Pretence vs Camouflage - What's the difference?
pretence | camouflage | Synonyms |
(label) An act of pretending or pretension; a false claim or pretext.
* 1819 , Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Coote, The History of England, from the Earliest Times to the Death of George the Second , Volume 3,
*:Great armaments were therefore put on foot in Moravia and Bohemia, while the elector of Saxony, under a pretence of military parade, drew together about sixteen thousand men, which were posted in a strong situation at Pima.
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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.
*1995 , Charlie Lewis, Peter Mitchell, Children?s Early Understanding Of Mind: Origins And Development ,
*:In pilot work we have used the method described in Experiment 2 on children?s memory for the content of their own false beliefs and pretence' and asked them to differentiate between belief and ' pretence .
*2005 , (Plato), Lesley Brown (translator), Sophist , .
*:That part of education that turned up in the latest phase of our argument, the cross-examination of the empty pretence of wisdom, is none other, we must declare, than the true-blooded kind of sophistry.
(label) Intention; design.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:A very pretence and purpose of unkindness.
A disguise or covering up.
The act of disguising.
(military) The use of natural or artificial material on personnel, objects, or tactical positions with the aim of confusing, misleading, or evading the enemy.(JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms).
(textiles) A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.
(biology) Resemblance of an organism to its surroundings for avoiding detection
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To hide or disguise something by covering it up or changing the way it looks.
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As nouns the difference between pretence and camouflage
is that pretence is an act of pretending or pretension; a false claim or pretext while camouflage is a disguise or covering up.As a verb camouflage is
to hide or disguise something by covering it up or changing the way it looks.pretence
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Alternative forms
* pretense (American spelling) * (archaic)Noun
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(en noun)William E. Conner
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