Definition of game in English English dictionary
- Willing to participate
I'm game, would you like to tell me how ? - From the computer game Adventure.
- To gamble
- Wild animals hunted for food
The forest has plenty of game.
- An animal that shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely
- An exercise simulating warfare for the purpose of training personnel, testing combat readiness, or to better understand various possible outcomes of various strategies or tactics. The exercise may involve human participants, or may it may be simulated, often with the aid of computers
- To play games and be a gamer
- A pursuit or activity with rules performed either alone or with others, for the purpose of entertainment. In many games, the objective is to win by defeating the other player or players or being the first to reach a specified goal, while in others, role-playing or cooperation is emphasized
Shall we play a game?.
- A contest between two individuals or teams. A game may refer to the entire encounter between the two (e.g. a basketball game), or to just one contest of several required to win (e.g. a tennis game)
- The ability to successfully seduce someone into a romantic relationship, usually achieved by pre-meditated strategy
He didn't get anywhere with her because he had no game.''.
- To use a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable
We'll bury them in paperwork, and game the system.
- The entire being of an industry, activity or profession
When it comes to making sales, John is the best in the game.
- {n} a play, sport, jest, animals pursued
- {v} to play extravagantly, sport, deride
- 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"
- Crooked; lame; as, a game leg
- If you are new to a particular game, you have not done a particular activity or been in a particular situation before. Don't forget that she's new to this game and will take a while to complete the task
- willing to face danger
- You can use game to describe a way of behaving in which a person uses a particular plan, usually in order to gain an advantage for himself or herself. Until now, the Americans have been playing a very delicate political game
- An item or set of materials designed for play according to prescribed or implicit rules and intended for recreation or instruction See also Kit
- A competitive and often good humoured pastime played to particular rules The packaging and boards or cards which are sometimes used may contain illustrations A type of MERCHANDISE
- Unlike many other sports, in tennis this term does not refer to the entire competition, but rather to one portion of it A game is a series of points played until the winner has reached four points and has two more than his or her opponent Scoring follows this pattern: love, 15, 20, 30, 40, deuce, advantage
- (games) the score at a particular point or the score needed to win; "the game is 6 all"; "he is serving for the game"
- a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal); "they concocted a plot to discredit the governor"; "I saw through his little game from the start"
- a contest of person against person or team against team A game consists of freedoms, barriers and purposes, and there is a necessity in a game to have an opponent or an enemy Also there is a necessity to have problems, and enough individuality to cope with a situation To live life fully, then, one must have in addition to "something to do," a higher purpose, and this purpose, to be a purpose at all, must have counter-purposes or purposes which prevent it from occurring
- Of or pertaining to such animals as are hunted for game, or to the act or practice of hunting
- Having a resolute, unyielding spirit, like the gamecock; ready to fight to the last; plucky
- A physical or mental competition in which the participants, called players, seek to achieve some objective within a given set of rules See also game theory
- Games are an organized event in which competitions in several sports take place. the 2000 Olympic Games at Sydney
- To play at any sport or diversion
- a single play of a game; "the game lasted 2 hours"
- A table tennis game ends when one player has scored at least 11 or 21 points and at least 2 more than the opposing player International rules now call for an 11-point game, but the 21-point game is still often used in informal player See deuce
- The use or practice of such a game; a single match at play; a single contest; as, a game at cards
- If you beat someone at their own game, you use the same methods that they have used, but more successfully, so that you gain an advantage over them. He must anticipate the maneuvers of the other lawyers and beat them at their own game The police knew that to trap the killer they had to play him at his own game
- place a bet on; "Which horse are you backing?"; "I'm betting on the new horse"
- The establishment and play of a game contract following any one deal (Spiel )
- (n ) The entire period of play, ending when the score of at least one team reaches or exceeds the designated limit
- A game is made when one team scores 100 points Whichever side makes two games first wins the rubber
- In some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest
- animal hunted for food or sport
- Either 250 points (or alternatively 500 points), seven marks, or the team with the highest score after five or seven hands, depending on the scoring rules you are using
