different between evade vs mock

English

Etymology

From Middle French évader, from Latin ?v?d? (“I pass or go over; flee”), from ? (“out of, from”) + v?d? (“I go; walk”). See also wade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ve?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Verb

evade (third-person singular simple present evades, present participle evading, simple past and past participle evaded)

1. (transitive) To get away from by cunning; to avoid using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from
   • 1847, Richard Chenevix Trench, Notes on the Miracles of Our Lord

     The heathen had a method, more truly their own, of evading the Christian miracles.

   • 2004 "Moving Through Other Characters", GURPS Basic Set: Campaigns, page 368

     “Evading” is moving through ground occupied by an opponent without trying to knock him down. You can attempt this as part of any maneuver that allows movement, provided you can move fast enough to go past your foe – not just up to him.

   • 2007 "Obstruction", GURPS Martial Arts, page 106

     If someone tries to evade you from the front (see Evading, p. B368) and you have a melee weapon that can parry, you may roll against weapon skill instead of DX in the Contest. You keep him from evading if you win or tie

2. (transitive) To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.

   • Evading from perils.
3. (intransitive) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.

   • The ministers of God are not to evade and take refuge any of these ... ways.

Synonyms

(cleverly escape from):

• equivocate
• shuffle
• dodge
• end-run
• sidestep
• give the go-by
• give someone the runaround

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• prevaricate

Anagrams

• eaved

Italian

Verb

evade

1. third-person singular present indicative of evadere

Latin

Verb

?v?de

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ?v?d?

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e?vade/

Verb

evade

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ad?i

Verb

evade

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of evadir
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of evadir

Spanish

Verb

evade

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of evadir.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of evadir.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of evadir.

English

Alternative forms

• mocque (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English mokken, from Old French mocquer, moquier (“to deride, jeer”), from Middle Dutch mocken (“to mumble”) or Middle Low German mucken (“to grumble, talk with the mouth half-opened”), both from Proto-West Germanic *mokkijan, *mukkijan (“to low, bellow; mumble”), from Proto-Germanic *mukkijan?, *m?han? (“to low, bellow, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *m?g-, *m?k- (“to low, mumble”). Cognate with Dutch mokken (“to sulk; pout; mope; grumble”), Old High German firmucken (“to be stupid”), Modern German mucksen (“to utter a word; mumble; grumble”), West Frisian mokke (“to mope; sulk; grumble”), Swedish mucka (“to murmur”), dialectal Dutch mokkel (“kiss”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /m?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

mock (plural mocks)

1. An imitation, usually of lesser quality.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Crashaw to this entry?)

2. Mockery, the act of mocking.
3. A practice exam set by an educating institution to prepare students for an important exam.

   He got a B in his History mock, but improved to an A in the exam.

4. (software engineering) A mockup or prototype.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

mock (third-person singular simple present mocks, present participle mocking, simple past and past participle mocked)

1. To mimic, to simulate.
2. (rare) To create an artistic representation of.
3. To make fun of, especially by mimicking; to taunt.
   • 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

     Let not ambition mock their useful toil.

4. To tantalise, and disappoint the hopes of.
   • 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, Scene III:

     "It is the greene-ey'd Monster, which doth mocke / The meate it feeds on."

   • 1765, Benjamin Heath, A revisal of Shakespear's text, page 563 (a commentary on the "mocke the meate" line from Othello):

     ‘Mock’ certainly never signifies to loath. Its common signification is, to disappoint.

   • 1812, The Critical Review or, Annals of Literature, page 190:

     The French revolution indeed is a prodigy which has mocked the expectations both of its friends and its foes. It has cruelly disappointed the fondest hopes of the first, nor has it observed that course which the last thought that it would have pursued.

5. (software engineering, transitive) To create a mockup or prototype of.

   What's the best way to mock a database layer?

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:mock
• See also Thesaurus:imitate

Derived terms

• mock out
• much-mocked
• mockworthy

Translations

See also

• jeer

Adjective

mock (not comparable)

1. Imitation, not genuine; fake.
   • 1776, United States Declaration of Independence

     For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

Translations

Anagrams

• KCMO

Middle English

Noun

mock

1. Alternative form of muk