magic trick

collocation in English

meaningsofmagicandtrick

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magic
adjective
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/ˈmædʒ.ɪk/us
/ˈmædʒ.ɪk/
with ...
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trick
noun[C]
uk
/trɪk/us
/trɪk/
an action that is intended to deceive, either as a way of cheating someone, or as a joke or form ...
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(Definition ofmagicandtrickfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmagic trick

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It is a sort ofmagictrick—that somehow you will spend a lot more money here, but you are not going to reduce anything else there.
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He was researching amagictrickwhen the main source of his research, light disappeared.
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Nothing in the law supports such amagictrick.
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Those are currently developing amagictrickbased on teleportation.
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When you think of something like perspective in a painting, it really is amagictrick.
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At age 12 was when his theater director showed him his firstmagictrick.
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It also referred to the final portion of amagictrick, typically a showy flourish.
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Cold reading is amagictrickthat gives the appearance of a psychic experience.
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The theory effectively ignores context and makes reference into amagictrick.
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Not only did he leave after each visit with a fresh haircut, but a newmagictrickas well.
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A popularmagictrickinvolved pulling a loaded tablecloth away from a table but leaving the plates behind.
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There is a certain element we are doing in this that is making the analogy between the arts and amagictrick.
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That in order to be fully entertained by a movie or amagictrickor certain kinds of media, you need to pause your belief in it as a fiction.
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One day, he must choose between staying in an important work meeting and helping his son with amagictrickat school.
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But when she proved it to them by doing amagictrickwith a lot of bunnies they believed her.
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Quale sets them up like a cross between a joke and amagictrick, carefully establishing crucial details.
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The birds declare that they're going to do amagictrickand make the audience face the door and disappear.
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If it's a close-up of a smallmagictrick, the actors had to first learn several magics tricks.
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Diaconis has suggested that the reason so many mathematicians are magicians is that inventing amagictrickand inventing a theorem are very similar activities.
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To make thismagictrickwork properly, an active circuit must be placed between the two separate wires so as to move the signal from one to the next.
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