- You can describe a situation that you do not treat seriously as a game. Many people regard life as a game: you win some, you lose some
- If someone or something gives the game away, they reveal a secret or reveal their feelings, and this puts them at a disadvantage. The faces of the two conspirators gave the game away
- 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
- To rejoice; to be pleased; often used, in Old English, impersonally with dative
- your occupation or line of work; "he's in the plumbing game"; "she's in show biz"
- the flesh of wild animals that is used for food (games) the score at a particular point or the score needed to win; "the game is 6 all"; "he is serving for the game"
- {s} ready; willing; courageous; lame (of a leg); handicapped, disabled
- A game is an activity or sport usually involving skill, knowledge, or chance, in which you follow fixed rules and try to win against an opponent or to solve a puzzle. the wonderful game of football. a playful game of hide-and-seek. a video game
- A game consists of six periods called chukkers, each seven minutes in duration A period of four minutes is allowed between chukkers to change horses
- means all animals [and game birds] for the time being specified in the First Schedule of the Wildlife Act (Wildlife Act 1953)
- the game equipment needed to play a game; "the child received several games for his birthday"
- {f} play games of chance; bet, wager
- A game is one particular occasion on which a game is played. It was the first game of the season He regularly watched our games from the stands We won three games against Australia. = match
- Games are organized sports activities that children do at school. At his grammar school he is remembered for being bad at games but good in debates. = sport
- 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
- Wild animals or birds that are hunted for sport and sometimes cooked and eaten are referred to as game. men who shot game for food
- If you are game for something, you are willing to do something new, unusual, or risky. After all this time he still had new ideas and was game to try them He said he's game for a similar challenge next year. see also gamely
- A contest between two teams which usually consists of 8 1/2 or 9 innings
- a contest with rules to determine a winner; "you need four people to play this game" a single play of a game; "the game lasted 2 hours" 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" frivolous or trifling behavior; "for actors, memorizing lines is no game"; "for him, life is all fun and games" your occupation or line of work; "he's in the plumbing game"; "she's in show biz" animal hunted for food or sport the game equipment needed to play a game; "the child received several games for his birthday" the flesh of wild animals that is used for food (games) the score at a particular point or the score needed to win; "the game is 6 all"; "he is serving for the game" willing to face danger
- Willing to participate. (No or .)
- A pursuit or activity with rules performed either alone or with others, for the purpose of entertainment
- The improvised bits performed on the show, i e : "Party Quirks", "Props", "Hoedown"
- If you say the game is up, you mean that someone's secret plans or activities have been revealed and therefore must stop because they cannot succeed. Some thought they would hold out until Sunday. The realists knew that the game was already up. Crippled; lame: a game leg. game show game theory Great Game
- Part of a match, commencing with a service and concluding when one player has scored or been awarded nine or ten points (in accordance with the rules)
- Sport played in a lesson at school
- disabled in the feet or legs; "a crippled soldier"; "a game leg"
- Making game requires a contract bid of 3 notrump, 4 hearts, 4 spades, 5 clubs, or 5 diamonds Game generally requires 26 points in notrump and major suits, and 29 points minor suits
- the flesh of wild animals that is used for food
- animal hunted for food or sport the game equipment needed to play a game; "the child received several games for his birthday"
- a contest with rules to determine a winner; "you need four people to play this game"
- game bag
- A bag in which a hunter or poacher carries back dead game
- game bags
- plural form of game bag
- game bird
- A bird that is hunted for sport, especially one used for food
- game birds
- plural form of game bird
- game boards
- plural form of game board
- game clock
- A clock used to time a ball game
- game club
- An organization devoted to bringing game players together
- game console
- A video game console
- game consoles
- plural form of game console
- game drive
- A safari. A trip into the wild to see animals in their own environment
- game engine
- A video game's software engine, it executes the core functionality of the game. May also refer to the graphics engine of the game as well
- game engines
- plural form of game engine
- game face
- The expression of one who is prepared for or is facing a lot of difficult and/or undesirable work, especially when it is imminent
The editor told his star reporter to put his game face on, because he was going to cover a potentially hours-long city council meeting where they were going to discuss the controversial issue and tempers were expected to flare.
