Sleight Of Hand

Definition: Sleight Of Hand

Sleight Of Hand

Noun

1. Manual dexterity in the execution of tricks.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Sleight Of Hand

Skill

Noun: skill, skillfulness, address; dexterity, dexterousness; adroitness, expertness; Adjective: proficiency, competence, technical competence, craft, callidity, facility, knack, trick, sleight; mastery, mastership, excellence, panurgy; ambidexterity, ambidextrousness; sleight of hand; (deception).

Crosswords: Sleight Of Hand

Books

• Sleight of hand : the Art Gallery, Visual Arts Center, California State University, Fullerton, November 5 through December 9, 1982 (reference)

• Now You See It, Now You Don't: Lessons in Sleight of Hand (reference)

• Sleight of Hand (reference)

• Sleight of Hand [DOWNLOAD: MICROSOFT READER] (reference)

• The Art of Magic and Sleight of Hand (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Sleight of Hand (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The little magician's sleight of hand performance. An absquabulating shew, by Von Kinder & Co. But Old Tippecanoe, will soon make it "No go". Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expression using "sleight of hand": statistical sleight of hand. Additional references.

Albanian

marifet (art, artifice, caper, dodge, fetch, gimmick, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, ploy, stunt, trick). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حيلة من حيل الشعوذة, ‏خفة شعوذة, ‏خفة (adroitness, alacrity, dexterity, flightiness, knack, levity, lightness, temerity), ‏رشاقة (agility, alacrity, deftness, fluency, fluidity, gracefulness, graciousness, lightness, liveliness, nimbleness, quickness, readiness, swiftness, thinness), ‏براعة (address, artfulness, artifice, cleverness, craft, craftiness, cunning, dexterity, facility, finesse, hand, ingeniousness, ingenuity, knack, know how, mastery, proficiency, science, skill, skillfulness, tact, trick, workmanship). (various references)

Bulgarian 

фокусничество (jugglery, legerdemain, prestidigitation), жонгльорство (hocus pocus, juggle, jugglery, legerdemain), ловкост (address, adroitness, agility, diplomacy, legerdemain, neatness, skill, sleight, subtlety), ловка измама. (various references)

Czech

kejkle (hocus pocus). (various references)

French

tour de passe-passe, habileté (slyness), dextérité. (various references)

German

taschenspielerei (legerdemain). (various references)

Greek 

ταχυδακτυλουργία (juggle, jugglery, prestidigitation). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"טוט� ות (jugglery, juggling, prestidigitation). (various references)

Hungarian

bûvészmutatvány (hocus pocus, tour de force), bûvészkedés (juggling), bűvészmutatvány (legerdemain, prestidigitation, tour de force). (various references)

Italian

trucchetto, gioco di prestigio (juggle, jugglery, legerdemain). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

手�"� (conjuring trick, juggling, magic), 手妻 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

てづま, てじな (conjuring trick, juggling, magic). (various references)

Manx

laue-chluickys (jugglery), laue-chleasaght. (various references)

Pig Latin

eightslay ofay andhay

Portuguese

truque de mãos, prestidigitação (Hanoi, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, juggle, jugoslav, legerdemain, magic, prestidigitator, trick), jogo de mãos (legerdemain). (various references)

Romanian

scamatorie (trick), prestidigitaţie (legerdemain, performance, prestidigitation). (various references)

Russian 

ловкость рук (legerdemain, palmistry, prestidigitation, sleight-of-hand). (various references)

Scottish

cleasachd (pastime). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

majstorija (contrivance, masterpiece, stunt). (various references)

Spanish

prestidigitación (conjuring, jugglery, legerdemain, prestidigitation), escamoteo. (various references)

Swedish

trolleri (cantrip, conjuring, enchantment, legerdemain, magic, sorcery, witchcraft, wizardry), fingerfärdighet (dexterity, manual skill, prestidigitation, technique). (various references)

Turkish

hile (adulteration, artifice, arts, canard, catch, cheat, cheating, chicane, cobweb, collusion, craft, cross, deceit, deception, decoy, device, do, dodge, doubling, dupery, duplicity, fake, false pretences, false pretenses, finesse, flam, flimflam, fraud, gadget, gaff, gambit, gammon, gimmick, gouge, hanky panky, have, have on, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, hoky-poky, humbug, imposture, jiggery pokery, maneuver, manipulation, manoeuvre, plant, ploy, practice, pretense, rig, rigging, rip off, ruse, sell, sham, slyness, subterfuge, tortuosity, trick, trickery, wheeling and dealing, wile), elçabukluğu, el çabukluğu (adroitness, dexterity, hat trick, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, hoky-poky, legerdemain, pass, prestidigitation, sleight, trick), aldatmaca (catch, feint, legerdemain, shiftiness, sleight, trick). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: deflations, defoliants, desolating, headlights, nightshade.

-4 letters: alongside, angelfish, athelings, deflating, deflation, defoliant, delations, desalting, eightfold, fanlights, fashioned, flagstone, gatefolds, gelations, giltheads, gladstone, hailstone, halftones, headlight, highlands, hosteling, insolated, legations, loathings, longheads, safelight, sheathing.

-5 letters: adhesion, agonised, alighted, anethols, antilogs, astonied, atheling, dealfish, dealings, deashing, delating, delation, delights, diagnose, diastole, elations, ethanols, fanlight, fatlings.

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