Trump vs Reason - What's the difference?

As a proper noun trump

is a metonymic occupational name for a trumpeter.

As a noun reason is

a cause:.

As a verb reason is

to exercise the rational faculty; to deduce inferences from premises; to perform the process of deduction or of induction; to ratiocinate; to reach conclusions by a systematic comparison of facts.

trump

English

Etymology 1

Possibly from Italian trionfi (triumph(s) ).

Noun

(en noun)

(US, in the singular, cards) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.

(British, in the plural, cards) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.

Diamonds were declared trumps .

(cards) A playing card of that suit.

He played an even higher trump .

(figuratively) Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.

An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.

* 1851 ,

All hands voted Queequeg a noble trump ; the captain begged his pardon.

* Thackeray

Alfred is a trump , I think you say.

An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.

(Decker)

(in the plural) The major arcana of the tarot

A card of the major arcana

Verb

(en verb)

(cards) To play a trump (on a card of another suit).

He knew the hand was lost when his ace was trumped .

(cards) To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump

To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.

* Ben Jonson

to trick or trump mankind

(dated) To impose unfairly; to palm off.

* C. Leslie

Authors have been trumped upon us.

To supersede.

In this election, it would seem issues of national security trumped economic issues.

Synonyms

* (To play a trump card on another suit) ruff * (To get the better of a competitor) outsmart

Coordinate terms

* (To play a trump card on another suit) underruff, overruff

Derived terms

* the last trump * no trump * overtrump * trump card * trump out * trump up * under trump

Etymology 2

From (etyl) trompe "trumpet" from (etyl) trompe "horn, trump, trumpet", from (etyl) * "trumpet". Akin to (etyl) trumpa, trumba "horn, trumpet", (etyl) tromme "drum", (etyl) trumme "drum". More at (l), (l).

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A trumpet.

* Bible, 1 Corinthians 15:52

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible

Verb

(en verb)

To blow a trumpet.

(intransitive, slang, UK) To flatulate.

And without warning me, as he lay there, he suddenly trumped next to me in bed.

External links

reason

English

(wikipedia reason)

Noun

(en noun)

A cause:

# That which causes something: an efficient cause, a proximate cause.

#* 1996 , (w), : Evolution and the Meanings of Life , page 198:

There is a reason why so many should be symmetrical: The selective advantage in a symmetrical complex is enjoyed by all the subunits

# A motive for an action or a determination.

#* 1806 , Anonymous, Select Notes to Book XXI, in, (Alexander Pope), translator, The (Odyssey) of (Homer) , volume 6 (London, F.J. du Roveray), page 37:

This is the reason why he proposes to offer a libation, to atone for the abuse of the day by their diversions.

#* 1881 , (Henry James), (The Portrait of a Lady) , chapter 10:

Ralph Touchett, for reasons best known to himself, had seen fit to say that Gilbert Osmond was not a good fellow

# An excuse: a thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation.

#* 1966 , (Graham Greene), ((Penguin Classics) edition, ISBN 0140184945), page 14:

I have forgotten the reason' he gave for not travelling by air. I felt sure that it was not the correct ' reason , and that he suffered from a heart trouble which he kept to himself.

(label) Rational]] thinking (or the capacity for it; the cognitive [[faculty, faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition.

* 1970 , (Hannah Arendt), On Violence (ISBN 0156695006), page 62:

And the specific distinction between man and beast is now, strictly speaking, no longer reason (the lumen naturale of the human animal) but science

*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Magician’s brain , passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason . The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.}}

(label) Something reasonable, in accordance with thought; justice.

* (rfdate) (Edmund Spenser):

I was promised, on a time, To have reason for my rhyme.

Ratio; proportion.

(Barrow)

Synonyms

* (that which causes) cause * (motive for an action) rationale, motive * (thought offered in support) excuse

Derived terms

* age of reason * everything happens for a reason * for some reason * for no good reason * for XYZ reason * have reason * in reason * instrumental reason * reasonability * reasonable * reasonableness * reasonist * reasonless * rhyme or reason * stand to reason * unreason * with reason * within reason

Verb

(en verb)

To exercise the rational faculty; to deduce inferences from premises; to perform the process of deduction or of induction; to ratiocinate; to reach conclusions by a systematic comparison of facts.

Hence: To carry on a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to formulate and set forth propositions and the inferences from them; to argue.

To converse; to compare opinions.

To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss.

I reasoned the matter with my friend.

(rare) To support with reasons, as a request.

To persuade by reasoning or argument.

to reason''' one into a belief; to '''reason one out of his plan

To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.

to reason down a passion

To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.

to reason''' out the causes of the librations of the moon

Derived terms

* reasoner * reason out

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