knep — meaning in English

English meaning

• device noun A piece of equipment, especially electronic or mechanical, built to perform a specific job.
• ploy noun A cunning tactic or trick used to gain an advantage.
• ruse noun A clever trick or scheme meant to deceive someone.
• trick noun An action meant to deceive, fool, or outsmart someone.

Senses

knep is used for these senses in English:

• device A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice. 1602, Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor. "This is our device,/ That Falstaff at that oak shall meet with us."
• ploy A tactic, strategy, or scheme.
• ruse (countable, by extension) An action intended to deceive; a trick.
• sleight of hand A performance of such skill.
• trick Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.
• trick An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.

device — full definition

1. noun A piece of equipment, especially electronic or mechanical, built to perform a specific job.
2. noun A scheme or trick, often meant to deceive or gain advantage.
3. noun A technique a writer or speaker uses deliberately to create an effect, such as a rhetorical or literary device.

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