What's the difference between game and novum?

Game


Definition:

  • (n.) Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.
  • (v. i.) Sport of any kind; jest, frolic.
  • (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.

Novum


Definition:

  • (n.) A game at dice, properly called novem quinque (L., nine five), the two principal throws being nine and five.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Eighteen women (median age 54 years, 36-79) with urinary motor urge (n = 13) or sensory urge (n = 5) incontinence were treated for three 2-week periods with emepronium carrageenate (EC) (Cetiprin Novum) in daily doses of 500 and 1000 mg and placebo.
  • (2) In the first patient (aged 29) who took Ortho-Novum 2 mg. for 11 months prior to infarction and who had an abnormal glucose tolerance test, selective coronary angiography revealed a segmental occlusion of the proximal left anterior descending coronary artery.
  • (3) Ortho-Novum increased alpha-s-antiplasmin antigen at 12 months.
  • (4) Standard curves of progesterone RIAs performed while the technician was taking either Ortho Novum 1 + 50 or Ovral, or on no contraceptive are reported.
  • (5) This case report concerns a 29-year-old caucasian woman who developed cholestatic jaundice while taking Ortho-Novum 2 mg. Biliary stasis was diagnosed from laboratory tests and gradually subsided when the medication was withdrawn.
  • (6) Patients given Ortho-Novum 5 showed a continued significant elevation of levels of factors VIII and IX for the duration of the study, and the partial thromboplastin time reflected this increase on days 4 and 10.
  • (7) Carbohydrate metabolism was investigated over 1-year period in new users of 2 different triphasic oral contraceptives (OCs)--Ortho Novum 777, which contains the progestin norethindrone, and Triphasil, in which levonorgestrel is the progestin.
  • (8) Serum lipid and apoprotein levels were determined in fasting women after longterm use (5-12 years) of Depo-Provera, Orgametril, Ortho Novum SQ, Binordiol, Microgynon-50, and Ministat.
  • (9) They also decreased partial thromboplastin time (Triphasil at 6 months, p.01), and at 12 months, p.001; Ortho-Novum at 6 months, p.01).
  • (10) The condition was found to be reproducible when Ortho-Novum 2 mg. was given again.
  • (11) Compared with matched controls, pure progestogens (Depo Provera and Orgametril) caused a moderate decrease of TG, HDL chol, and Apo A1, whereas estrogen-dominant oral contraceptives (Ortho Novum SQ) increased the same parameters.
  • (12) 618 women used Ortho-Novum 2mg (2 mg norethindrone and .1mg mestranol) for 5330 cycles of treatment.
  • (13) In the second menstrual cycle, the experimental cycle, nine girls were given Micronor, a progestogen type oral contraceptive and four girls were given Ortho-Novum SQ, a sequential type oral contraceptive.
  • (14) Researchers from Gainesville, Florida compared data on 20 women who were randomly assigned the triphasic oral contraceptive (OC) Triphasil (ethinyl estradiol and levonorgestrel) with data on 24 women who were randomly assigned the triphasic OC Ortho-Novum (ethinyl estradiol and norethindrone) and data on 8 women who were controls to evaluate these 2 triphasic OCs' effects on coagulation and anticoagulation factors.
  • (15) Thus, the patient was placed on Ortho-Novum as well as imipramine.
  • (16) 9 were taking the oral contraceptive, Ortho-Novum; 4 were fitted with an IUD; and the remaining 25 were used as controls.
  • (17) Laënnec's invention of the stethoscope (1816) and De l' Auscultation Médiate (1819) inspired Piorry to make an analogous contribution to the technique of percussion (which had been originally described by Auenbrugger in his Inventum Novum in 1761 and translated from the Latin into French by Corvisart in 1808).
  • (18) If pregnancy is to be avoided hormonal ovulation inhibitors as optimal, since their effectiveness is over 90% (Cilest, Femovan, Marvelon, and Ortho-Novum 2 mg).
  • (19) The effect on the coagulation mechanism of lactation suppressants was determined by comparing observations on a group of untreated women and two other groups, one receiving Vallestril (methallenestrill 20 mg) and the other Ortho-Novum 5 (5 mg norethindrone and 0.075 mg mestranol).
  • (20) A benign hepatic adenoma was discovered in a young woman who had been taking an OC (Ortho-Novum 2) for 7 years.

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