Bluff

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An act of bluffing; a false expression of the strength of one’s position in order to intimidate or deceive; braggadocio.

   “That is only bluff, or That is only a bluff.”

2. isim An attempt to represent oneself as holding a stronger hand than one actually does.

   “John’s bet was a bluff: he bet without even so much as a pair.”

3. isim The card game poker.

   “BLUFF OR POKER [title of a chapter]”

4. isim One who bluffs; a bluffer.
5. isim Pretense, excuse.
6. fiil To make a bluff; to give the impression that one’s hand is stronger than it is.

   “John bluffed by betting without even a pair.”

7. fiil To frighten, deter, or deceive with a false show of strength or confidence; to give a false impression of strength or temerity in order to intimidate or gain some advantage.

   “The government claims it will call an election if this bill does not pass. Is it truly ready to do so, or is it bluffing?”

8. fiil To perform or achieve by bluffing.

   “We bluffed our way past the guards.”

9. fiil To give false information intentionally, to lie (to someone), to deceive; to put on an act.

   “Vinod, you want to bluff the doctor, your mother, father, uncle, auntie, CMPB all that I don't care. But you cannot bluff me.”

10. isim A high, steep bank, for example by a river or the sea, or beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad face.

    “In the sketch (which is taken about 75 Jovian days after that of the 2nd July) there is shown a dark copper-coloured streak along the southern margin of the south brown belt, butting on to a bluff-headed streak of cumulus cloud which may be the same remarkable bluff head noticed on July 2.”

11. isim A small wood or stand of trees, typically poplar or willow.
12. sıfat Having a broad, flattened front.

    “the bluff bows of a ship”

13. sıfat Rising steeply with a flat or rounded front.

    “a bluff or bold shore”

14. sıfat Surly; churlish; gruff; rough.

    “[…] he had a bluff, rough-and-ready face, all roughened and reddened and lined in his long travels.”

15. sıfat Roughly frank and hearty in one's manners.

    “a bluff answer”

16. fiil To fluff, puff or swell up.

    “Not a sparrow on the cottage thatch, where the chimney's warmth had thawed the snow, that did not seem to have his great coat on, so bluffed out were the feathers, and not a frozen-out duck who did not glance up at the icicles hanging to the roof, and quack a prayer for rain.”

17. özel isim An unincorporated community in Fayette County, Alabama.
18. özel isim A ghost town in Nome Census Area, Alaska.
19. özel isim Synonym of Uptown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
20. özel isim An unincorporated community in Fayette County, Texas.
21. özel isim A town in San Juan County, Utah.
22. özel isim A group of suburbs in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
23. özel isim A rural town in the Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia.
24. özel isim A town in Southland, New Zealand, the southernmost in the South Island, and seaport for the Southland region.

    “Former name: Campbelltown”

25. özel isim A surname.