Hack vs Trick - What's the difference?
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To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
To cough noisily.
To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
(transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code; to crack.
(transitive, slang, computing) By extension, to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
(computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
(computing) To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
(transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
To work with on an intimately technical level.
(ice hockey) To strike an opponent's leg with one's hockey stick.
(ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
(baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
To strike in a frantic movement.
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A tool for chopping.
A hacking blow.
A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
A dry cough.
A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
(figuratively) A try, an attempt.
(curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
(obsolete) A mattock or a miner's pick.
(computing, slang) An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.
(computing) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
(computing) A small code change meant to patch a problem as quickly as possible.
(computing) An expedient, temporary solution, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date.
(colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
(slang, military) Time check.
(baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter.
A kick on the shins in football.
(falconry) A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
A food-rack for cattle.
A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
A grating in a mill race.
To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
(falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
(obsolete) An ordinary saddle horse, especially one which has been let out for hire and is old and tired.
A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work. (newspaper hack)
* I got by on hack work for years before I finally published my novel.
(pejorative) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
(slang) A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.
A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach.
* Alexander Pope
(pejorative) An untalented writer.
* Dason is nothing but a two-bit hack .
* He's nothing but the typical hack writer.
(pejorative) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
(pejorative) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
(politics) A political agitator. (slightly derogatory)
(obsolete) A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
* Goldsmith
(obsolete) A procuress.
(dated) To make common or cliched; to vulgarise.
To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
(obsolete) To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
(obsolete) To live the life of a drudge or hack.
To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
* J. H. Newman
A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
(slang) Stylish or cool.
Something designed to fool or swindle.
A single piece (or business) of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act.
An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.
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, title= Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank.
(dated) A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait.
* William Shakespeare, King Lear act IV, scene VI:
* William Shakespeare,King John Act I, scene I
A knot, braid, or plait of hair.
(card games) A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined.
* Alexander Pope
(slang) An act of prostitution. Generally used with turn .
(slang) A customer to a prostitute.
An entertaining difficult physical action.
A daily period of work, especially in shift-based jobs.
* 1885 , Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen, The Conductor and Brakeman , page 496:
* 1899 , New York (State), Bureau of Statistics, Deptartment of Labor, Annual Report :
* 1949 , Labor arbitration reports , page 738:
(nautical) A sailor's spell of work at the helm, usually two hours long.
A toy; a trifle; a plaything.
To fool; to cause to believe something untrue; to deceive.
(heraldry) To draw (as opposed to blazon - to describe in words).
* 1600 , Hamlet , , by Shakespeare
* Ben Jonson
To dress; to decorate; to adorn fantastically; often followed by up'', ''off'', or ''out .
* Alexander Pope
* John Locke
* Macaulay
In transitive terms the difference between hack and trick
is that hack is to chop or cut down in a rough manner while trick is to fool; to cause to believe something untrue; to deceive.In lang=en terms the difference between hack and trick
is that hack is to make common or cliched; to vulgarise while trick is a customer to a prostitute.As an adjective trick is
stylish or cool.hack
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- They hacked the brush down and made their way through the jungle.
- Among other things he found a sharp hunting knife, on the keen blade of which he immediately proceeded to cut his finger. Undaunted he continued his experiments, finding that he could hack and hew splinters of wood from the table and chairs with this new toy.
- This cold is awful. I can't stop hacking .
- Can you hack it out here with no electricity or running water?
- When I logged into the social network, I discovered I'd been hacked .
- He can hack like no one else and make the program work as expected.
- I hacked in a fix for this bug, but we'll still have to do a real fix later.
- I read up on dating tips so I can hack my sex life.
- I'm currently hacking distributed garbage collection.
- He's going to the penalty box after hacking the defender in front of the goal.
- There's a scramble in front of the net as the forwards are hacking at the bouncing puck.
- He went to the batter's box hacking .
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Derived terms
(terms derived from hack) * hack down * hack in * , hackingly, hacky * hack into * hack up * hackability * hackerSynonyms
* (gain unauthorized access) crack * frob * tweakNoun
(en noun)- (Shakespeare)
- Putting your phone in a sandwich bag when you go to the beach is such a great hack .
- He took a few hacks , but the pitcher finally struck him out.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "hack")Synonyms
* (access attempt) crack * band-aid, contrivance, improvision, improvisation, kludge, makeshift, quick fix, patchEtymology 2
Variations of (hatch), (heck).Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)Etymology 3
Abbreviation of , probably from place name HackneyNoun
(en noun)- On horse, on foot, in hacks and gilded chariots.
- Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, / Who long was a bookseller's hack .
Synonyms
*(A saddle horse which is old and tired) nagCoordinate terms
*(worthless horse) bumVerb
(en verb)- (Hanmer)
- (Goldsmith)
- The word "remarkable" has been so hacked of late.
Etymology 4
FromNoun
(en noun)trick
English
Adjective
(er)- Wow, your new sportscar is so trick .
Noun
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- the tricks of boys
- (Prior)
- a trick''' of drumming with the fingers; a '''trick of frowning
- The trick of that voice I do well remember.
- He hath a trick of Cœur de Lion's face.
- (Ben Jonson)
- On one nice trick depends the general fate.
- On third trick from 12 m. to 8 am, we have W. A. White, formerly operator at Wallula, who thus far has given general satisfaction.
- Woodside Junction—On 8 hour basis, first trick' $60, second '''trick''' $60, third ' trick $50.
- The Union contends that Fifer was entitled to promotion to the position of Group Leader on the third trick in the Core Room Department.
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (something designed to trick) artifice, con, gambit, ploy, rip-off, See also * (magic trick) illusion, magic trick, sleight of hand * (customer to a prostitute) john, see also * (entertaining difficult physical action) * (daily period of work) shiftVerb
(en verb)- You tried to trick me when you said that house was underpriced.
- The rugged Pyrrhus, he whose sable arms, / Black as his purpose, did the night resemble / When he lay couched in the ominous horse, / Hath now this dread and black complexion smear'd / With heraldry more dismal; head to foot / Now is he total gules; horridly trick'd / With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons
- They forget that they are in the statutes: there they are tricked , they and their pedigrees.
- Trick her off in air.
- Tricking up their children in fine clothes.
- They are simple, but majestic, records of the feelings of the poet; as little tricked out for the public eye as his diary would have been.