Tricked vs Plank - What's the difference?

tricked | plank |

As verbs the difference between tricked and plank

is that tricked is (trick) while plank is to cover something with planking.

As a noun plank is

a long, broad and thick piece of timber, as opposed to a board which is less thick.

tricked

English

Verb

(head)

(trick)

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.

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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

plank

English

Noun

(en noun)

A long, broad and thick piece of timber, as opposed to a board which is less thick.

A political issue that is of concern to a faction or a party of the people and the political position that is taken on that issue.

Physical exercise in which one holds a pushup position for a measured length of time.

(British, slang) A stupid person, idiot.

That which supports or upholds.

* Southey

His charity is a better plank than the faith of an intolerant and bitter-minded bigot.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* plank spanker

Verb

(en verb)

To cover something with planking.

to plank a floor or a ship

* Dryden

Planked with pine.

To bake (fish) on a piece of cedar lumber.

* 1998 , Richard Gerstell, American Shad in the Susquehanna River Basin (page 147)

Along the lower river, planked shad dinners (baked and broiled) were highly popular during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

(colloquial) To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash.

to plank money in a wager

To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.

To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing.

To pose for a photograph while lying rigid, face down, arms at side, in an unusual place.

* 2011' May 23, '' Party finishes up in plonking after attempt at '''planking in Kingsford]'', in ''[[w:Herald Sun, Herald Sun] ,

The woman, known as Claudia, fell from a 2m wall after earlier demonstrating the wrong way to plank' on a small stool while holding a bottle of wine. A friend said some guests had not heard of ' planking and Claudia was demonstrating how ridiculous it was.

* 2011 May 24, Tourists snapped planking at iconic landmarks around the world]'', in [[w:The Australian, The Australian],

Perth man Simon Carville became an internet sensation after he was photographed planking naked in the arms of famous Perth statue the Eliza.