Ploy vs Dodge - What's the difference?
ploy | dodge | Related terms |
A tactic, strategy, or gimmick.
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(military) To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision.
To avoid by moving suddenly out of the way.
(figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
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, chapter=2 (archaic) To go hither and thither.
(photography) To decrease the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them darker (compare burn).
To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
* Coleridge
Ploy is a related term of dodge.
As a noun ploy
is a tactic, strategy, or gimmick.As a verb ploy
is (military) to form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision.As a proper noun dodge is
derived from a (etyl) diminutive of roger (typically found in the united states).ploy
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
Etymology 2
Probably abbreviated from deploy.Verb
(en verb)- (Wilhelm)
Antonyms
* deploy (Webster 1913)Anagrams
* ----dodge
English
Verb
(dodg)- He dodged traffic crossing the street.
- The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.
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- A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist! / And still it neared and neared: / As if it dodged a water-sprite, / It plunged and tacked and veered.