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How to use delusion and elusion? What is the meaning of them?



 
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How to use delusion and elusion? What is the meaning of them? #1 (permalink) Fri Aug 22, 2008 8:52 am   How to use delusion and elusion? What is the meaning of them?
 

I would like to thank you all the forum members. "I" just want someone to assist me with these two words. delusion and elusion how to use them in sentence and what is it mean? I checked them in my dictionary but they are still not clear to me. I need someone who has seen them before.
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How to use delusion and elusion? What is the meaning of them? #2 (permalink) Fri Aug 22, 2008 12:45 pm   How to use delusion and elusion? What is the meaning of them?
 

Hi chol,

1. Delusion - lies, hallucination, error, illusion, fake understanding of something, e.g. I was under delusion that I would play a show with this band.

2. Elusion - trick, ruse, monkey business, e.g. All his elusions on getting more money by fake documents came to grief.
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How to use delusion and elusion? What is the meaning of them? #3 (permalink) Fri Aug 22, 2008 13:25 pm   How to use delusion and elusion? What is the meaning of them?
 

Hi Bonnie

I'm curious where you got that definition for the word 'elusion' from. It doesn't sound correct to me.

The word 'elusion' is the noun form of the verb 'elude'.
Quote:
Elusion:
n. The act or an instance of eluding or escaping; evasion.

http://www.bartleby.com/61/73/E0097350.html

The word 'elusion' also appears to be used in the field of psychology:
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O87-elusion.html

'Elusion' is not a very commonly used word in everyday English. I'd say both the verb (elude) and the adjective (elusive) are far more commonly used.
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How to use delusion and elusion? What is the meaning of them? #4 (permalink) Fri Aug 22, 2008 13:37 pm   How to use delusion and elusion? What is the meaning of them?
 

thanks Amy,

I took it from ABBYY Lingvo Voc., perhaps there is a mistake there, native english speakers know better of course than all these dictionaries.
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How to use delusion and elusion? What is the meaning of them? #5 (permalink) Fri Aug 22, 2008 14:26 pm   How to use delusion and elusion? What is the meaning of them?
 

Hi Bonnie

That explains it then. That dictionary sometimes seems to have simply invented definitions and expressions in English.

This is what lost_soul (who is from Russia) once posted here:
lost_soul wrote:
My dictionary is notorious Lingvo 11.0

I think his use of the word 'notorious' was probably quite appropriate.
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How to use delusion and elusion? What is the meaning of them? #6 (permalink) Fri Aug 22, 2008 14:40 pm   How to use delusion and elusion? What is the meaning of them?
 

ah, ok (( which dictionary would you recommend?
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How to use delusion and elusion? What is the meaning of them? #7 (permalink) Fri Aug 22, 2008 15:23 pm   How to use delusion and elusion? What is the meaning of them?
 

Hi Bonnie

www.onelook.com is an excellent source.
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