artimaña

f.

1 trick, rascally trick, scheme, stratagem.

2 trick, trap, cod.

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artimaña

► nombre femenino

1 artifice, trick, ruse

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SF

1) (Caza) trap, snare

2) (=ingenio) cunning

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femenino trick

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= ruse, stalking horse, trick, gaff, wheeze.

Ex. The library did not burn and the purchase of Thomas Jefferson's library as a replacement was a ruse to help pay the former President's debts.

Ex. Legalism and pragmatism were the intellectual stalking horses that contributed most to the victory of economic interest over human concerns in this case.

Ex. But if variable-length keys are not supported by a data base, various tricks are often necessary to provide access to the library data which has inherently variable-length keys.

Ex. There are magicians that choose not to work with gaffs of any type because they want to take magic in new directions.

Ex. Last year's profits were more than halved, so the company has come up with a clever wheeze.

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* artimañas = crafty ways, trickery, bag of tricks.

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femenino trick

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= ruse, stalking horse, trick, gaff, wheeze.

Ex: The library did not burn and the purchase of Thomas Jefferson's library as a replacement was a ruse to help pay the former President's debts.

Ex: Legalism and pragmatism were the intellectual stalking horses that contributed most to the victory of economic interest over human concerns in this case.

Ex: But if variable-length keys are not supported by a data base, various tricks are often necessary to provide access to the library data which has inherently variable-length keys.

Ex: There are magicians that choose not to work with gaffs of any type because they want to take magic in new directions.

Ex: Last year's profits were more than halved, so the company has come up with a clever wheeze.

* artimañas = crafty ways, trickery, bag of tricks.

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artimaña

feminine

trick

se valió de todo tipo de artimañas para conseguirlo he used every trick o (colloq) every dodge he could think of to get it, he used every trick in the book to get it (colloq)

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artimaña sustantivo femenino
trick
artimaña sustantivo femenino trick, ruse
'artimaña' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
artificio
English:
device
- ruse

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artimaña nf

trick, ruse;

se sirvió de todo tipo de artimañas para conseguir su objetivo she used all kinds of trickery to get what she wanted

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artimaña

f trick

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artimaña nf

: ruse, trick