(n.) A neglected and untrained city boy; a young street Arab.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was fine work from the Dardenne brothers – their Le Gamin au Vélo was a modern reworking of Oliver Twist and Bicycle Thieves .
(2) Samantha Barks (the Les Misérables movie) stars as the Gallic gamine with Adam Chanler-Berat (Next to Normal, Peter and the Starcatcher) as her fanciful love interest.
(3) That's all well and good for gamine young things like you, but for the rest of us who don't want to look like Grayson Perry, any thoughts?
(4) Her quiet lifestyle, gamine looks and infrequent personal appearances have fuelled her reputation as a misanthropic genius.
(5) Paulette Goddard as the gamin has taken kindly to his style.
(6) Sure, the models might look all gamine and cute in their "boyfriend" jeans in magazines ("I'm so thin my jeans are barely clinging to my hipbones!")
(7) As it is, it won the Grand Prix, jointly with the Dardenne brothers' Le Gamin au Vélo, which was a powerful and involving work, but not obviously a progression and development from their earlier films.
(8) As Olympic fever will take over next year, the Dardennes here had lovely Cécile de France in Le Gamin au Vélo , and I hear of plans for two British cycling films: James Erskine is recounting the life of Italian Tour de France winner Marco Pantani and Shane Meadows is making a biopic of 1960s British cyclist Tom Simpson.
(9) But where Tautou, gamine and Gallic, belongs to a highly bankable tradition, Sy is a one-off, at least for now.
(10) Two different styles of street life are presented--the gamines and chupagruesos.
(11) Cannes favourites the Dardennes brothers, two time recipients of the Palme d'Or, shared the Grand Prix for Le Gamin au Velo, a neo-realist tale of bad parenting and bike-riding in Belgium.
(12) Rodin's 'Thinker' with a xylophone of ribs and a gamine haircut.
(13) The programmers seemed to group themes in batches this year, so the early days of the festival had female film-makers, then we moved through a couple of days of sex and paedophilia (bordello movie The House of Tolerance , Austrian film Michael ), before fathers and sons took over ( Tree of Life , Le Gamin au Vélo , Footnote ), then French politics ( La Conquête , Pater ), then depression ( The Beaver , Melancholia ), antisemitism ( The Beaver , Melancholia ) and, eventually, sexual politics (Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In , The Source ).
(14) And you've seen even more full-page magazine ads featuring the same ultra-long-and-thin gamines wearing that outfit, or part of it, trying to sell you jewellery, shoes or designer bags.
Gaming
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Game
(n.) The act or practice of playing games for stakes or wagers; gambling.
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.