Trick vs Measure - What's the difference?

Trick is a related term of measure.

As nouns the difference between trick and measure

is that trick is trick while measure is the quantity, size, weight, distance or capacity of a substance compared to a designated standard.

As a verb measure is

to ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.

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

measure

English

(wikipedia measure)

Noun

(en noun)

The quantity, size, weight, distance or capacity of a substance compared to a designated standard.

An (unspecified) quantity or capacity.

* 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban'' (in ''The Guardian , 6 September 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/sep/06/england-moldova-world-cup-qualifier-matchreport]

It ended up being a bittersweet night for England, full of goals to send the crowd home happy, buoyed by the news that Montenegro and Poland had drawn elsewhere in Group H but also with a measure of regret about what happened to Danny Welbeck and what it means for Roy Hodgson's team going into a much more difficult assignment against Ukraine.

The precise designated distance between two objects or points.

The dimensions or capacity of anything, reckoned according to some standard; size or extent, determined and stated.

The tailor took my measure for a coat.

* Bible, Job xi. 9

The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

The act of measuring.

(Shakespeare)

A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition.

* '>citation

(music) The group or grouping of beats, caused by the regular recurrence of accented beats.

(dancing) A regulated movement, especially in a slow and stately dance, corresponding to the time in which the accompanying music is performed.

(poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.

a poem in iambic measure

A rule, ruler or measuring stick.

A tactic, strategy or piece of legislation.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}

(mathematics) A function that assigns a non-negative number to a given set following the mathematical nature that is common among length, volume, probability and the like.

(arithmetic, dated) A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; a divisor.

the greatest common measure of two or more numbers

(geology) A bed or stratum.

coal measures'''; lead '''measures

An indicator; something used to assess some property.

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 23, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport

, title= Man Utd 1-6 Man City , passage=City were also the victors on that occasion 56 years ago, winning 5-0, but this visit was portrayed as a measure of their progress against the 19-time champions.}}

Synonyms

* (musical designation) bar * (precise designated distance) metric

Hyponyms

* (mathematics) positive measure, signed measure, complex measure, Borel measure, , complete measure, Lebesgue measure

Verb

(measur)

To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Towards the end of poverty , passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}

To estimate the unit size of something.

To judge, value, or appraise.

* (John Milton)

Great are thy works, Jehovah, infinite / Thy power! what thought can measure thee?

To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.

(rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.

* (William Shakespeare)

A true devoted pilgrim is not weary / To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps.

To adjust by a rule or standard.

* Jeremy Taylor

To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortunes, not your fortunes by your desires.

To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out'' or ''off .

* Bible, Matthew vii. 2

With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

* Addison

That portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun.

Derived terms

* measurement * measure stick * measure theory

External links

* * * 1000 English basic words