Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of trick.
Examples
“He practiced coin tricks from a book he found in the wasteland of the prison library; and he worked out; and he made lists in his head of what he'd do when he got out of prison.”
“That’s not only because people aren’t good at estimating serving sizes of low-fat foods, so they eat up to 50 percent more calories than they would of the “full-fat” version, it’s also because the lingo tricks you into thinking those products are good for you.”
“One of his favorite tricks is to find a tasty bit and play with it until my wife cannot stand it anymore!”
“The bag of tricks is filling, but to pull out objects in the right order we need to go back to basics and ask whom the characters are.”
“I did that for two solid years, preceded by two solid years of supervisor work, and there are certain tricks I learned to keeping your poise.”
“Although Ren professes affection for the United States, he has also called for the dissolution of NATO and says he thinks the United States is engaged in "tricks aimed at undermining China's international environment in order to contain it.”
“My bag of tricks is considerably larger now than it was 22 years ago, and I learn new things every day.”
“Why, sir, cuttin 'out all sentiment, his tricks is worth more' n that.”
“Those ain't boxin 'tricks, but they're all in the game of a roughhouse.”
“The best thing about these tricks is that anybody can do them, you don't have to be a card shark.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tricks’.
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• Wordie for dummies!
Our collection of FAQs, help and tips.
I can helping!!!faq, features, bugs, word, diacritics, some html, tags, images, video, promotion, tricks, comments for spec... and 11 more...
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Meta
Because in this crazy place, technical feedback on site bugs goes on the page for the word 'bugs'. See also Meta Squared, plethora's list of meta lists.
bugs, features, mobile, wordie, wordnet, madeupical, tagging, merch, weirdnet, tag, meta, search and 83 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for tricks.
GHibbs Also 3rd person singular of the verb 'to trick'. Nov 21, 2011
bilby • Wordie for dummies! Jan 27, 2010
Prolagus Here's a faster way to link to users and lists that are listed in the right column of a page that is already open:
select the text (e.g. "Wordie for dummies!" on this page) and right-click it. Then click "View selection source" (in Firefox), and the HTML tag will show up in a new window, ready to use. Jan 27, 2010
chained_bear Oh, the tab feature and I are very close friends. Very close.
All right, I'll admit it, we live together. Dec 31, 2008
whichbe I've found Wordie works particular well (read: faster) when utilizing the TABS feature, now found on most browsers. Rather than a ton of open windows, you can have many tabs within the same window. In Windows, this is often done with a mouse-rightclick and then Open New Tab. On OS-X (Mac), it is often Apple-click.
(Apologies to those for whom this is obvious; I have recently discovered there's a great number of people who do not know about this feature.) Dec 31, 2008
vanishedone Alternatively, go to the list page and look through the page source for links to URLs like /lists/edit/10258 or /lists/10258?s=a&d=d. Dec 2, 2008
Prolagus If you want to know which number your list is...
Comment on it, then go to http://wordie.org/comments . On that page, links to lists look like this: http://wordie.org/people/user?wl=number Dec 2, 2008
reesetee Thanks, whichbe--although it was a rhetorical question in that particular instance. :-) Nov 9, 2008
whichbe This can be a meta page for them tricky Wordie tricks.
Today's lesson is how to find out who added a particular tag. This is all thanks to the fact that Google loves Wordie. When reesetee asked on the word different, "who's the wag who tagged this page 'Monty Python'?"--here's how to answer that.
1. You'll need to grab the exact text from a tags-page listing as to the exact phrase, so we can put this in QUOTES into Google. In this case, it's "monty python has been used" -- stick that into Google with one more important part-- site:wordie.org
So in this example, here's what you'd type into google:
"monty python has been used" site:wordie.org
Sometimes, You'll get the exact culprit right here, ta-da!
BUT, if it's a popular/shared tag, you'll get a few culprits. This is where you'd grab the URL that lists people's unique tags:
http://wordie.org/tags/monty%20python?u=USERNAME
You'll just keep replacing the USERNAME with whoever appears on that Google results list, and it should take less than a minute to discover the tagger. In the case of different/monty python, it's SonofGroucho.
The downside to this technique is that Google's search-data may not be up-to-date (sometimes this takes days) and is certainly not instantaneous. Nov 7, 2008