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# deception

«deception» in Mova's school dictionary: **not true; tricking or lying** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (deception, uncountable; a deception, deceptions)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Making someone believe something that is not true; tricking or lying. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deception/#m1)

2) A trick or lie that fools someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deception/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In safety: scams use deception, such as fake messages or fake prizes; check before you trust. In stories: villains use deception; in nature, animals use deception (camouflage, playing dead). Formal: «obtained by deception».

### examples

- The thief got in by deception, pretending to be a plumber. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deception/#x1)
- Camouflage is a kind of deception in nature. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deception/#x2)
- The magician's trick was clever deception. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deception/#x3)
- Online scams depend on deception. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deception/#x4)
- Her friendly smile was a deception. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deception/#x5)
- The fox used deception to trick the crow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deception/#x6)
- By their advice she wrapped a stone in baby-clothes, and Cronus, in eager haste, swallowed it, without noticing the deception. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deception/#x7)

### note

Verb: deceive (spelling: e before i after c). Adjective: deceptive (looks different from how it really is — «Appearances can be deceptive»). Uncountable for the act, countable for a single trick.

### In the corpora

- [Magic tricks are deception people agree to enjoy: everyone knows it's a trick, and everything is given back.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/28/)
- [Many traditions treat a lie blurted out in panic differently from a planned deception; the vicar says Scripture leaves some mystery here.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «deception» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deception/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.