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What is the difference between feint and appel?

feint | appel | Hypernyms |

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)
  • 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)
  • appel

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (fencing) An act of striking the ground with the leading foot to frighten, distract, or mislead one's opponent.
  • Hypernyms

    * (fencing) feint

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • Anagrams

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