Feint

ahd-5
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A military attack or maneuver that is meant to divert attention away from a planned point of attack.
  • noun. A body movement that is intended to divert another's attention, often by being deliberately left uncompleted.
  • noun. A deceptive action calculated to divert attention from one's real purpose. synonym: wile.
  • intransitive verb. To make a feint.
  • intransitive verb. To deceive with a feint.
  • intransitive verb. To do or perform as a feint.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make a feint; make a pretended blow, thrust, or attack at one point when another is intended to be struck, in order to throw an antagonist off his guard.
  • Counterfeit; seeming; feigned: same as faint, 1.
  • Same as faint, 2.
  • noun. plural See faint, n., 2.
  • noun. An assumed or false appearance, or simulation; a pretense of doing something not really done.
  • noun. A movement made with the object of deceiving an adversary or throwing him off his guard; an appearance of aiming at one part or point when another is the real object of attack, as in boxing, fencing, battle, or a contest of any kind; a mock attack.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To make a feint, or mock attack.
  • adjective. Feigned; counterfeit.
  • noun. That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch.
  • noun. A mock blow or attack on one part when another part is intended to be struck; -- said of certain movements in fencing, boxing, war, etc.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To make a feint, or mock attack.
  • adjective. Feigned; counterfeit.
  • adjective. (of an attack) directed toward a different part from the intended strike
  • noun. A movement made to confuse the opponent, a dummy
  • noun. That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch.
  • noun. An offensive movement resembling an attack in all but its continuance
  • noun. The narrowest rule used in the production of lined writing paper (C19: Variant of FAINT)
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. any distracting or deceptive maneuver (as a mock attack)
  • verb. deceive by a mock action
  • Word Usage
    "Anyway, this is probably the closest to "classical" rag style that I've ever gotten, the D strain feint towards the Neapolitan notwithstanding."