What's the difference between footy and game?

Footy


Definition:

  • (a.) Having foots, or settlings; as, footy oil, molasses, etc.
  • (a.) Poor; mean.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If you are not booing for racist grounds, stop, because it never used to be part of your day at the footy.
  • (2) And it continues at footy games, BBQs, cricket matches, school, college, university, at work, the pub; we are all in a position to make a positive influence when we see unacceptable behaviour or attitudes,” he said.
  • (3) Australia to change law to allow strikes on more Isis combatants Read more “People need to be assured that our agencies have the capability to protect us and we take appropriate measures to make sure any footy final or any place where a lot of people are gathering do have appropriate protections,” he told the Nine Network on Wednesday.
  • (4) Footy news site bold.dk managed to get a hold of the Greek’s agent, who in disbelief asked if this was supposed to be a joke: “Is this a joke?
  • (5) On Wednesday, the publisher of the Fifa series of footie sims announced that it had extended its “official sports technology” partnership with the Premiership until 2019.
  • (6) "It is a remarkable but incontrovertible matter of historical fact that - in my thirty years or so of watching international footie tournaments - no team I have supported has EVER won a penalty shoot-out," writes Richard Hands of Mali, who I'm guessing isn't rooting for Uruguay to make it three.
  • (7) Strachan told BBC Radio 5 live: "People have problems in footy where you have an indication that something is wrong, but this one is right out of the blue.
  • (8) We all have a circle of influence around us, whether it’s a whole organisation, the local footy club, or simply the family around the dinner table.
  • (9) Which makes it all very embarrassing for Sky, which has spent a fortune trying to move away from its footie fan, taxi-driver image in the past few years.
  • (10) I would say there’s definitely a racist element to it,” Buckley told Fox Footy.
  • (11) While Logan might represent a polar extreme of full-blown footie Anglophilia, scores of other American fans fervently support EPL teams without committing to such dramatic extremes.
  • (12) While the stereotype is that gay men can’t and don’t play footy, the opposite perception is that only lesbians play sport.
  • (13) Take Si Evans for example: Si Evans (@siphev) @KidWeil RSL looking good...first time in 26 years of watching footy I've missed a goal.
  • (14) Shorten said Dutton’s defence that the joke was made as part of a private conversation were “not good enough,” adding, “he’s a minister, he’s a cabinet minister, he’s not some bloke on the outer at the footy, he’s a cabinet minister of the Australian government”.
  • (15) The Palmer United party senator said on Tuesday that Abbott and Shorten were acting like “hormone-affected schoolboys trying to out-macho each other on the footy field”.
  • (16) Speaking to Fox Footy post-match Goodes denied there was anything untoward going on between himself and the Blues’ supporter group.
  • (17) Prior’s team has gone to the usual lengths to ensure that you really feel part of the summer’s footy frenzy, with the game packing in all 203 teams from the qualifying stages, made up of 7,469 players – all of whom have their names in the game.
  • (18) The word from Gamescom is that Konami’s series is heading toward a new zenith, not just for the faithful acolytes but for footie simulation fans in general.
  • (19) I don’t think it is anything to do with the way he plays his footy.” I can tell you how Adam Goodes feels.
  • (20) It’s a bit of a shock, he’s a champion of this footy club,” said Swans defender Rhyce Shaw, who had previously announced he was retiring at the end of the season.

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.

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