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What is the difference between faint and feint?

Feints are maneuvers designed to distract or mislead. The two types of feints in military tactics are feint attacks and feint retreats.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feint

faint (fānt)

adj., faint·er, faint·est.

Lacking strength or vigor; feeble.

Lacking conviction, boldness, or courage; timid.

Lacking brightness: a faint light in the gloom.

Lacking clarity or distinctness: a faint recollection.

Likely to fall into a faint; dizzy and weak: felt faint for a moment.

n.

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The signal coming from the downed aircraft grew faint after we had been tracking it for an hour through the jungle.

Feint is an noun, referring to any attempt to convince someone else that your main action would be of one sort or one direction when you were only trying to draw them off guard while you prepared an action in another direction.

The general dispatched one troop south, telling them to raise a lot of dust and make noise, so their feint would cause his enemy to commit troops in that direction while he advanced with the main body of forces from the northeast to launch an attack.

to feint is a military or fencing action where your maneuvers are designed to distract or mislead your attacker