game

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A playful or competitive activity.
2. (countable) A playful or competitive activity.
3. (UK, countable, in-plural, uncountable) A playful or competitive activity.
4. (countable) A playful or competitive activity.
5. (countable, uncountable) A playful or competitive activity.
6. (countable, uncountable) A playful or competitive activity.
7. (countable, uncountable) A playful or competitive activity.
8. (countable) A playful or competitive activity.
9. (countable, uncountable) A playful or competitive activity.
10. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis) A playful or competitive activity.
11. (countable, informal) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
12. (countable, figuratively) Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
13. (countable) An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
14. (countable) A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal.
15. (uncountable) Wild animals hunted for food.
16. (informal, uncountable) The ability to seduce or woo someone, usually by strategy.
17. (archaic, countable, uncountable) Lovemaking, flirtation.
18. (countable, slang, uncountable) Prostitution. (Now chiefly in on the game.)
19. (slang, uncountable) Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
20. (archaic, uncountable) Diversion, entertainment.

Adj

1. (colloquial) Willing and able to participate.
2. That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.
3. Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To gamble.
2. (intransitive) To play card games, board games, or video games.
3. (transitive) To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
4. (slang, transitive) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.

Adj

Injured, lame.

Sinònims

play

match

sport

contest

fun

competition

recreation

bout

amusement

booty

playing

dance

💃

trick

meat

🥩

plot

set

gaming

entertainment

stake

spunky

pastime

toy

plaything

catch

gamble

gamey

joke

🤣

gamy

lame

gimpy

secret plan

song and dance

bold

dirty trick

hunting

round

diversion

intrigue

dodge

jugglery

eager

back

🔙

spirited

sports

event

strategy

animal

🐾

mettlesome

technique

tournament

mirth

festivity

trickery

act

crippled

bet

daring

frolic

performance

gage

wildfowl

willing

gritty

prizefight

bet on

halt

halting

punt

biz

race

ready

preserve

pretense

prey

proceeding

program

prompt

quarry

realm

resource

result

rollick

ruse

scheme

scrimmage

season

showdown

shrewd

spar

spell

sphere

spoils

storyline

strewing

strife

struggle

tactic

tactics

tame

tourney

toy with

trifle

trophy

🏆

tug

turn

tussle

twiddle

undertaking

up

🆙

venison

vocation

wager

wangle

wildlife

yare

animal food

crucial moment

game fowl

piece of music

plot line

public office

subject area

unsociable person

wild beast

wild beasts

wild fowl

dramatic presentation

feast 3

wild birds

behaviour

drama

fish

🐟

gambling

games

prostitution

children’s game

a kind of children’s game

gamebird

hunted animals

wild animals

athletic game

football play

the halt

game playing

wild quadruped mammal

part

acrobatics

adventuresome

adventurous

agent

amuse

area

areola

artifice

bag

bailiwick

battle

beef

carnival

ceilidh

cheat

child’s play

circumstances

clue

combat

complaisant

confines

contrivance

countermeasure

courageous

cripple

dally

deception

delight

department

device

distraction

escapade

exercise

face-off

fall

feast

field

final

fool around

forward

fowl

gutsy

headstrong

heave

hint

hobby

inkling

inning

jest

kill

🔪🩸👤

line

make-believe

manoeuvre

meet

meeting

merriment

metier

monkey

🐒

neighborly

neighbourly

officious

orbit

party

🥳

perform

plan

playfulness

ploy

position

prank

Traduccions

jeu

Spiel

juego

spel

gibier

Wild

partie

oyun

match

Partie

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ɡeɪm/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: game

Heretat de anglès antic: gamen

Cognat amb Old Frisian: game

Cognat amb alt alemany mitjà: gamen

Cognat amb suec: gamman

Cognat amb islandès: gaman

In summary

From Middle English game, gamen, gammen, from Old English gamen (“sport, joy, mirth, pastime, game, amusement, pleasure”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaman, from Proto-Germanic *gamaną (“amusement, pleasure, game", literally "participation, communion, people together”), from *ga- (collective prefix) + *mann- (“man”); or alternatively from *ga- + a root from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think, have in mind”).
Cognate with Old Frisian game, gome (“joy, amusement, entertainment”), Middle High German gamen (“joy, amusement, fun, pleasure”), Swedish gamman (“mirth, rejoicing, merriment”), Icelandic gaman (“fun”). Related to gammon, gamble.

Frases

There is no set release date for the game .

" It has been a good game ," he says before he dies .

After character creation the game runs its course .

Sunday Mirror thought Goodman was at the core of the game .

It is a side-scrolling platform game .

The game was narrated by Tom Baker of " Doctor Who " fame .