Mock vs Baffle - What's the difference?

Mock is a related term of baffle.

As nouns the difference between mock and baffle

is that mock is an imitation, usually of lesser quality while baffle is a device used to dampen the effects of such things as sound, light, or fluid specifically, a baffle is a surface which is placed inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one part to another, without preventing motion altogether.

As verbs the difference between mock and baffle

is that mock is to mimic, to simulate while baffle is (obsolete) to publicly disgrace, especially of a recreant knight.

As an adjective mock

is imitation, not genuine; fake.

mock

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Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

An imitation, usually of lesser quality.

(Crashaw)

Mockery, the act of mocking.

* Bible, Proverbs xiv. 9

Fools make a mock at sin.

A practice exam set by an educating institution to prepare students for an important exam.

He got a B in his History mock , but improved to an A in the exam.

Verb

(en verb)

To mimic, to simulate.

* Shakespeare

To see the life as lively mocked' as ever / Still sleep ' mocked death.

* Shakespeare

Mocking marriage with a dame of France.

To make fun of by mimicking, to taunt.

* Bible, 1 Kings xviii. 27

Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud.

* Gray

Let not ambition mock their useful toil.

To tantalise, and disappoint (the hopes of).

* Bible, Judges xvi. 13

Thou hast mocked me, and told me lies.

* 1597 , William Shakespeare, Henry IV , Part II, Act V, Scene III:

And with his spirit sadly I survive, / to mock the expectations of the world; / to frustrate prophecies, and to raze out / rotten opinion

* 1603 , William Shakespeare, Othello , Act III, Scene III:

"It is the greene-ey'd Monster, which doth mocke / The meate it feeds on."

* 1667 , John Milton, Paradise Lost :

Why do I overlive? / Why am I mocked with death, and lengthened out / to deathless pain?

* Milton

He will not / Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence.

* 1765 , Benjamin Heath, A revisal of Shakespear's text , page 563 (a commentary on the "mocke the meate" line from Othello):

‘Mock’ certainly never signifies to loath. Its common signification is, to disappoint.

* 1812 , The Critical Review or, Annals of Literature , page 190:

The French revolution indeed is a prodigy which has mocked the expectations both of its friends and its foes. It has cruelly disappointed the fondest hopes of the first, nor has it observed that course which the last thought that it would have pursued.

Synonyms

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Adjective

(-)

Imitation, not genuine; fake.

baffle

English

Verb

(baffl)

(obsolete) To publicly disgrace, especially of a recreant knight.

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.7:

He by the heeles him hung upon a tree, / And baffuld so, that all which passed by / The picture of his punishment might see […].

(obsolete) To hoodwink or deceive (someone).

(Barrow)

To bewilder completely; to confuse or perplex.

I am baffled by the contradictions and omissions in the instructions.

* Prescott

calculations so difficult as to have baffled , until within a recent period, the most enlightened nations

* John Locke

The mere intricacy of a question should not baffle us.

* Cowper

the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim

* South

a suitable scripture ready to repel and baffle them all

To struggle in vain.

A ship baffles with the winds.

Synonyms

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Noun

(en noun)

A device used to dampen the effects of such things as sound, light, or fluid. Specifically, a baffle is a surface which is placed inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one part to another, without preventing motion altogether.

Tanker trucks use baffles to keep the liquids inside from sloshing around.

An architectural feature designed to confuse enemies or make them vulnerable.