- game face
- A facial expression used to prevent giving away one's emotions
- game faces
- plural form of game face
- game fish
- like sport fish
- game master
- The person conducting a role-playing game, generally responsible for controlling all beings and processes other than the players
- game masters
- plural form of game master
- game of chance
- A game in which the outcome is at least partly determined by random variables rather than strictly by strategy
- game of gotcha
- The goal of trickery
Late fees and credit rating are an elaborate game of “gotcha”.
- game of skill
- A game in which the outcome depends mainly on the physical and mental skills of the players, and only secondarily on chance
- game over
- The end of some ongoing situation due to either failure or success
- game over
- A message that appears on the screen of a computer or video game when all of the player's lives have been lost and the game must be started again from a checkpoint or save point, or when the game has been successfully completed
- game plan
- any strategy devised to reach a given objective
So what is the game plan? We need to get everyone out of this alive, and I am clueless.
- game point
- A situation where if one of the two players wins the next point, he or she will win the game (but not the set)
- game port
- An I/O port, on earlier PCs, used for the attachment of a joystick or similar hardware
- game ports
- plural form of game port
- game score
- A metric used to evaluate the value of a pitcher's performance in one game. In a nine-inning game, an average score is 50, and the maximum achievable score is 114
- game scores
- plural form of game score
- game sheet
- A document used in sports in order to keep track of goals, penalties, assists, etc
- game show
- A radio or television programme or an episode of the programme that involves members of the public or celebrities, whether as individuals or as part of a team, playing a game, especially involving the answering of quiz questions, for cash or prizes
- game shows
- plural form of game show
- game the system
- To use the rules and procedures meant to protect a system in order to instead manipulate the system for a desired outcome
- game theorist
- A mathematician whose work is in game theory
- game theorists
- plural form of game theorist
- game theory
- A branch of applied mathematics that studies strategic situations in which individuals or organisations choose various actions in an attempt to maximize their returns
- game with a purpose
- A computer game that serves some purpose for the people setting up the game by harnessing human abilities in an entertaining setting
- game-bird
- Attributive form of game bird
game-bird ammo.
- game-changing
- Critical and having the potential to alter the overall outcome
Our plan to transition from products to solutions is a game-changing moment for our company.
- game-of-chance
- Attributive form of game of chance
game-of-chance mark.
- game-point
- Attributive form of game point
game-point situation.
- game-theoretical
- Of, relating to or defined in terms of game theory
- game plan
- An overall approach to achieve a major objective
- game boy
- n. Nintendo Corporation’s popular battery-powered, portable handheld gaming system first introduced in 1990 and updated frequently. Games are supplied on cartridges. The latest Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, features a 32-bit ARM CPU with embedded memory and a 2.9-inch TFT reflective screen with 240x160 resolution
- game changer
- 1. A person who is a visionary.2. A company that alters its business strategy and conceives an entirely new business plan. This type of company switches up and forms a new business strategy in order to compete directly or indirectly with competitors. A game changer changes the way that something is done, thought about or made
- game fish
- (plural same) a fish caught by anglers for sport, especially (in fresh water) salmon and trout and (in the sea) billfishes, sharks, bass, and mackerel. Compare with coarse fish
- game park
- A large area of land that is designed for wild animals to live in safely
- game seven
- (Oyunlar) A game seven is the final game of a best of seven series. This game can occur in the postseasons for Major League Baseball (League Championship Series and World Series), the National Basketball Association (all rounds of the NBA Playoffs), and the National Hockey League (all rounds of the Stanley Cup playoffs)
- Game Boy
- portable electronic apparatus for playing cartridge games made by Nintendo
- game bag
- hunter's pouch, hunter's bag
- game bird
- wild bird hunted for food or sport
- game bird
- any bird (as grouse or pheasant) that is hunted for sport
- game bird
- Game birds are birds which are shot for food or for sport. A bird, such as a pheasant or grouse, that is widely hunted for sport
- game equipment
- equipment or apparatus used in playing a game
- game fish
- Species like trout, salmon, or bass, caught for sport Many of them show more sensitivity to environmental change than "rough" fish
- game fish
- (includes hybrids or subspecies of fish on this list)
- game fish
- Species like trout, salmon, or bass, caught for sport Many of them show more sensitivity to environmental change than "rough" fish Source: US EPA
