cheating

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃiːtɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːtɪŋ

Verb

cheating

1. present participle and gerund of cheat

Noun

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cheating

Wikipedia

cheating (countable and uncountable, plural cheatings)

1. An act of deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, imposition or infidelity.
   • 1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Disowned:

     the cheatings and impositions of your pitiful trade

2. (cinematography) The arrangement of people or items in a film so as to give the (false) impression that shots are taken from different angles in the same location.
   • 1965, Joseph V. Mascelli, The Five C’s of Cinematography:

     Cheating is the sixth C of Cinematography ... it is the art of arranging people, objects or actions, during filming or editing

Derived terms

• anticheating
• contract cheating
• cybercheating

Translations

act of deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, or imposition

Dutch: valsspelen (nl) n German: Falschspiel n, Betrügerei (de) f, Schiebung (de) f, Schwindel (de) m, Mogelei (de) f, Schummelei f Hindi: धोखा (hi) m (dhokhā), छल (hi) m (chal) Irish: cúigleáil f (at cards) Italian: imbroglio (it) m, truffa (it) f Japanese: チート (ja) (chīto), カンニング (ja) (kanningu) (examinations) Polish: oszustwo (pl) m, oszukiwanie (pl) n, (computer games) cheatowanie n, (computer games) czitowanie n Sanskrit: कपट (sa) m or n (kapaṭa) Serbo-Croatian: podvala (sh) f, prevara (sh) f, prijevara (sh) f Spanish: trampa (es) f, fullería f, albardilla (es) f (uncommon) Swedish: fusk (sv) n Ukrainian: ошука́нство n (ošukánstvo), круті́йство n (krutíjstvo)

Adjective

cheating (comparative more cheating, superlative most cheating)

1. Unsporting or underhand.
2. Unfaithful or adulterous.

Derived terms

• cheatingly
• noncheating
• uncheating

Translations

unsporting & underhand

German: unsportlich (de), unehrlich (de), betrügerisch (de) Ukrainian: нечесний m (nečesnyj)

adulterous

German: betrügerisch (de), ehebrecherisch (de), untreu (de) Portuguese: traidor (pt), infiel (pt)

See also

• Cheating in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

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