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Енглески

Систем

ен+нг=енг



Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Средњи Енглески game, gamen, gammen, from Стари Енглески gamen (“sport, joy, mirth, pastime, game, amusement, pleasure”), from Пра-Западно Германски *gaman, from Пра-Германски *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”), Шведски gamman (“mirth, rejoicing, merriment”), Icelandic gaman (“fun”). Related to gammon, gamble.

Noun

game (countable and uncountable, plural games)

  2. A playful or competitive activity.
    2. A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
      Синоними: amusement, diversion, entertainment, festivity, frolic, fun, gaiety, gambol, lark, merriment, merrymaking, pastime, play, prank, recreation, sport, spree
      Антоними: drudgery, work, toil
      Being a child is all fun and games.
    3. (countable) An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.
      Синоним: Thesaurus:game
      • 1983, Lawrence Lasker et al., WarGames:
        Joshua: Shall we play a game?
        David: ... Love to. How about Global Thermonuclear War?
        Joshua: Wouldn't you prefer a good game of chess?
        David: Later. Let's play Global Thermonuclear War.
        Joshua: Fine.
      Games in the classroom can make learning fun.
    4. (UK, in the plural) A school subject during which sports are practised.
    6. (countable) A particular instance of playing a game.
      Синоним: match
      Sally won the game.
      They can turn the game around in the second half.
    8. That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.
    10. The number of points necessary to win a game.
      In short whist, five points are game.
      See also: for the win
    12. (card games) In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.
    14. (countable) The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.
      Some of the games in the closet we have on the computer as well.
    16. One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.
      Study can help your game of chess.
      Hit the gym if you want to toughen up your game.
    18. (countable) Script error: The function "show_from" does not exist. video game.
      • 2019 мај 8, Jon Bailes, “Save yourself! The video games casting us as helpless children”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
        There’s a sense here, as well as in games such as Limbo, that we’re making ourselves experience our children’s reality, trapped in the chaos that the adults have created.
  4. (now rare) Lovemaking, flirtation.
  6. (slang) Шаблон:1. (Now chiefly in on the game.)
  8. (countable, informal, nearly always singular) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
    Синоним: line
    When it comes to making sales, John is the best in the game.
    He's in the securities game somehow.
  10. (countable, figurative) Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
    In the game of life, you may find yourself playing the waiting game far too often.
  12. (countable, military) An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
    Синоним: wargame
  14. (countable) A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal.
    Синоними: scheme, racket
    You want to borrow my credit card for a week? What's your game?
    • 1845, Blackwood Magazine:
      Your murderous game is nearly up.
    • 1902, George Saintsbury, Dryden, page 182:
      It was obviously Lord Macaulay's game to blacken the greatest literary champion of the cause he had set himself to attack.
  16. (uncountable) Wild animals hunted for food.
    The forest has plenty of game.
    • 1907, John Burroughs, Camping & Tramping with Roosevelt‎[2], Houghton Mifflin Company, →OCLC, pages 5–6:
      I had known the President several years before he became famous, and we had had some correspondence on subjects of natural history. His interest in such themes is always very fresh and keen, and the main motive of his visit to the Park at this time was to see and study in its semi-domesticated condition the great game which he had so often hunted during his ranch days; and he was kind enough to think it would be an additional pleasure to see it with a nature-lover like myself.
  18. (uncountable, informal, used mostly for men) The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.
    He didn't get anywhere with her because he had no game.
    • 1998, “She's Strange”, performed by Nate Dogg:
      She's strange, so strange, but I didn't complain / She said yes to me when I ran my game
  20. (uncountable, slang) Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
    • 1998, “He Got Game”, performed by Public Enemy:
      What is game? Who got game? / Where's the game in life, behind the game behind the game / I got game, she's got game / We got game, they got game, he got game
    • 2005, Kermit Ernest Campbell, Gettin' Our Groove on: Rhetoric, Language, and Literacy for the Hip Hop Generation, →ISBN, page 123:
      In the contemporary arts of the academic contact zone, I say African American students got game!
    • 2009, Michael Marshall, Bad Things, →ISBN, page 24:
      My dad had game at that kind of thing, and I spent long periods as a child watching him.
  21. (uncountable, archaic) Diversion, entertainment.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Brazilian Portuguese: game
  • → Холандски: gamen, game
  • → Ирски: géim
  • → Јапански: ゲーム
  • → Корејски: 게임 (geim), 겜 (gem)
  • → Norman: gamme
  • → Норвешки: gamen, game
  • → Шпански: game
  • → Велшки: gêm
  • → Фински: geimit
Translations
video game — See also translations at video game
Преводе у наставку треба проверити и уметнути изнад у одговарајуће табеле превода. Видите инструкције на Викиречник:Унос § Преводи.

Adjective

game (comparative gamer, superlative gamest)

  1. (colloquial) Willing and able to participate.
    Синоними: sporting, willing, daring, disposed, favorable, nervy, courageous, valiant
    Антоними: cautious, disinclined
    • Шаблон:RQ:Melville Moby-Dick
    • 2016 фебруар 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London):
      Some of Grimsby’s other (extraordinarily up-to-date) targets include Donald Trump and Daniel Radcliffe, whose fates here are too breath-catchingly cruel to spoil, and also the admirably game Strong, whose character is beset by a constant stream of humiliations that hit with the force of a jet of…well, you’ll see.
  2. (of an animal) 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.
Translations

Verb

game (third-person singular simple present games, present participle gaming, simple past and past participle gamed)

