Trump vs Monster - What's the difference?
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(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.
(cards) A playing card of that suit.
(figuratively) Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.
* 1851 ,
* Thackeray
An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.
(in the plural) The major arcana of the tarot
A card of the major arcana
(cards) To play a trump (on a card of another suit).
(cards) To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump
To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.
* Ben Jonson
(dated) To impose unfairly; to palm off.
* C. Leslie
To supersede.
(obsolete) A trumpet.
* Bible, 1 Corinthians 15:52
To blow a trumpet.
(intransitive, slang, UK) To flatulate.
A terrifying and dangerous, wild or fictional creature.
A bizarre or whimsical creature.
An extremely cruel or antisocial person, especially a criminal.
A horribly deformed person.
* 1837 , Medico-Chirurgical Review (page 465)
(figuratively) A badly behaved child, a brat.
(informal) Something unusually large.
(informal) A prodigy; someone very talented in a specific domain.
Very large; worthy of a monster.
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To make into a monster; to categorise as a monster; to demonise.
* 1983 , Michael Slater, Dickens and Women ,
* 2005 , Diana Medlicott, The Unbearable Brutality of Being: Casual Cruelty in Prison and What This Tells Us About Who We Really Are'', Margaret Sönser Breen (editor), ''Minding Evil: Explorations of Human Iniquity ,
* 2011 , Stephen T. Asma, On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears ,
To behave as a monster to; to terrorise.
* 1968 , , Robert Lowell: A Collection of Critical Essays ,
* 2009 , Darius Rejali, Torture and Democracy ,
* 2010 , Joshua E. S. Phillips, None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture ,
(chiefly, Australia) To harass.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=January 31, author=Leo Schlink, title=Match looms as final for the ages, work=Herald Sun
, passage=Andy Roddick has been monstered by both Federer and Nadal and suffered a 6-2 7-5 7-5 semi-final loss at the hands of the Swiss champion. }}
As a proper noun trump
is a metonymic occupational name for a trumpeter.As a noun monster is
pattern; that from which a copy is made.trump
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Etymology 1
Possibly from Italian trionfi (triumph(s) ).Noun
(en noun)- Diamonds were declared trumps .
- He played an even higher trump .
- All hands voted Queequeg a noble trump ; the captain begged his pardon.
- Alfred is a trump , I think you say.
- (Decker)
Verb
(en verb)- He knew the hand was lost when his ace was trumped .
- to trick or trump mankind
- Authors have been trumped upon us.
- 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) outsmartCoordinate terms
* (To play a trump card on another suit) underruff, overruffDerived terms
* the last trump * no trump * overtrump * trump card * trump out * trump up * under trumpEtymology 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)- 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)- And without warning me, as he lay there, he suddenly trumped next to me in bed.
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Alternative forms
* monstre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The children decided Grover was a cuddly monster .
- Get away from those children, you meatheaded monster !
- Deducting then these cases, we have a large proportion of imperfect foetuses, which belonged to twin conceptions, and in which, therefore, the circulation of the monster may have essentially depended on that of the sound child.
- Sit still, you little monster !
- Have you seen those powerlifters on TV? They're monsters .
- That dude playing guitar is a monster .
Derived terms
* Cookie Monster * corporate monster * monstrosity * Frankenstein's monster * the Loch Ness monster * monster truckAdjective
(-)- He has a monster appetite.
- (Alexander Pope)
Synonyms
* (very large) gigantic, monstrousVerb
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- A Tale of Two Cities'' and ''Great Expectations feature four cases of women monstered by passion. Madame Defarge is ‘a tigress’, Mrs Joe a virago, Molly (Estella?s criminal mother) ‘a wild beast tamed’ and Miss Havisham a witch-like creature, a ghastly combination of waxwork and skeleton.
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- The community forgives: this is in deep contrast to offenders that emerge from prison and remain stigmatised and monstered , often unable to get work or housing.
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- Demonizing or monstering other groups has even become part of the cycle of American politics.
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- Animals in our world have been monstered' by human action as much as the free beasts of the pre-lapsarian state were ' monstered by the primal crime.
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- In 2002, American interrogators on the ground in Afghanistan developed a technique they called “monstering'.” The commander “instituted a new rule that a prisoner could be kept awake and in the booth for as long as an interrogator could last.” One “' monstering ” interrogator engaged in this for thirty hours.177
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- The interrogators asked members of the 377th Military Police Company to help them with monstering , and the MPs complied.
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