Feint vs. Ruled — What's the Difference?

Feint is a French term that entered English via the discipline of swordsmanship and fencing. Feints are maneuvers designed to distract or mislead, done by giving the impression that a certain maneuver will take place, while in fact another, or even none, will.

Ruled is the fifth full-length LP by The Giraffes. Drums, bass and principal guitar tracks recorded at The Bunker in Brooklyn, NY. Vocals and additional guitars recorded at Strangeweather in Brooklyn, NY. Mixed at Studio G in Brooklyn, NY by Joel Hamilton.

A military attack or maneuver that is meant to divert attention away from a planned point of attack.

Governing power or its possession or use; authority.

A body movement that is intended to divert another's attention, often by being deliberately left uncompleted

The duration of such power.

A deceptive action calculated to divert attention from one's real purpose.

An authoritative, prescribed direction for conduct, especially one of the regulations governing procedure in a legislative body or a regulation observed by the players in a game, sport, or contest.

To make a feint

The body of regulations prescribed by the founder of a religious order for governing the conduct of its members.

To deceive with a feint

A usual, customary, or generalized course of action or behavior

To do or perform as a feint

A generalized statement that describes what is true in most or all cases

A movement made to confuse an opponent; a dummy.

(Mathematics) A standard method or procedure for solving a class of problems.

A blow, thrust, or other offensive movement resembling an attack on some part of the body, intended to distract from a real attack on another part.

A court decision serving as a precedent for subsequent cases

(figuratively) Something feigned; a false or pretend appearance; a pretence or stratagem.

A legal doctrine or principle.

To direct (a blow, thrust, or other offensive movement resembling an attack) on some part of the body, intended to distract from a real attack on another part.

A court order.

(rare) To direct a feint or mock attack against (someone).

A minor regulation or law.

To make a feint or mock attack.

A statute or regulation governing the court process

Of an attack or offensive movement: directed toward a different part from the intended strike.

See ruler.

(obsolete) Feigned, counterfeit, fake.

(Printing) A thin metal strip of various widths and designs, used to print borders or lines, as between columns.

Of lines printed on paper as a handwriting guide: not bold; faint, light; also, of such paper: ruled with faint lines of this sort.

To exercise control, dominion, or direction over; govern

Feigned; counterfeit.

To have a powerful influence over; dominate

That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch.

To be a preeminent or dominant factor in

A mock blow or attack on one part when another part is intended to be struck; - said of certain movements in fencing, boxing, war, etc.

To decide or declare authoritatively or judicially; decree

To make a feint, or mock attack.

To mark with straight parallel lines.

Any distracting or deceptive maneuver (as a mock attack)

To mark (a straight line), as with a ruler.

Deceive by a mock action;

To be in total control or command; exercise supreme authority.

To formulate and issue a decree or decision.

To prevail at a particular level or rate

(Slang) To be excellent or superior

Having printed lines.

Being a scroll; being such that through every point of S there is a straight line that lies on S.

Simple past tense and past participle of rule

Subject to a ruling authority;