(n.) A mode of opening the game, in which a pawn is sacrificed to gain an attacking position.
Example Sentences:
(1) Channing Tatum will play the superhero Gambit in a forthcoming spin-off movie from the X-Men series, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
(2) The gambit worked, and Miami made four straight NBA Finals appearances, winning championships in 2012 and 2013, James taking Finals MVP honors both times.
(3) By his own admission, Paul’s latest gambit will be short-lived.
(4) Russia's Syria gambit could be a game changer – but only if it hastens transition Read more “You all know well that in the territory of Syria and Iraq … a number of countries are carrying out bombing strikes, including the United States,” said Ivanov.
(5) We're dandy [Small Talk is dandy largely because he feels he has thought up an incredibly original and amusing opening gambit].
(6) Putin’s military gambit in Syria is the inverse of Obama’s.
(7) The plan will be regarded as an opening gambit from the broadcasters, with the main political parties also talking to other media organisations about potential leaders’ debate formats.
(8) His appeal to sectarianism as an electoral gambit morphed into something more dangerous.
(9) Six criticisms of the classification recently published (The Sicilian Gambit) are discussed in detail.
(10) With global markets gyrating, doubt hanging over the rescue deal and Greeks denouncing the gambit as a guarantee of their crisis-hit country achieving bankruptcy and default, Papandreou might be forgiven for feeling he has made a mistake.
(11) The Osborne-Darling gambit assumed that money given to banks was being "pumped into the economy" (as the BBC constantly put it) and would trickle down into recovery.
(12) Did you read today that France have closed the refugee camps?” was one chap’s gambit to me.
(13) They see the law as a gambit to shut clinics down, and in the course of this lawsuit, they have mustered some proof.
(14) People familiar with the US treasury department playbook, and the financial weaknesses of the Russian economy, say there are far more aggressive and dangerous gambits available as Washington seeks to retaliate against Moscow for its two-month assault on eastern Ukraine .
(15) "And he's got a really good heart … I think he'll be great for Gambit."
(16) With 10 minutes left Hamid had to make the save of the game, blocking Saborio's goal bound shot at point blank range after the ball had been nudged to the striker on the edge of the six yard box, then Kreis made his final gambit, bringing off Salcedo for Devon Sandoval, the team's leading scorer in the competition.
(17) Adass’s own pre-election gambit, setting out the sector’s stall and warning that it faces “make or break” choices in the next parliament, was an effective intervention of a kind that the association has in the past been reluctant to make lest it be seen to be political.
(18) It is feared that Britain’s opening gambit will fall short of the status quo – with conditions attached.
(19) It exists purely as a broadbrush gambit in the attritional process of freaking out his closest rivals: we picture Arsène Wenger coughing awkwardly on the Emirates bench and going for a bit of a walk along the touchline, Jose Mourinho discreetly wafting his coat-tails and muttering about last night's seafood risotto.
(20) But environmentalists believe that as a low opening gambit, it created a fait accompli by not pushing the politicians to be more ambitious.
Gamut
Definition:
(n.) The scale.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is rapidly followed by a gamut of changes leading to demyelination.
(2) There is serious fun to be had browsing its huge bottled beer menu, which runs the gamut of new wave UK breweries, including Kernel, Wild Beer, Hardknott, Camden, and their US inspirations, such as Left Hand and Magic Hat.
(3) That is true not only of specific issues but also of perceptions as to whether the party is fit for government across the whole gamut of policy.
(4) It should be included in the gamut of discordant hepatic uptake of Tc-99m IDA and Tc-99m colloid.
(5) English readers get few opportunities to read a literature that here in Frankfurt is being shown to run the gamut from crime fiction via feminist critique to comic writing and discussions of epic poetry.
(6) Across eight cask pumps, seven keg lines and three hand-pulled ciders, the Rook runs the gamut from exotic European imports (Opat's self-explanatory orange and mandarin Czech pils) to beers from lesser-spotted UK micros, such as Grafters and Jurassic Brewhouse.
(7) The gamut of neurological symptoms observed in Lyme disease is outlined on the basis of 45 case histories.
(8) He is not ready to open up publicly about the bereavement and the gamut of emotions that he has run, but he does reflect on the work ethic that has guided him and been in place from the outset.
(9) The discovery of HARGRAVES cells is the only certain biological sign to confirm systemic lupus, the existence of antinuclear antibodies or antinuclear factors merely serving as a guide to the collecting of a whole gamut of clinical and biological symptoms.
(10) It has been found that a distinctly pronounced and complicated gamut of pH fluctuations over the entire physiological range of values (i.e.
(11) From particle physics to predictive search and aggregated social media sentiments, we reap its benefits across a broadening gamut of fields.
(12) The procedure for developing a Gamut is discussed, ant its use as a tool for instructing residents in nuclear medicine is described.
(13) Sample Gamuts are presented and the Gamut approach to scintigram differential diagnosis is described.
(14) In Seoul itself, a recent festival showcased a whole gamut of different dance acts performing Gangnam Style .
(15) Thus, meaning, being open to any possible combinatory of transformations, provides the widest gamut of possibilities to produce sense-and change-in their widest acception.
(16) On the whole, the present study demonstrated a gamut of immunological reactivity in paracoccidioidomycosis.
(17) It cannot be produced by means of the description of its methods and techniques, since it includes a wide gamut of them, ranging from systematic desensitization to assertive training and aversive conditioning.
(18) For that purpose, we studied 54 commonly epithelial malignancies using immunohistochemistry (IHC) with a panel of seven frequently used MAb recognizing a gamut of membrane and cytoplasmic antigens (AE-1, CAM 5.2, B72.3, MC10, anti-carcinoembryonic antigen (anti-CEA), epithelial membrane antigen (EMA), and human milk fat globule (HMFG)).
(19) The MCA currently represents the full gamut of the industry – from the more responsible extractives at one end of the spectrum to the fossil fuel mining reef bleachers at the other.
(20) Our patient displayed the full gamut of nodular panniculitis, polyarthritis, fever, eosinophilia, hyperlipasemia, lytic bones lesions, and marrow fat necrosis.