • A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
  • A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat code.
  • Synonyms

    * (card game ) bullshit, BS, I doubt it

    Derived terms

    * cheat code * cheater * cheating * cheat on * cheat the hangman * windcheater

    See also

    *

    Anagrams

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    rogue

    English

    (wikipedia rogue)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
  • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 citation , passage=“… No rogue e’er felt the halter draw, with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it. […]”}}
  • * July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
  • As The Dark Knight Rises brings a close to Christopher Nolan’s staggeringly ambitious Batman trilogy, it’s worth remembering that director chose The Scarecrow as his first villain—not necessarily the most popular among the comic’s gallery of rogues , but the one who set the tone for entire series.
  • A mischievous scamp.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Ah, you sweet little rogue , you!
  • A vagrant.
  • Deceitful software pretending to be anti-spyware, but in fact being malicious software itself. (rfex)
  • An aggressive animal separate from the herd, especially an elephant.
  • A plant that shows some undesirable variation.
  • * 2000 Carol Deppe, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties , Totnes: Chelsea Green Pub.
  • Maintaining varieties also requires selection, however. It's usually referred to as culling'' or ''roguing . ...we examine the [plant] population and eliminate the occasional rogue .
  • (label) A conduct.
  • Synonyms

    * See

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Vicious and solitary.
  • (by extension) Large, destructive and unpredictable.
  • (by extension) Deceitful, unprincipled.
  • * 2004: , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
  • In the minds of Republican hard-liners, the "Silent Majority" of Americans who had elected the President, and even Nixon's two Democrat predecessors, China was a gigantic nuke-wielding rogue state prepared to overrun the free world at any moment.
  • Mischievous, unpredictable.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Travels and travails , passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}

    Verb

    (rogu)
  • (horticulture) To cull; to destroy plants not meeting a required standard. Especially when saving seed, rogue or unwanted plants are removed before pollination.
  • * 2000 Carol Deppe, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties , Totnes: Chelsea Green Pub.
  • Maintaining varieties also requires selection, however. It's usually referred to as culling'' or ''roguing . ...we examine the [plant] population and eliminate the occasional rogue.
  • (obsolete) To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.
  • (Cudworth)
  • (obsolete) To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.
  • (Spenser)
    (Webster 1913)

    Derived terms

    * roguish * rogues' gallery * rogue state * rogue trader * rogue wave

    See also

    * rouge the shade of red

    Anagrams

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