Imposition vs Cheat - What's the difference?
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The act of imposing]], laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, [[obtrude, obtruding, and the like.
That which is imposed, levied]], or [[enjoin, enjoined.
An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put or laid on others.
(printing) Arrangement of a printed product’s pages on the printer's sheet so as to have the pages in proper order in the final product.
(religion) A practice of laying hands on a person in a religious ceremony; used e.g. in confirmation and ordination.
(UK) A task imposed on a student as punishment.
To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
To deceive; to fool; to trick.
* Shakespeare
To beguile.
* Washington Irving
Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
* Dryden
The weed cheatgrass.
A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat code.
Imposition is a related term of cheat.
As nouns the difference between imposition and cheat
is that imposition is the act of imposing]], laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, [[obtrude|obtruding, and the like while cheat is someone who cheats (informal: cheater).As a verb cheat is
to violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.imposition
English
Noun
(wikipedia imposition) (en noun)Synonyms
* (act of imposing and the like) imposure, infliction, obtrusion * burden, charge, enjoinder, injunction, tax * cheating, deception, delusion, fraud, imposture, trickReferences
* *cheat
English
Verb
(en verb)- My brother flunked biology because he cheated on his mid-term.
- My husband cheated on me with his secretary.
- He cheated death when his car collided with a moving train.
- I feel as if I've cheated fate.
- My ex-wife cheated me out of $40,000.
- He cheated his way into office.
- I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island.
- (Sir Walter Scott)
- to cheat winter of its dreariness
Synonyms
* belirt * blench * break the rules * lirtNoun
(en noun)- When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat .