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# trick

«trick» in Mova's school dictionary: **Something done to fool or cheat someone** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a trick, tricks); verb (trick, tricks, tricked, tricking); adjective (a trick question)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Something done to fool or cheat someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trick/#m1)

2) A clever or funny action that needs skill: a magic trick, a skateboard trick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trick/#m2)

3) A clever way of doing something: a trick for remembering. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trick/#m3)

4) A joke played on someone: play a trick on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trick/#m4)

5) Verb: to make someone believe something false. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trick/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In truth and safety lessons: tricky people use tricks to get children to go with them (asking for help with a lost puppy, offering sweets) — say no and tell an adult; online tricks ask for passwords. In stories tricks are played by clever characters (fox, Anansi). In maths: a trick question has a catch; tricks help mental maths (to multiply by 10 add a zero). Phrases: play a trick on, trick or treat, magic trick, do the trick, trick question, tricky.

### examples

- He did a magic trick with a coin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trick/#x1)
- The fox tricked the crow into dropping the cheese. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trick/#x2)
- It was a trick question! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trick/#x3)
- We went trick-or-treating on Halloween. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trick/#x4)
- A stranger might use a trick like «help me find my puppy» — say no and tell an adult. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trick/#x5)
- My dog can do tricks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trick/#x6)
- Here's a trick to remember the planets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trick/#x7)
- A cold flannel did the trick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trick/#x8)
- So the Farmer hit on a trick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trick/#x9)

### note

Regular verb: tricked. «Tricky» means difficult or full of tricks. «Do the trick» = solve the problem. A trick is fun only when nobody is hurt or fooled about something important.

### In the corpora

- [Parental controls are there for good reasons; talk about them rather than trying to trick them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/18/)
- [Think: could this be fake, a trick or a joke that hurts someone?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/14-stop-think-check-ask/2/)
- [A message saying your account will be deleted unless you log in through a link is phishing, a trick to steal your login.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/15-bots-are-not-doctors-helplines-are-people/15/)
- [Real games never ask for your password; "free coins for your login" is a trick to steal accounts.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/16-secrets-scams-telling/8/)
- [It looked like a photo, and that was the whole trick.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/22-news-jobs-art-safety/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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