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s | feint |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a verb feint is

to make a feint, or mock attack.

As an adjective feint is

(obsolete) feigned; counterfeit.

As a noun feint is

a movement made to confuse the opponent, a dummy.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    feint

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a feint, or mock attack.
    • (to make a counterfeit move to confuse an opponent) * Chinese: *: Mandarin: * Finnish: (t) (trans-mid) * Maori: (t), (t), (t), * Russian: * Swedish: (trans-bottom)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Feigned; counterfeit.
  • * John Locke
    • Dressed up into any feint appearance of it.
  • (fencing, boxing, war) (of an attack) directed toward a different part from the intended strike

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A movement made to confuse the opponent, a dummy
  • That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch.
  • * Spectator
    • Courtley's letter is but a feint to get off.
  • (fencing, boxing, war) An offensive movement resembling an attack in all but its continuance
  • The narrowest rule used in the production of lined writing paper (C19: Variant of FAINT)