(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.
Nim
Definition:
(v. t.) To take; to steal; to filch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ver or Nim iv induced significant reduction of MAP and CVR.
(2) Overall, the NIM group showed a significantly better local-regional control rate than the placebo group (46% vs 32%).
(3) A multiple growth factor-producing tumor cell line (NIM-1) was newly established from a patient with thyroid cancer and remarkable neutrophilia.
(4) The National Infant Mortality Surveillance (NIMS) project aggregated data provided by 53 vital statistics reporting areas--50 States, New York City, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico (subsequently called States)--from their files of linked birth and death certificates and compared individual States' total infant mortality experiences for the 1980 birth cohort by age at death, race, birth weight, and plurality.
(5) A detailed mappage of vascular and neuronal NIM binding sites was allowed by silver-intensification of the NIM-gold complex bound to the nervous tissue.
(6) Interestingly, the principle larval antigenic components recognized by pigs were those recognized by the monoclonal anti-sera NIM-M1.
(7) A high-field 1H NMR investigation of Glp-His-cHyp-OH and its diastereomer Glp-His-Hyp-OH, obtained by Nim-detritylation of the key tripeptide, showed that the configuration at C-4 of the prolyl residues is critical for the determination of the preferred three-dimensional structure of the molecules.
(8) Two of these appear to correspond to the NIm-IA and NIm-II sites described for HRV-type 14, although there are also substantial differences.
(9) Nim, likewise, features old footage of a real chimp, spliced with that of a furred-up actor employed to re-enact crucial scenes not recorded at the time.
(10) The effect of NIM and CTX alone or in combination without radiation was assessed by tumor growth delay measured by tumor growth time (TGT).
(11) That conclusion, however, was invalidated by videotape analyses, which showed that most of Nim's utterances were prompted by his teacher's prior utterance, and that Nim interrupted his teachers to a much larger extent than a child interrupts an adult's speech.
(12) However, applying NIM 30 min before radiation and CTX 3.5 hrs after radiation, the ER increased to 1.6.
(13) By comparing its sequence with that of the nonamyloid kappa II Nim, a different distribution of some polar and apolar amino acid residues through the molecule is evidenced.
(14) MABP was slightly reduced, by 8 mmHg (7-9), and 9 mmHg (4-11) after infusion of NIM for 2 and 4 hours, respectively.
(15) Initial alignment of HRV2 with HRV14 based on the primary sequence and the knowledge of the three-dimensional structure of HRV14 showed that the most probable position of the majority of insertions and deletions occurred in the vicinity of the neutralizing immunogenic sites (NIm).
(16) The facilitative effect was equal in four cases: (i) making no response (NR), (ii) finger abduction (FA), (iii) noninvolved muscle (NIM), and (iv) involved muscle during treadle pressing (IM).
(17) These results suggest that the relaxant effect of Nim on rat aorta may be closely related to the blockade of Ca2+ entry through both potential-dependent calcium channels (PDC) and receptor-operated calcium channels (ROC), while the action on PDC seems to play a more important role than that on ROC.
(18) No reversal of the previously noted LCGU depression caused by the freezing lesion (Pappius, 1981) was detected following treatment with either PY-108-068 (PY) or nimodipine (NIM).
(19) The effects of anesthetic doses of ketamine (iv bolus of 3 mg X kg-1 followed by a continuous infusion of 20 micrograms X kg-1 X min-1) on functional residual capacity (FRC) measured by the helium dilution method and on the breathing pattern recorded by a noninvasive method (NIM) based on chest wall circumference changes were studied in 14 ASA P.S.
(20) NIM was bridged to colloidal gold sols by a suitable amphophilic detergent, and used according to autoradiographic procedures.