- game fish
- Types of fish that are more inclined to strike an artificial fly Bass and trout are considered game fish
- game fish
- any fish providing sport for the angler
- game fish
- All fish species except endangered and threatened species This includes trout, char, grayling, salmon, muskellunge hybrids, carp, bullhead, wiper, saugeye, smelt, splake, black bass, walleye, northern pike, bass, crappie, sunfish, whitefish, catfish, drum, shad, perch, sucker, topminnow or minnow
- game fish
- Fish species caught for sport, such as trout, salmon, or bass
- game fish
- Species of fish caught for sport, such as trout or bass Many of these species show more sensitivity to environmental changes than so-called rough fish
- game for anything
- ready for anything
- game fowl
- any of several breeds reared for cock-fighting
- game fowl
- A handsome breed of the common fowl, remarkable for the great courage and pugnacity of the males
- game law
- A regulation intended for the management or conservation of game animals
- game law
- a regulation intended to manage or preserve game animals
- game laws
- hunting regulations, restrictions on hunting enacted for the preservation of certain animals
- game license
- permit to hunt animals
- game misconduct
- (ice hockey) a penalty that suspends a player for the remainder of a game (but allows the team to send in a substitute for the suspended player)
- game of cards
- game played with a deck of cards (i.e. poker, gin, etc.)
- game of chance
- A game, usually played for money or stakes, in which the winner is determined by a chance event, as by drawing numbers or throwing dice
- game of chance
- a game that involves gambling
- game of kings
- game of chess
- game of tennis
- game in which players in a marked area hit a ball back and forth with rackets over a net
- game of the week
- highlight game shown each week, special game that is broadcast each week
- game pad
- {i} type of game controller used to play video games, joypad, device for computer games that has buttons to control images on the screen
- game park
- A game park is a large area of land, especially in Africa, where wild animals can live safely. = game reserve. a game reserve
- game plan
- In sport, a team's game plan is their plan for winning a match. Leeds kept quiet, stuck to their game plan and quietly racked up the points
- game plan
- (sports) a plan for achieving an objective in some sport (figurative) a carefully thought out strategy for achieving an objective in war or politics or business or personal affairs; "newscasters speculated about the President's game plan for an invasion
- game plan
- Someone's game plan is the actions they intend to take and the policies they intend to adopt in order to achieve a particular thing. If he has a game plan for winning the deal, only he understands it He is unlikely to alter his game plan. a plan for achieving success, especially in business or sports
- game plan
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- game plan
- n the team's offensive and defensive emphases for a particular opponent, usually organized by rotation
- game plan
- (figurative) a carefully thought out strategy for achieving an objective in war or politics or business or personal affairs; "newscasters speculated about the President's game plan for an invasion"
- game plan
- n the team's offensive and defensive emphases for a particular opponent, usually organized by rotation 整体战术布置和计划。
- game plan
- (sports) a plan for achieving an objective in some sport
- game point
- the situation in a game such as tennis in which one player will win the game if they win the next point match point
- game port
- port which allows connection of a computer joystick
- game reserve
- A game reserve is a large area of land, especially in Africa, where wild animals can live safely. = game park. 'game pre.serve a large area of land that is designed for wild animals to live in safely
- game room
- A recreation room, especially a room used for table games, such as pool or table tennis
- game season
- time of year in which certain ball games are played
- game show
- a television or radio program in which contestants compete for awards
- game show
- Game shows are television programmes on which people play games in order to win prizes. Being a good game-show host means getting to know your contestants. A television show in which contestants compete for prizes by playing games of knowledge or chance. a television programme in which people play games or answer questions to win prizes. or quiz show Radio or television show designed to test the knowledge, luck, or skill of contestants or experts. Among the shows popular on U.S. radio were Dr. I.Q. (1939-49), Information, Please (1938-48), and The Quiz Kids (1940-53). The genre was adopted by television and cash awards were increased, so that radio's $64 Question became television's $64,000 Question. In the mid-1950s, to increase their shows' popularity, some producers began feeding answers to contestants who had been chosen to win. An accusation of unfair practices on Twenty-one (1958) led to a government investigation and the quick demise of the big-money shows. The game show later regained popularity when it was revived in formats with lower stakes and easier questions, as on Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune. At the turn of the 21st century, game shows such as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire boasted large cash prizes and gained popularity in prime time, and reality shows like Survivor adopted aspects of the game show genre
