trick

IPA: trˈɪk

Something designed to fool or swindle.
A single element of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act; a magic trick.
An entertaining difficult physical action.
An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.
Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank.
(dated) A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait.
A knot, braid, or plait of hair.
(card games) A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined.
(slang) A sex act, chiefly one performed for payment; an act of prostitution.
(slang) A customer or client of a prostitute.
(slang, vulgar) A term of abuse.
(Western Pennsylvania) A daily period of work, especially in shift-based jobs.
(nautical) A sailor's spell of work at the helm, usually two hours long.
(obsolete) A toy; a trifle; a plaything.
(heraldry) A representation of arms that is drawn as an outline with labels to indicate colors.

(transitive) To fool; to cause to believe something untrue; to deceive.
(heraldry) To draw (as contrasted with to blazon, which is to describe in words).
To dress; to decorate; to adorn fantastically; often followed by up, off, or out.
To engage in prostitution or casual sex.

Examples of "trick" in Sentences

I think the trick is adding an element of bad intentions or sinisterness.
This trick is a little hacky, but it gets the job done on busy Finder sidebars.
We all want the best of both worlds, but the trick is the "without alienating" part.
So the log files give you the opportunity to be more accurate – but the trick is actually getting the level of accuracy up.
The main trick is to have a currency that - unlike dollars, which are lent into existence by a bank - is instead worked into existence through an exchange.
I would point out, for example, that the term trick, is often used in science to describe a clever way to get around a difficulty that is perfectly legitimate.
It makes you write word after word of thought, as I am doing this instant, the trick is being aware that you are aware of this happening, like a witness to its madness.
The magic behind the trick is assigning a transparent icon to a shortcut and then pinning that shortcut to the taskbar as a spacer in between to sets of icons you want to keep separate.
Theists are completely anthropocentric, since their main trick is to project themselves onto the cosmos, an insistence that something like a human self is at the core of the universe, no matter that observation tells us quite a different story.