Trick vs Design - What's the difference?

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Trick is a related term of design.

As nouns the difference between trick and design

is that trick is trick while design is design (creative profession or art).

trick

English

Adjective

(er)

(slang) Stylish or cool.

Wow, your new sportscar is so trick .

Noun

(en noun)

Something designed to fool or swindle.

A single piece (or business) of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act.

An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}

Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank.

the tricks of boys

(Prior)

(dated) A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait.

a trick''' of drumming with the fingers; a '''trick of frowning

* William Shakespeare, King Lear act IV, scene VI:

The trick of that voice I do well remember.

* William Shakespeare,King John Act I, scene I

He hath a trick of Cœur de Lion's face.

A knot, braid, or plait of hair.

(Ben Jonson)

(card games) A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined.

* Alexander Pope

On one nice trick depends the general fate.

(slang) An act of prostitution. Generally used with turn .

(slang) A customer to a prostitute.

An entertaining difficult physical action.

A daily period of work, especially in shift-based jobs.

* 1885 , Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen, The Conductor and Brakeman , page 496:

On third trick from 12 m. to 8 am, we have W. A. White, formerly operator at Wallula, who thus far has given general satisfaction.

* 1899 , New York (State), Bureau of Statistics, Deptartment of Labor, Annual Report :

Woodside Junction—On 8 hour basis, first trick' $60, second '''trick''' $60, third ' trick $50.

* 1949 , Labor arbitration reports , page 738:

The Union contends that Fifer was entitled to promotion to the position of Group Leader on the third trick in the Core Room Department.

(nautical) A sailor's spell of work at the helm, usually two hours long.

A toy; a trifle; a plaything.

(Shakespeare)

Synonyms

* (something designed to trick) artifice, con, gambit, ploy, rip-off, See also * (magic trick) illusion, magic trick, sleight of hand * (customer to a prostitute) john, see also * (entertaining difficult physical action) * (daily period of work) shift

Verb

(en verb)

To fool; to cause to believe something untrue; to deceive.

You tried to trick me when you said that house was underpriced.

(heraldry) To draw (as opposed to blazon - to describe in words).

* 1600 , Hamlet , , by Shakespeare

The rugged Pyrrhus, he whose sable arms, / Black as his purpose, did the night resemble / When he lay couched in the ominous horse, / Hath now this dread and black complexion smear'd / With heraldry more dismal; head to foot / Now is he total gules; horridly trick'd / With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons

* Ben Jonson

They forget that they are in the statutes: there they are tricked , they and their pedigrees.

To dress; to decorate; to adorn fantastically; often followed by up'', ''off'', or ''out .

* Alexander Pope

Trick her off in air.

* John Locke

Tricking up their children in fine clothes.

* Macaulay

They are simple, but majestic, records of the feelings of the poet; as little tricked out for the public eye as his diary would have been.

Synonyms

* (to fool) con, dupe, fool, gull, have, hoodwink, pull the wool over someone's eyes, rip off * (to trick out) mod * See also

Derived terms

* bag of tricks * cheap trick * dirty trick * do the trick * hat trick * how's tricks? * Jedi mind trick * magic trick * politricks * tricker * trickery * trickiness * tricknology * trick out * trick or treat * trick point * trick shot * trickster * tricky * turn a trick, turn tricks

design

English

(wikipedia design)

Noun

(en noun)

A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.

A pattern, as an element of a work of art or architecture.

The composition of a work of art.

Intention or plot.

* M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisisana (PG), p. 40:

I give it you without any other design than to shew you that I reckon nothing dear to me, when I want to do you a pleasure.

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The shape or appearance given to an object, especially one that is intended to make it more attractive.

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The art of designing

Danish furniture design is world-famous.

Derived terms

* architectural design * design by contract * design pattern * hardware design * software design

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To assign, appoint (something to someone); to designate.

* 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.10:

he looks not below the Moon, but hath designed the regiment of sublunary affairs unto inferiour deputations.

* Dryden

He was designed to the study of the law.

To plan and carry out (a picture, work of art, construction etc.).

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.}}

Primitive people believe that gods designed the Earth and humans.

(obsolete) To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.

* Shakespeare

We shall see / Justice design the victor's chivalry.

* Beaumont and Fletcher

Meet me to-morrow where the master / And this fraternity shall design .

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