- game show
- entertainment show on television in which contestants play games and win prizes
- game theory
- A field of study that bridges mathematics, statistics, economics, and psychology It is used to study economic behavior, and to model conflict between nations, for example, "nuclear stalemate" during the Cold War
- game theory
- The study of decision problems in competitive situations Game theory is the procedure for analyzing and deriving rules for making decisions when two or more people or organizations are competing for some objective
- game theory
- (economics) a theory of competition stated in terms of gains and losses among opposing players
- game theory
- In general, a (mathematical) game can be played by one player, such as a puzzle, but its main connection with mathematical programming is when there are at least two players, and they are in conflict Each player chooses a strategy that maximizes his payoff When there are exactly two players and one player's loss is the other's gain, the game is called zero sum In this case, a payoff matrix, A, is given where Aij is the payoff to player 1, and the loss to player 2, when player 1 uses strategy i and player 2 uses strategy j In this representation each row of A corresponds to a strategy of player 1, and each column corresponds to a strategy of player 2 If A is m × n, this means player 1 has m strategies, and player 2 has n strategies Here is an example of a 2 × 3 payoff matrix
- game theory
- A method of analysing strategic behaviour
- game theory
- a branch of applied mathematics with many uses in economics, including the analysis of the interaction of firms that take each others actions into account (chapter 11)
- game theory
- The study of decision making in situations where strategic interaction (moves and countermoves) occurs between rivals
- game theory
- The study of interactions between intelligent agents, concentrating on whether outcomes are zero, positive or negative sum
- game theory
- (l) The study of situations involving competing interests, modeled in terms of the strategies, probabilities, actions, gains, and losses of opposing players in a game See also management game; war game (2) The study of games to determine the probability of winning, given various strategies
- game theory
- Structured methods of bargaining with and between customers, suppliers and others, both inside and outside the organisation
- game theory
- The study of the ways in which player's preferences and strategic interactions among rational players produces game outcomes, with emphasis on outcomes that were not intended by any of the players
- game theory
- theory designed to understand strategic choices, that is, to understand how people or organizations behave when they expect their actions to influence the behavior of others
- game theory
- An approach to analyzing oligopoly behavior that presents a firm's and its rival's alternative strategies and consequent outcomes
- game theory
- A mathematical method of decision-making in which a competitive situation is analyzed to determine the optimal course of action for an interested party, often used in political, economic, and military planning. Also called theory of games. Branch of applied mathematics devised to analyze certain situations in which there is an interplay between parties that may have similar, opposed, or mixed interests. Game theory was originally developed by John von Neumann and Oscar Morgenstern in their book The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (1944). In a typical game, or competition with fixed rules, "players" try to outsmart one another by anticipating the others' decisions, or moves. A solution to a game prescribes the optimal strategy or strategies for each player and predicts the average, or expected, outcome. Until a highly contrived counterexample was devised in 1967, it was thought that every contest had at least one solution. See also decision theory; prisoner's dilemma
- game warden
- official who enforces hunting regulations
- game warden
- a person employed to take care of game and wildlife
- game warden
- An official in charge of managing game animals or wildlife, especially by the enforcement of game laws. someone whose job is to look after wild animals in a game reserve
- gary's game
- (Oyunlar) Oh Hell (also known as Up the River, Hell Yeah!, Stinky Fingers, Get Fred, Gary's Game, Diminishing Bridge, Shit On Your Neighbor, Kari's Lane, German Bridge in Hong Kong, and many variations of "Oh Hell" with euphemisms and other swearwords) is a trick-taking card game in which the object is to take exactly the number of tricks bid, unlike contract bridge and spades, where taking more tricks than bid is a loss. Its first appearance dates to the early 1930s and is sometimes credited to Geoffrey Mott-Smith
- A game
- One's best effort
Joe brought his A game to the match.
