(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.
Piece
Definition:
(n.) A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piece of sugar; to break in pieces.
(n.) A definite portion or quantity, as of goods or work; as, a piece of broadcloth; a piece of wall paper.
(n.) Any one thing conceived of as apart from other things of the same kind; an individual article; a distinct single effort of a series; a definite performance
(n.) A literary or artistic composition; as, a piece of poetry, music, or statuary.
(n.) A musket, gun, or cannon; as, a battery of six pieces; a following piece.
(n.) A coin; as, a sixpenny piece; -- formerly applied specifically to an English gold coin worth 22 shillings.
(n.) A fact; an item; as, a piece of news; a piece of knowledge.
(n.) An individual; -- applied to a person as being of a certain nature or quality; often, but not always, used slightingly or in contempt.
(n.) One of the superior men, distinguished from a pawn.
(n.) A castle; a fortified building.
(v. t.) To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; as, to piece a garment; -- often with out.
(v. t.) To unite; to join; to combine.
(v. i.) To unite by a coalescence of parts; to fit together; to join.
Example Sentences:
(1) Small pieces of anterior and posterior quail wing-bud mesoderm (HH stages 21-23) were placed in in vitro culture for up to 3 days.
(2) The patient, a 12 year-old boy, showed a soft white yellowish mycotic excrescence with clear borders which had followed the introduction of a small piece of straw into the cornea.
(3) That piece was placed on the slide and embedded with a mixture of agar and antiserum.
(4) Originally from Pyongyang, the tour guide explains that a “merited artist” from Mansudae, North Korea’s biggest art studio in Pyongyang, was responsible for the main piece, but that it took 63 artists almost two years to complete.
(5) Each daughter merozoite receives a branch or piece of the parent organelle.
(6) Heads you 'own it' Ian Read, the Scottish-born accountant who runs the biggest drug firm in the US carries in his pocket a special gold coin, about the size and weight of a £2 piece.
(7) A modification of a previously described curved ruler, the current model has a hinge for greater ease of maneuverability and a "T" piece on one end to facilitate measurement and marking of both poles of the muscle without repositioning the ruler.
(8) DNA sequence analysis of a 3.8-kb genomic piece allowed identification of (i) an open reading frame (ORF) with striking homology to the previously identified D. melanogaster ORF and (ii) conserved sequence elements of possible regulatory relevance within and flanking the second intron.
(9) I could just banish the app from my phone forever, but deleting a piece of smart tech that makes my life easier doesn’t feel very satisfying.
(10) Dean Baquet, the managing editor in question, does admit in the piece that walking out was not perhaps the best thing for a senior editor like him to do.
(11) Criminal court charges leave me no choice but to resign as a magistrate Read more “This is a terrible piece of legislation introduced through the back door,” he wrote.
(12) The voltage trace is then analysed with a piece of transparent paper, on which lines corresponding to solutions of the diffusion equation convert the time axis of the voltage trace into a concentration axis.
(13) Sculthorpe’s catalogue consists of more than 350 pieces ranging from solos to orchestral works and opera.
(14) Piccoli followed that up with an opinion piece for Fairfax Media on Thursday in which said the SES model never applied to public schools and was not properly targeted to student needs.
(15) I still find that trying to weave together into a visual narrative and cutting together two pieces of a film – two different images.
(16) Each of the mice received 3 pieces of explants on the s.c. space in both of their flanks.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest No shake: Donald Trump snubs Angela Merkel during photo op The piece of pantomime was in stark contrast to the visit of Theresa May in January.
(18) During each test period one group chewed a combination of one piece sorbitol and one piece sucrose flavored gum five times per day, the second group correspondingly chewed xylitol and sucrose flavored gum, while the third group served as a no hygiene control group.
(19) Pieces of spleen of both groups were fixed in formalin and embedded in paraffin.
(20) When Hayley Cropper swallows poison on Coronation Street on Monday night, taking her own life to escape inoperable pancreatic cancer, with her beloved husband, Roy, in pieces at her bedside, it will be the end of a character who, thanks to Hesmondhalgh's performance, has captivated and challenged British TV viewers for 16 years.