What is the difference between feint and appel?
feint | appel | Hypernyms |
To make a feint, or mock attack.
(to make a counterfeit move to confuse an opponent)
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(obsolete) Feigned; counterfeit.
* John Locke
(fencing, boxing, war) (of an attack) directed toward a different part from the intended strike
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
(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)
Feint is a hypernym of appel.
As verbs the difference between feint and appel
is that feint is to make a feint, or mock attack while appel is (appeal).As nouns the difference between feint and appel
is that feint is a movement made to confuse the opponent, a dummy while appel is (fencing) an act of striking the ground with the leading foot to frighten, distract, or mislead one's opponent.As a adjective feint
is (obsolete) feigned; counterfeit.feint
English
Verb
(en verb)Adjective
(-)- Dressed up into any feint appearance of it.
Noun
(en noun)- Courtley's letter is but a feint to get off.