- Mazur game
- A topological game invented by the Polish mathematician Mazur in order to illustrate the difference between sets of the first category and second category
- Murphy game
- Any of several confidence tricks in which something worthless is substituted for something of value, often in a sealed envelope
- Open Game
- A type of chess opening, in which both White and Black move their king's pawn to the fourth rank with their first move
- Scotch Game
- A common Open Game in chess, in which White's third move is queen's pawn to the forth rank
- Semi-Open Game
- A type of chess opening, in which White moves their king's pawn to the fourth rank with their first move and Black replies by any move asymmetrical to White's
- TV game
- An early type of video game, the predecessor of modern games consoles, consisting of a unit with a built-in controller that plugged into a television set
- The Game
- A mind game where the objective is to avoid thinking about "The Game", and by thinking about it one loses, and subsequently has to announce one's loss to the world in order to make them lose
You just lost The Game.
- adventure game
- A computer or video game of the genre characterized by investigation, exploration, puzzle-solving, interaction with game characters, and a focus on narrative rather than reflex-based challenges
- ahead of the game
- Having completed a task before it is due; ready, prepared, or anticipating
If you start work on the new assignment now, you'll be ahead of the game for when the teacher sets it officially.
- arcade game
- A coin-operated video game or amusement device
- away game
- An athletic contest played in the opposing team's geographic area
- ball game
- A specific contest or match between teams playing such a game
George and Harriet went to the stadium to see the ball game.
- ball game
- Any game played with a ball
Basketball, cricket, and football are three kinds of ball game.
- beautiful game
- Nickname for football (soccer)
After watching Saturday's final, don't you agree that soccer is still the beautiful game that Pelé called it?.
- black game
- the black grouse
- blame game
- A situation in which people attempt to blame others rather than trying to resolve a problem
- blow this for a game of soldiers
- Expressing exasperation or impatience with a situation
- board game
- Any of many games of strategy or chance played on a specially designed board; often involves two or more opponents moving pieces and using dice or cards
- card game
- Any of very many games played with playing cards
- cash game
- A game where the chips directly represent money and players are free to leave at any time, in contrast to a poker tournament
- casual game
- A video game targeting casual, irregular gamers, typically having few rules to learn and a low initial level of difficulty
- cat's game
- A tie game
- closed game
- A chess game in which each side moves its queen's pawn two spaces as the first move
- computer game
- An electronic game, especially a game played using a general purpose computer (as opposed to a game console)
- con game
- A swindle in which the mark, or victim, is defrauded after his or her trust has been won
- confidence game
- A swindle in which the mark, or victim, is defrauded after his or her trust has been won
- cooperative game
- Informally, a game formalized using a function that assigns to each coalition of players a real number representing the payoff that the coalition can gain if it is formed, without specifying how the outcome is divided among the participants of the coalition; upon the execution of the game, each player can be a member of at most one coalition
- counting-out game
- A children's rhyme used to select a person from a group, more or less at random
- drinking game
- A game (often a logic or memory game) which involves the drinking of alcohol, usually as a penalty for making mistakes, as the intoxication makes the game harder to play
- electronic game
- A game played on an electronic device
- electronic-game
- Attributive form of electronic game
electronic-game player.
- extensive form game
- Informally, a representation of a game as a tree of decision nodes, with the game beginning at a unique initial node, and flowing through the tree along a path determined by the players until a terminal node is reached, where play ends and payoffs are assigned to all players; each non-terminal node belongs to a player; that player chooses among the possible moves at that node, each possible move is an edge leading from that node to another node
- fair game
- Actions permissible by the rules
The referee ruled the unprecedented play fair game.
- fair game
- An goal or object that may legitimately be sought
After the middle sister's call from a friend's house, her slice of cake was fair game.
- fair game
- : a game that is fair, that does not involve cheating, etc
- fighting game
- A video game genre based around interpersonal combat often in a tournament setting, in which characters fight until their HP is depleted or the round timer expires
- gameness
- The quality of being game; bravery, courage or pluck