(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.
Minor
Definition:
(a.) Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.
(a.) Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third.
(n.) A person of either sex who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded; an infant; in England and the United States, one under twenty-one years of age.
(n.) The minor term, that is, the subject of the conclusion; also, the minor premise, that is, that premise which contains the minor term; in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. It is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness.
(n.) A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.
Example Sentences:
(1) The significance of minor increases in the serum creatinine level must be recognized, so that modifications of drug therapy can be made and correction of possibly life-threatening electrolyte imbalances can be undertaken.
(2) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
(3) Electronmicroscopical investigations have revealed that, under normal conditions, a minor vesicular transfer of intravenously injected peroxidase occurs across the endothelium in segments of arterioles, capillaries and venules, especially in arterioles with a diameter about 15-30 mu.
(4) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
(5) These sequences are also conserved in the same arrangement in minor sequence classes of minicircles from this strain.
(6) 2,3-Dihydroxybenzamide had previously been detected only as a minor metabolite of salicylamide by paper chromatography.
(7) The screening of blood products for HTLV-1 is of minor importance.
(8) Ligaments played a very minor role in the lifts studied.
(9) Although chronologic age may not be a good predictor of pregnancy outcome, adolescents remain a high-risk group due to factors which are more common among them such as biologic immaturity, inadequate prenatal care, poverty, minority status, and low prepregnancy weight, and because factors associated with an early adolescent pregnancy, such as low gynecologic age, may continue to influence the outcome of subsequent pregnancies.
(10) Our study suggests that a major part of the renal antimineralocorticoid activity of spironolactone may be attributable to minor sulfur-containing metabolites or their precursors having a high renal clearance that affords access to their site of activity via the renal tubular fluid.
(11) Overt hemorrhage, major or minor, was assessed clinically.
(12) Quality evaluations by usual human spermiogram methods were applicable with only minor modifications to the procedures.
(13) These results might help to explain why only a minority of individuals with a susceptible HLA type develop uveitis, as well as the variable incidence of disease in HLA-identical populations of different ethnic backgrounds.
(14) Normal rat soleus myosin has a major slow and a minor fast component due to two populations of muscle fibers.
(15) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
(16) By applying this method to rat cardiac whole muscle, high-molecular weight proteins, such as myosin heavy chains, are focused on the first-dimensional gels and, in addition, minor components are resolved on the second-dimensional gels, without loss during equilibration with detergent.
(17) Amid all of the worry about her health, the difficult decisions around the surgery, and how to explain everything to the children, the practicalities of postponing the holiday was a relatively minor consideration.
(18) A relation between ejection fraction (EF) and the echo minor dimension measurements in end diastole and end systole was formulated, which permitted estimation of the EF from the echo measurements.
(19) Isometric exercise induces a significant shortening of both intervals although minor for QT so that the ratio significantly increases in comparison to baseline (p less than .001).
(20) The majority of the patients were Chinese (78.0%), followed by Malays (11.5%), Indians (8.1%) and other minority races (2.4%).