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Deceive vs Temp - What's the difference?

deceive | temp |

As a verb deceive

is to trick or mislead.

As a noun temp is

time.

deceive

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Verb

(deceiv)
  • To trick or mislead.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 26 , author=Tasha Robinson , title=Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits : , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=Hungry for fame and the approval of rare-animal collector Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), Darwin deceives the Captain and his crew into believing they can get enough booty to win the pirate competition by entering Polly in a science fair. So the pirates journey to London in cheerful, blinkered defiance of the Queen, a hotheaded schemer whose royal crest reads simply “I hate pirates.” }}

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * deception * deceptive * deceit

    External links

    * *

    temp

    English

    (wikipedia temp)

    Abbreviation

    (Abbreviation) (head)
  • temperature
  • temporary

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • a temporary employee, usually in an office
  • (computing, informal, mostly, attributive) a temporary storage location
  • * 2001 , John Y. Hsu, Computer Architecture: Software Aspects, Coding, and Hardware
    • Consequently, the unit executes and places the result in a temp register.
  • * 2014 , Andrew W. Appel, Program Logics for Certified Compilers (page 162)
    • That is, r -values include numeric constants, nonaddressable local variables (temps )

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To work as a temporary employee.
  • * 2007 , , 01:24:50
  • *:--I temp for money, but it's not my main thing. I write plays.