  1. (intransitive) To gamble.
  2. (intransitive) To play card games, board games, or video games.
    • 2017 јун 16, Joanna Walters, “Inside the rehab saving young men from their internet addiction”, in The Guardian‎[3]:
      “The first few days after getting here are weird. It’s a version of cold turkey because you’ve been gaming around the clock and suddenly, nothing. […] ”
  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.
    We'll bury them in paperwork, and game the system.
    • 2012 август 31, Amanda Holpuch, “Trolls game Taylor Swift competition in favor of school for the hearing impaired”, in The Guardian‎[4]:
      A large batch of online trolls have gamed a web contest that promises a Taylor Swift performance at any school in the US. The target? Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
    • 2020 фебруар 6, Alex Hern, quoting Natalie Hitchins, “Amazon Choice label is being 'gamed to promote poor products'”, in The Guardian‎[5]:
      “Amazon risks betraying the trust millions of customers place in the Amazon’s Choice badge by allowing its endorsement to be all too easily gamed,” said Which?’s Natalie Hitchins.
    • 2023 јануар 25, Christian Wolmar, “An informative cab ride on the state of the railway”, in RAIL, number 975, page 34:
      It is an example of what real entrepreneurship can do on the railway, but sadly there are not many other examples. Most of the private sector businesses in rail are simply 'gaming' the system, trying to outdo or outthink the regulator and the Government in order to generate profit.
  4. (transitive, seduction community, slang, of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
    • 2005 октобар 6, “Picking up the pieces”, in The Economist‎[6]:
      Returning briefly to his journalistic persona to interview Britney Spears, he finds himself gaming her, and she gives him her phone number.
    • 2010, Mystery, The Pickup Artist: The New and Improved Art of Seduction, Villard Books, →ISBN, page 100:
      A business associate of mine at the time, George Wu, sat across the way, gaming a stripper the way I taught him.
    • 2010 јул 9, Sheila McClear, “Would you date a pickup artist?”, in New York Post‎[7]:
      How did Amanda know she wasn’t getting gamed? Well, she didn’t. “I would wonder, ‘Is he saying stuff to other girls that he says to me?’ We did everything we could to cut it off […] yet we somehow couldn’t.”
Derived terms
Translations
to gamble — see gamble

Etymology 2

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.

Adjective

game (comparative more game, superlative most game)

  1. (of a limb) Injured, lame.
    • Шаблон:RQ:Henry Four Million
    • 1930, Edna Ferber, Cimarron, page 29:
      He was done for, all right. I took out my six-shooter and aimed right between his eyes. He kicked once, sort of leaped—or tried to, and then lay still. I stood there a minute, to see if he had to have another. He was so game that, some way, I didn’t want to give him more than he needed.

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Anagrams

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Кинески


Alternative forms

Etymology

From Енглески game (Cheung, 2007, page 220).

Pronunciation

Lua грешка in Модул:zh-pron at line 972: attempt to call upvalue 'explode_chars' (a nil value).

Noun

game

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) game (especially video games and online games) (Класификатор: 隻／只 c)

Derived terms

References

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Енглески game.

Noun

game m (plural games, diminutive gamepje n)

  1. A video game, an electronic game.
    Синоними: videogame, videospel
Hyponyms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

game

  1. inflection of gamen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive
    3. imperative

Middle English

Etymology 1

    Етимолошко стабло
    Стари Енглески gamen
    Средњи Енглески game

    From Стари Енглески gamen／gomen, from Пра-Западно Германски *gaman, from Пра-Германски *gamaną, of disputed origin.

    Alternative forms

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    game (plural games or game)

    1. Entertainment or an instance of it; that which is enjoyable:
      1. A sport or other outdoor or physical activity.
      2. A game; a codified (and often competitive) form of entertainment.
      3. Sexual or romantic entertainment or activity (including intercourse in itself).
      4. An amusing, joking, or humorous activity or event.
    2. Any kind of event or occurrence; something that happens:
      1. An endeavour; a set of actions towards a goal.
      2. Any kind of activity having competition or rivalry.
    3. The state of being happy or joyful.
    4. Game; wild animals hunted for food.
    5. (rare) One's quarry; that which one is trying to catch.
    6. (rare) Gamesmanship; gaming behaviour.
    7. (rare) The reward for winning a game.
    Derived terms
    Descendants
    References

    Etymology 2

    From Стари Енглески gæmnian, gamnian, gamenian.

    Verb

    game

    1. Alternative form of gamen
    Језици (2)
    Dutch • Middle English
    Страна категорија

    Португалски

    Etymology 1

    Unadapted borrowing из Енглески game.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    game m (plural games)

    1. (Brazil) electronic game (game played on an electronic device, such as a computer game, a video game or the like)
      Синоними: videojogo, jogo
    Quotations

    За наводе коришћења овог термина, видите Цитати:game.

    See also

    Etymology 2

    See the etymology of the main entry.

    Pronunciation

     
     

    • Риме: (Portugal) -ɐmɨ, (Brazil) -ɐ̃mi
    • Хифенација: ga‧me

    Verb

    game

    1. Шаблон:pt-verb form of/error of gamar

    Шпански

    Noun

    game m (plural games)

    1. (tennis) game

    Шведски

    Etymology

    Позајмљено од Енглески game. Attested since 1900.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    game n

    1. (tennis, squash) game
    2. (slang) game (ability to seduce someone)
      Синоним: rizz

    Declension

    Declension of game 
    Singular Plural
    Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
    Nominative game gameet game gameen
    Genitive games gameets games gameens

    Derived terms

    References

    Вијетнамски


    Etymology

    Енглески game

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    game

    1. (video games) Synonym of trò chơi điện tử (“a video game”)

    See also

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