Difference between Trick and Deception

What is the difference between Trick and Deception?

Trick as a noun is something designed to fool or swindle. while Deception as a noun is an instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead and/or delude someone into errantly believing a lie or inaccuracy.

Trick

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Something that is unusually stylish or cool.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To fool; to cause to believe something untrue. to trick out; to mod or customize an object, typically for the purpose of both personalization as well as enhancing the object's performance capabilities and more particularly for the purpose of performing stunts with that object.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Something designed to fool or swindle. A single piece (or business) of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act. An effective, clever or quick way of doing something. A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined. An act of prostitution. Generally used with turn. A customer to a prostitute. An entertaining or difficult physical action. A daily period of work, especially in shift-based jobs.

Example sentence: I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.

Deception

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead and/or delude someone into errantly believing a lie or inaccuracy.

Example sentence: All warfare is based on deception.

We hope you now know whether to use Trick or Deception in your sentence.

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