game

Betekenis

Noun

1. A playful or competitive activity.
2. A playful or competitive activity.
3. A playful or competitive activity.
4. A playful or competitive activity.
5. A playful or competitive activity.
6. A playful or competitive activity.
7. A playful or competitive activity.
8. A playful or competitive activity.
9. A playful or competitive activity.
10. A playful or competitive activity.
11. Lovemaking, flirtation.
12. (slang) Prostitution. (Now chiefly in on the game.)
13. (informal) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
14. Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
15. An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
16. A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal.
17. Wild animals hunted for food.
18. (informal) The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.
19. (slang) Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
20. 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. To gamble.
2. To play card games, board games, or video games.
3. 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) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.

Adj

Injured, lame.

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ɡeɪm/

Etymologie

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.

Zinnen

His next video game will be " A Way Out ".

Zijn volgende videogame zal "A Way Out" zijn.

This combination of colours are traditional for the national team since their first game .

Deze combinatie van kleuren is traditioneel voor het nationale team sinds hun eerste game.

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

Sunday Mirror dacht dat Goodman de kern van het spel stond.

Who won last night's game ?

Wie heeft de wedstrijd van gisteravond gewonnen?

And , eventually , man will nourish your sands , where the game will once again flourish .

En uiteindelijk zal de mens je zand voeden, waar het spel weer zal bloeien.

Tartakower's interpretation and treatment of the opening generally led to a closed , manoeuvring game .

De interpretatie en behandeling van de opening van Tartakower leidde in het algemeen tot een gesloten, manoeuvreerspel.