game

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Енглески

Pronunciation

• enPR: gām, МФА^(key): /ɡeɪm/

• Audio (US)

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• Риме: -eɪm

Etymology 1

From Middle English game, gamen, gammen, from Old English gamen (gamen, “sport, joy, mirth, pastime, game, amusement, pleasure”), from , from , from + ; or alternatively from + a root from .

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

2. A playful or competitive activity.
   2. A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.

      Синонимs: amusement, diversion, entertainment, festivity, frolic, fun, gaiety, gambol, lark, merriment, merrymaking, pastime, play, prank, recreation, sport, spree

      Антонимs: 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, WarGames, written by Lawrence Lasker & al.:

        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.
      • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 37:

        From time to time, track-suited boys ran past them, with all the deadly purpose and humourless concentration of those who enjoyed Games.

   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.

      • Шаблон:RQ:Ferguson Zollenstein
   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.

       • Шаблон:RQ:Salinger Catcher
   18. (countable) 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) Prostitution. (Now chiefly in on the game.)
   • Шаблон:RQ:Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida
   • 1755, Tobias Smollett, translating Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, Volume 1, I.2:

     [H]e put spurs to his horse, and just in the twilight reached the gate, where, at that time, there happened to be two ladies of the game Шаблон:transterm, who being on their journey to Seville, with the carriers, had chanced to take up their night's lodging in this place.

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.

    • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i], strana 77, column 2:

      I ſee you ſtand like Grey-hounds in the ſlips, / Straying vpon the Start. The Game’s afoot:

    • Шаблон:RQ:Ferguson Zollenstein
    • 2013 јул 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, strana 18:

      Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too.

12. (countable, military) An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.

    Синоним: wargame

14. (uncountable) wild animals hunted for food.

    The forest has plenty of game.

    • 1907, Burroughs, John, Camping & Tramping with Roosevelt‎^[2], Houghton Mifflin Company, OCLC 66781573, strane 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.

16. (uncountable, informal, used mostly of males) 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

18. (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, strana 123:

      In the contemporary arts of the academic contact zone, I say African American students got game!

    • 2009, Michael Marshall, Bad Things, →ISBN, strana 24:

      My dad had game at that kind of thing, and I spent long periods as a child watching him.

20. (countable) A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal.

    Синонимs: 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, strana 182:

      It was obviously Lord Macaulay's game to blacken the greatest literary champion of the cause he had set himself to attack.

Derived terms

• A game
• ahead of the game
• all fun and games
• away game
• back in the game
• be game
• big game
• board game
• card game
• change the game
• computer game
• drinking game
• endgame
• end of the ballgame, end of the ball game
• fair game
• game changer
• game club
• gamecock
• game for a laugh
• gamely
• game of chance
• game of luck
• game of skill
• game of strategy
• game on
• game over
• game plan
• gameplay
• gamer
• game rage
• game, set, match
• game show
• gamesmanship
• game theory
• gamey
• gamy
• give the game away
• guessing game
• have fun and games
• home game
• knife game
• long game
• metagame
• metagaming
• mind game
• mug's game
• name of the game
• new to the game
• numbers game
• off one's game
• only game in town
• on one's game
• on the game
• parlour game
• party game
• play games
• play the game
• reindeer games
• road game
• role-playing game
• shell game
• small game
• stage of the game
• strategy game
• talk a good game
• two can play that game
• up one's game
• video game
• waiting game
• war game
• whole new ball game
• word game
• zero-sum game, zero sum game

 

Descendants

• → Dutch: gamen, game
• → Корејски: 게임 (geim), 겜 (gem)
• → Norman: gamme
• → Norwegian: gamen, game
• → Spanish: game
• → Welsh: gêm

Translations

playful activity that may be unstructured, amusement, pastime

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activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment

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particular instance of playing a game; match

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that which is gained, such as the stake in a game

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number of points necessary to win a game

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card games: point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum

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equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title

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one's manner, style, or performance in playing a game

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amorous dalliance

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video game — See also translations at video game

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field of an industry or profession

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exercise simulating warfare

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ability to successfully seduce someone

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mastery; the ability to excel at something

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questionable, unethical, or illegal practice

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The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Swedish: ^{(молим проверите)}

Adjective

1. (colloquial) Willing to participate.

