a risky move, or gambit, made in the assumption that the opponent's response to it will be a blunder (chiefly in the game of Go) · an exploit · a petty and deceptive ploy
köken: The first element may be connected to 꾀 (kkoe, “cunning wit”). The second element is from 수 (手, su, “move in a board game”). The word was originally jargon used by players of the board game of Go.
a trick (non-obvious, often clever way to accomplish something) · a ploy, (in the plural) trickery
çekim: çoğul kneps · tamlayan kneps
köken: From Middle Low German knep. Cognate of Danish kneb. Compare also recent German Kniff. Related to the verb knipa (“squeeze”). Doublet of knip, knippe, and knippa.
ett knep för att öppna en flaska utan kapsylöppnare
grip (manner of holding things with the hands) · trick, gimmick (effective, clever or quick way of doing something) · trick, gimmick, ploy (something designed to fool or swindle)
çekim: çoğul chwyty · tamlayan chwytu
eş: ujmowanie, łapanie
köken: Blend of Proto-Slavic *xvatъ + Proto-Slavic *xytъ. By surface analysis, deverbal from chwytać.
köken: From Proto-Finnic *ansa (compare Estonian aas), borrowed from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ansā (compare Old Prussian ansis (“hook, latch”), Latvian osa), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂emseh₂ (compare Latin ānsa (“handle”)).
A cunning device, trickery, artifice, sophistry, chicanery. · A pretence, evasion, subterfuge. · A misrepresentation, false statement, fallacy, cavil.
çekim: çoğul calumniae · tamlayan calumniae
köken: From Proto-Italic *kalwomnjā, from unattested *kalwomnos (“deceiving, accusing”), which is equal to a (hypothetical) mediopassive participle of calvor.
plan, scheme · in terms of, with regard to, on a scale of · plan (a set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal)
çekim: çoğul пла́нове
köken: Likely borrowed from Russian план (plan), possibly via Polish plan or German Plan, in turn from French plan, from Latin plānus.
aile: пла́нов, пла́новост, планови́к
Тогава вече се беше развила фирмата в световен план.
köken: From Old Irish meng (“wile, ruse; guile, craft”), from Proto-Celtic *mengâ, of uncertain ultimate origin, but possibly related to Ancient Greek μάγγανον (mánganon, “charm”), borrowed into Latin mango (“dealer”).