What's the difference between dribble and game?

Dribble


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves.
  • (v. i.) To slaver, as a child or an idiot; to drivel.
  • (v. i.) To fall weakly and slowly.
  • (v. t.) To let fall in drops.
  • (n.) A drizzling shower; a falling or leaking in drops.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After two placings of shares with institutional investors which began two years ago, the government has been selling shares by “dribbling” them into the market.
  • (2) Villas-Boas paid £15m to bring the Belgian from Fulham and the signs are that he could prove a bargain, as Dembélé is emerging as one of the most complete midfielders in the Premier League, boasting strength, tenacity, creative passing, tricky dribbling and dangerous shooting.
  • (3) At one point Liverpool's young, raw full-back could be seen dribbling round Juan Mata.
  • (4) Alexander says the information is being "dribbled out" in a way that he believes is intended to inflict "maximum harm": I believe it's being done in a way that would cause maximum harm.
  • (5) A male adolescent presented with perineal dribbling during voiding.
  • (6) It has emerged, however, from a document that circulated among journalists and academics in South Africa, and which finally dribbled into print in 2005, that Mandela condoned his wife's statement.
  • (7) His fourth goal was a header from a cross by Jesé, who scored the team’s sixth a minute later after a dribble through the defence and a shot that went in at the base of the post.
  • (8) This scenario seems a world away from the days when his parents, Dave and Sonia Johnson, realised their five-year-old son manipulated the mini-football he continually dribbled around their home in Easington, County Durham, with quite extraordinary dexterity.
  • (9) Yet the veteran’s touch betrayed weary limbs, forcing him wide, with his shot dribbling beyond the far post and behind.
  • (10) Stoke kept Sánchez mostly subdued until the 57th minute, when the South American embarked on a dribble of which Diego Maradona would have been proud.
  • (11) at times they have carved Chelsea open with some cracking short dribbles and quick unpredictable movement, but sadly have picked up a couple of their least desirable traits."
  • (12) The centre-half had collected a throw-in on 15 minutes and attempted a blind pass infield, only to dribble the ball straight to a rampaging Costa.
  • (13) Following dilatation, bladder emptying into condom catheters was achieved in all patients without dribbling incontinence.
  • (14) I’ll make sure they stay interested.” Trump’s post-convention tribulations just prompted Time magazine to publish a stylised image of his head dribbling like hot wax beside a single word headline: “ Meltdown ”.
  • (15) Richards’s association with City goes back to the age of 14, when he arrived for a trial from Oldham Athletic and remembers being blown away by Shaleum Logan “playing up front, dribbling around everyone, and I was thinking: ’Oh my God, he’s unbelievable.’ I wasn’t used to the pace of the game.
  • (16) He was teed up by Gervinho, who had put the fear into Colombia with another dribble, but Kalou scuffed straight at Ospina from 18 yards.
  • (17) 8.22pm GMT 36 min: Kagawa dinks and dribbles down the right and into the area.
  • (18) The most frequent symptoms were poor stream (in 70%), frequency (50%) and dribbling (37%), while 30 % had nocturia, and 20% urgency, dysuria or perineal pain during voiding.
  • (19) They can’t look straight at me – they’re dribbling wrecks.” Rob was killed 20 years ago, but Kilgour didn’t begin to process his death until he started getting arrested repeatedly for violent assault.
  • (20) Reformers finally have the jolt in the arm they needed to prevent the positive impact of Snowden’s revelations dribbling away.

Game


Definition:

  • (n.) Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.
  • (v. i.) Sport of any kind; jest, frolic.
  • (v. i.) A contest, physical or mental, according to certain rules, for amusement, recreation, or for winning a stake; as, a game of chance; games of skill; field games, etc.
  • (v. i.) The use or practice of such a game; a single match at play; a single contest; as, a game at cards.
  • (v. i.) 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.
  • (v. i.) In some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest.
  • (v. i.) A scheme or art employed in the pursuit of an object or purpose; method of procedure; projected line of operations; plan; project.
  • (v. i.) Animals pursued and taken by sportsmen; wild meats designed for, or served at, table.
  • (a.) Having a resolute, unyielding spirit, like the gamecock; ready to fight to the last; plucky.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to such animals as are hunted for game, or to the act or practice of hunting.
  • (n.) To rejoice; to be pleased; -- often used, in Old English, impersonally with dative.
  • (n.) To play at any sport or diversion.
  • (n.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Recent data collected by the Games Outcomes Project and shared on the website Gamasutra backs up the view that crunch compounds these problems rather than solving them.
  • (2) For viewers in the US, you get the worst possible in-game managerial interview in Mike Matheny, one that's so bad, it's actually great!
  • (3) Video games specialist Game was teetering on the brink of collapse on Friday after a rescue deal put forward by private equity firm OpCapita appeared to have been given the cold shoulder by lenders who are owed more than £100m.
  • (4) Robben said: "We've got that match, the Fifa Club World Cup, all those games to look forward to.
  • (5) I think he had been saying all season that with three or four games to go he will tell us where we are.
  • (6) Well I think [that’s] because we’ve made changes in the game,” said Goodell.
  • (7) When you have been out for a month you need to prepare properly before you come back.” Pellegrini will make his own assessment of Kompany’s fitness before deciding whether to play him in the Bournemouth game, which he is careful to stress may not be the foregone conclusion the league table might suggest.
  • (8) There was also acknowledgement for two long-term servants to the men’s game who will both leave the Premier League for Major League Soccer this summer.
  • (9) I just know that in that moment he’s not in condition to carry on in the game.
  • (10) And perhaps it’s this longevity that accounts for her popularity: a single tweet from Williams (who has 750,000 followers) about the series will prompt a Game Of Thrones news story.
  • (11) The purposes of this study were to locate games and simulations available for nursing education, to categorize these materials to make them more accessible for nurse educators, and to determine how nursing's use of instructional games might be enhanced.
  • (12) The Sports Network broadcasts live NHL, Nascar, golf and horse racing – having also recently purchased the rights for Formula One – and will show 154 of the 196 games that NBC will cover.
  • (13) He missed the start of the season while rehabbing from last season's ankle injury, played exactly six games with the Los Angeles Lakers before getting hurt again and even if he's healthy he may still sit the game out .
  • (14) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
  • (15) You wanted a close game late, this is a close game late.
  • (16) Martin O’Neill spoke of his satisfaction at the Republic of Ireland’s score draw in the first leg of their Euro 2016 play-off against Bosnia-Herzegovina – and of his relief that the match was not abandoned despite the dense fog that descended in the second half and threatened to turn the game into a farce.
  • (17) I didn’t come here to play games – I wrote to all my friends and family because I might not see them again,” he told Al-Aan.
  • (18) This is just another game in the park to him, isn’t it?
  • (19) In fact, the lowest-rated game of last year's World Series between the Giants and the Tigers edged out the opening round of the draft by only 2.4 million viewers.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Looking on as his Bolton side take on Besiktas during their Uefa Cup group game in Istanbul, Turkey.