   Синонимs: sporting, willing, daring, disposed, favorable, nervy, courageous, valiant

   Антонимs: 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

willing to participate

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Verb

game (transliteration needed)

1. (intransitive) To gamble.
   • 1898, “George Washington: Statesman, Christian Gentleman”, in Suggestive programs for special day exercises:

     en

     —an impressive protest against gaming, swearing, and all immoral practices which might forfeit divine aid in the great struggle for National Independence

1. (intransitive) To play card games, board games, or video games.
2. (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^[3]:

     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^[4]:

     “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.

3. (transitive, seduction community, slang, of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
   • 2005 октобар 6, “Picking up the pieces”, in The Economist‎^[5]:

     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, strana 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^[6]:

     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

• game the system
• gamer

Translations

to gamble — see gamble

To play games

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to defeat the rules in order to obtain a result

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Etymology 2

Adjective

game (transliteration needed)

1. Injured, lame (of a limb).
   • around 1900, O. Henry, Lost on Dress Parade

     You come with me and we'll have a cozy dinner and a pleasant talk together, and by that time your game ankle will carry you home very nicely, I am sure."

See also

• game на Википедији.Википедији

Anagrams

• MEGA, Mega, mage, mega, mega- ^{(alphagram aegm)}

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Кинески

		фонетски
једн. and трад. (game)		g	a	m	e
алтернативне форме		驚／惊

Etymology

From Енглески game.

Pronunciation

• Кантонски (Jyutping): gem¹

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• Кантонски
  • (Стандард Кантонски, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gem¹
    • Yale: colloquial sounds not defined
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gem¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: colloquial sounds not defined
    • Sinological МФА ^(key): /kɛːm⁵⁵/

Noun

game

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

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• МФА^(key): /ɡeːm/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: game
• Риме: -eːm

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Енглески game.

Noun

1. A video game, an electronic game.

   Синонимs: videogame, videospel

Hyponyms

• computerspel

Related terms

• gamen
• gamer

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

game (transliteration needed)

1. first-person singular present indicative of gamen
2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of gamen
3. imperative of gamen

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English gamen (gamen), gomen (gomen), from , from , of disputed origin.

Alternative forms

• gamen, gemen, gomen, gome, gammen, gaume, gamme, gamin, gomin, gomyn, gomun, gam, geme

Pronunciation

• МФА^(key): /ˈɡaːm(ə)/, /ˈɡam(ə)/, /ˈɡaːmən/, /ˈɡamən/
• (from OE gomen (gomen)) МФА^(key): /ˈɡɔːm(ə)/, /ˈɡɔːmən/
• (Kent) МФА^(key): /ˈɡɛːm(ə)/, /ˈɡɛːmən/

Noun

game (transliteration needed) (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 .
   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

• gameful
• gamely
• gamen

Descendants

• Енглески: game, gammon (dialectal gam) (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: gemme, gem, gyem

References

• “gāme” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-07-09.

Etymology 2

From Old English gæmnian (gæmnian), gamnian (gamnian), gamenian (gamenian).

Verb

game (transliteration needed)

1. form of gamen

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Португалски

Etymology 1

Unadapted borrowing од Енглески game.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) МФА^(key): /ˈɡejm/, /ˈɡej.mi/

Noun

game (transliteration needed) m (plural games)

1. (Brazil) electronic game

   Синонимs: videojogo, jogo

Quotations

За наводе коришћења овог термина, видите Цитати:game.

See also

• jogo

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

game (transliteration needed)

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of gamar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of gamar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of gamar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of gamar

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Шпански

Noun

game (transliteration needed) m (plural games)

1. (tennis) game

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Шведски

Etymology

Позајмљено од Енглески game. Attested since 1900.

Pronunciation

• Homophone: gem

Noun

game (transliteration needed) n

1. game

Declension

Declension of game
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	game	gamet	game	gamen
Genitive	games	gamets	games	gamens

Derived terms

• gammal i gamet

References

• game in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• game in Svensk ordbok (SO)