Game
[geɪm] or [ɡem]
Definition
(noun.) an amusement or pastime; 'they played word games'; 'he thought of his painting as a game that filled his empty time'; 'his life was all fun and games'.
(noun.) a contest with rules to determine a winner; 'you need four people to play this game'.
(noun.) a single play of a sport or other contest; 'the game lasted two hours'.
(noun.) frivolous or trifling behavior; 'for actors, memorizing lines is no game'; 'for him, life is all fun and games'.
(noun.) your occupation or line of work; 'he's in the plumbing game'; 'she's in show biz'.
(noun.) animal hunted for food or sport.
(noun.) the game equipment needed in order to play a particular game; 'the child received several games for his birthday'.
(noun.) the flesh of wild animals that is used for food.
(noun.) (games) the score at a particular point or the score needed to win; 'the game is 6 all'; 'he is serving for the game'.
(noun.) (tennis) a division of play during which one player serves.
(adj.) willing to face danger .
Typist: Pansy--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.
(v. i.) Sport of any kind; jest, frolic.
(v. i.) A contest, physical or mental, according to certain rules, for amusement, recreation, or for winning a stake; as, a game of chance; games of skill; field games, etc.
(v. i.) The use or practice of such a game; a single match at play; a single contest; as, a game at cards.
(v. i.) That which is gained, as the stake in a game; also, the number of points necessary to be scored in order to win a game; as, in short whist five points are game.
(v. i.) In some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest.
(v. i.) A scheme or art employed in the pursuit of an object or purpose; method of procedure; projected line of operations; plan; project.
(v. i.) Animals pursued and taken by sportsmen; wild meats designed for, or served at, table.
(a.) Having a resolute, unyielding spirit, like the gamecock; ready to fight to the last; plucky.
(a.) Of or pertaining to such animals as are hunted for game, or to the act or practice of hunting.
(n.) To rejoice; to be pleased; -- often used, in Old English, impersonally with dative.
(n.) To play at any sport or diversion.
(n.) To play for a stake or prize; to use cards, dice, billiards, or other instruments, according to certain rules, with a view to win money or other thing waged upon the issue of the contest; to gamble.
Inputed by Doris
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Sport, play, amusement, pastime.[2]. Plan, scheme, enterprise, adventure, undertaking, measure.[3]. Animals of the chase.[4]. Quarry, prey.
a. Courageous, brave, resolute, unflinching, fearless, valorous, chivalrous, dauntless, intrepid, gallant, heroic.
v. n. Gamble, play for money.
Editor: Vanessa
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Sport, recreation, pastime, amusement, frolic, diversion, play
ANT:Study, toil, labor, business, duty, weariness, flagging
Checker: Rupert
Definition
adj. (slang) crooked lame.
n. sport of any kind: an exercise or contest for recreation or amusement esp. athletic contests: the stake in a game: the manner of playing a game: the requisite number of points to be gained to win a game: jest sport trick artifice: any object of pursuit or desire: (Shak.) gallantry: the spoil of the chase: wild animals protected by law and hunted by sportsmen the flesh of such—hares pheasants partridges grouse blackcock.—adj. of or belonging to such animals as are hunted as game: plucky courageous: (slang) having the spirit to do something.—v.i. to gamble.—ns. Game′-bag a bag for holding a sportsman's game also the whole amount of game taken at one time; Game′cock a cock trained to fight; Game′keeper one who has the care of game.—n.pl. Game′-laws laws relating to the protection of certain animals called game.—adv. Gamely.—ns. Game′ness; Game′-preserv′er one who preserves game on his property for his own sport or profit.—adj. Game′some playful.—ns. Game′someness sportiveness: merriment; Game′ster one viciously addicted to gambling: a gambler; Game′-ten′ant one who rents the privilege of shooting or fishing over a particular estate or district; Gam′ing gambling; Gam′ing-house a gambling-house a hell; Gam′ing-tā′ble a table used for gambling.—adj. Gam′y having the flavour of dead game kept till tainted: (coll.) spirited plucky.—Big game the larger animals hunted; Die game to keep up courage to the last; Make a game of to play with real energy or skill; Make game of to make sport of to ridicule; Red game the Scotch ptarmigan; Round game a game as at cards in which the number of players is not fixed; The game is not worth the candle (see Candle); The game is up the game is started: the scheme has failed.
Edited by Diana
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of game, either shooting or killing or by other means, denotes fortunate undertakings; but selfish motions; if you fail to take game on a hunt, it denotes bad management and loss.
Typed by Bartholdi
Examples
- You made a quiet little round game of it, among a family group, and you played it out at leisure. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- At every court there were groups of ministers and secretaries who played a Machiavellian game against their foreign rivals. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Anybody here seen anything of any such game? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- They all rose up in preparation for a round game. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- From then on scarcely a day passed that did not bring its offering of game or other food. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- That is big game. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Ah, my good sir, you'll have to try the race again and again,--the game isn't there. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Truth isn't a bad game, said Fred. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The whole game was one of subtle inter-suggestivity, and they wanted to keep it on the plane of suggestion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Mr. Sam Wynne coming up with great haste, to insist on the elder girls joining in the game as well as the younger ones, Caroline was again left alone. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- With all the chances thus in our favour I confronted the next emergency, and played the second move in the game. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The poor relations caught the people who they thought would like it, and, when the game flagged, got caught themselves. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- This game was brought from Holland by those colonists who settled Manhattan Island in 1623. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I know every move of your game. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was an open move in the game, and played fairly. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- We bought books and magazines in the town and a copy of Hoyle and learned many two-handed card games. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I'd like to play a few more games at billiards with him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The captain was having a great success with finger games. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- No games to-morrow! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- No, no; we both hate silent games that only keep one's hands employed, don't we? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- When you were carrying on some games up at the top of the house. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I spent no time in taverns, games, or frolics of any kind, and my industry in my business continued as indefatigable as it was necessary. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- A few days only elapsed, however, before we were dragged forth from our dungeon for the great games. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- I have got the run of Queer Street now, and you shall see some games there. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Have games till it's cooler. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- That you will be thrown to the wild calots [dogs] in the great arena as soon as the hordes have assembled for the yearly games. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Agnes played the piano to him, sat by him, and worked and talked, and played some games at dominoes with me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It is not enough just to introduce plays and games, hand work and manual exercises. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Mankind has certainly come nearer to justifying Mr. Chesterton's observation that one of its favorite games is called Cheat the Prophet. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Naturally this astonished me very much, as he is a man who cares little or nothing for the ordinary games, with the single exception of parcheesi, of which he is very fond. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Editor: William