What's the difference between gambling and garbling?
Gambling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gamble
Example Sentences:
(1) Now Trump is taking the biggest gamble of his short political career.
(2) It's not a great stretch to see parallels between the movie's set-up and the film industry in 2012: disposable teens are manipulated into behaving in certain ways, before being degraded and dispatched, all the while being remotely observed by middle-aged men, gambling on their fates.
(3) The causes of variation need to be investigated to ensure care is never a gamble,” added McNamara.
(4) So it was with cruelty – the same cruelty seen in the enactment of the Muslim travel ban and the gamble with the healthcare of 24 million people – that Trump signed an executive order to begin construction immediately .
(5) The City is rife with gambling addicts whose habits contribute to a risk-prone culture of the sort which helped Kweku Adoboli lose UBS £1.5bn, according to one London trader.
(6) But that strategy is also a gamble for environmental groups.
(7) Dangerfield then starred in Easy Money (1983), in which he is a working-class slob who could receive $10m from his late mother-in-law's estate if he gives up his vices, including smoking, drinking and gambling.
(8) The court heard how all of these areas and more are gambled on in the unregulated Asian markets, in so-called "fancy bets".
(9) The main findings were that, as measured on the ARCI, "simulated winning at gambling" produced a euphoria similar to the euphoria induced by the psychoactive drugs of abuse, particularly psychomotor stimulants; secondly, that as a group, the pathological gamblers, demonstrated elevated psychopathy scale scores similar to psychopathy scores found among persons with histories of drug dependence.
(10) It may prove an inspired gamble that energises the Tory base with a simple offer that cuts straight through to the ballot box.
(11) Steve Ballmer started at Microsoft in 1980, arriving from Procter & Gamble to become Bill Gates' first business manager.
(12) But while the betting industry claims it would like to encourage “responsible gambling”, these semantics imply that those who become addicted to their products are entirely to blame, and that their products are not.
(13) In addition Ofcom has reclassified all transactional gambling shows on TV as teleshopping.
(14) Kweku Adoboli repeatedly broken down in tears on Friday as the former UBS "rogue trader" defended himself against charges that he gambled away £1.5bn of his Swiss bank's money.
(15) Walter Cannon with his concept of homeostasis and Henderson, Gamble, Peters and Van Slyke with their definition of the chemical anatomy of the organic fluids and their quantitative analysis, opened the way to Francis Moore's concept of surgery and trauma as metabolic problems.
(16) The businesses include corporations such as Pepsi, Ikea, Accenture, Burberry, Procter & Gamble, Heinz, JP Morgan and FedEx.
(17) The bookmaker said it considered the sector to be a "legitimate betting market" that proved one of its most popular non-sports gambling opportunities for the month of September.
(18) A 1981 report by a New Jersey regulator also shows a $7.5m loan from the patriarch, and years later he bought $3.5m in gambling chips to help his son pay off the debts of a failing casino, which was found to have broken the law by accepting them .
(19) The whole renegotiation was a gambling of Britain’s place in Europe in the case of Tory party management.
(20) To secure a yes, ask if we should stick with what we know instead of recklessly gambling with jobs and investment; ask if Britain is an open country at heart and if we want the future to be modelled on something more optimistic than Nigel Farage’s fantasies about the past.
Garbling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Garble
Example Sentences:
(1) His phone calls have become filled with echoes and garbled talk.
(2) Transposition of the corner of the mouth utilizing the Z-plasty technique has proven to be an effective method to correct the drooling and garbled speech associated with facial paralysis.
(3) "When she came out with some particularly garbled bit of folklore and was met with the usual amusement and incomprehension, she retorted 'It may be an old fallacy, but it's true!'
(4) Now 86, Daddy – the 11th Duke of Marlborough - has the garbled, sticky plum crumble diction of the irredeemably posh.
(5) The text seemed more like garbled science fiction than a guide for students and civil servants.
(6) Republican debate: Donald Trump was garbled, incoherent - but dominant Read more But while the doubts stuck to more moderate Republican candidates, in their own way they stuck to the Donald as well.
(7) Wodehouse called it a "frightful label", and his garbled childhood pronunciation, 'Plum', became his affectionate nickname for the rest of his life.
(8) I'll do a round-up shortly... • - and not garbling his chambers of Congress as I unforgivably did earlier.
(9) Clean energy is really struggling because the story has gotten garbled," said Larry Schweiger, president of the National Wildlife Federation .
(10) Experts say an independent run would almost certainly hand the race over to Democrats and likely another Clinton?” Trump was unapologetic, although his explanation was garbled.
(11) Coburn appeared uncomfortable, frequently garbling his words and drawing derisive laughter from the audience.
(12) Each usage is found to be imprecise and unreliable, and many of the usages are garbled, with inappropriate comparisons commonly made among them.
(13) • This article was amended on Monday 29 April 2013 to correct the standfirst, which had become garbled during the editing process.
(14) It doesn’t matter what language you are speaking, if you are speaking in a garbled fashion.” 8.46pm BST Meanwhile my Guardian colleagues and I are being booed ... ... for not participating in the Mexican wave in the stadium.
(15) So far they have revealed little about themselves, posting brief notes and links on Pastebin – a site favoured by hackers to “dump” material – writing in garbled English that suggests it is not their first language.
(16) • This article was updated on 26 July 2014 to edit a garbled quote at the end of the text.
(17) "If (for example) a person doesn't speak very good English, or is simply unclear, it may be better to quote their slightly broken or garbled English than to quote their more precise written work," he wrote, but conceded that this was "an error of judgment".
(18) Unsplitting the infinitive in the New Yorker cartoon caption "I'm moving to France to not get fat" (yielding "I'm moving to France not to get fat") would garble the meaning, and doing so with "Profits are expected to more than double this year," would result in gibberish: "Profits are expected more than to double this year."
(19) Now the maverick electronic producer’s sixth studio album has a release date, an amusingly garbled press release and song titles that are gnomic in the extreme – tracks such as 4 bit 9d api+e+6 [126.26] suggest this won’t be an easy-listening affair with designs on the charts.
(20) • This article was amended on 19 February 2016 to correct a percentage given for Cambridge in the last paragraph and clarify an earlier garbled sentence.