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Dodge vs Feint - What's the difference?

dodge | feint |

As verbs the difference between dodge and feint

is that dodge is to avoid by moving suddenly out of the way while feint is to make a feint, or mock attack.

As nouns the difference between dodge and feint

is that dodge is an act of dodging while feint is a movement made to confuse the opponent, a dummy.

As a proper noun Dodge

is {{surname|from=given names}} derived from a Middle English diminutive of Roger. (Typically found in the United States..

As an adjective feint is

feigned; counterfeit.

dodge

English

Verb

(dodg)
  • To avoid by moving suddenly out of the way.
  • He dodged traffic crossing the street.
  • (figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
  • The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
  • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 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.}}
  • (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
  • 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.

    Synonyms

    * (to avoid) duck, evade, fudge, skirt

    Derived terms

    * dodge a bullet * dodger * dodgy

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of dodging
  • A trick, evasion or wile
  • feint

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a feint, or mock attack.
  • (to make a counterfeit move to confuse an opponent) * Chinese: *: Mandarin: * Finnish: (t) (trans-mid) * Maori: (t), (t), (t), * Russian: * Swedish: (trans-bottom)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Feigned; counterfeit.
  • * John Locke
  • Dressed up into any feint appearance of it.
  • (fencing, boxing, war) (of an attack) directed toward a different part from the intended strike
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A movement made to confuse the opponent, a dummy
  • That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch.
  • * Spectator
  • Courtley's letter is but a feint to get off.
  • (fencing, boxing, war) An offensive movement resembling an attack in all but its continuance
  • The narrowest rule used in the production of lined writing paper (C19: Variant of FAINT)