Game vs Cradle - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between game and cradle

is that game is to exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable while cradle is to wrap protectively.

As nouns the difference between game and cradle

is that game is a playful or competitive activity while cradle is a bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.

As verbs the difference between game and cradle

is that game is to gamble while cradle is to contain in or as if in a cradle.

As an adjective game

is (colloquial) willing to participate.

game

English

Noun

A playful or competitive activity.

#A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.

#(label) An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.

#*1983 , Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes, and Walon Green, (WarGames) , MGM/UA Entertainment Co.:

#*:Joshua: Shall we play a game ?

#(label) A particular instance of playing a game; match .

#*:“I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.

#That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.

#The number of points necessary to win a game.

#(label) In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.

#(label) The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.

#One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.

A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.

Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.

*:I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, straining upon the start. The game ’s afoot!

*:“I'm through with all pawn-games ,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)

, volume=189, issue=6, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli , passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too.}}

An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.

(label) Wild animals hunted for food.

The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.

(label) A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal; a scheme.

*(Blackwood Magazine)

*:Your murderous game is nearly up.

*(George Saintsbury) (1845-1933)

*:It was obviously Lord Macaulay's game to blacken the greatest literary champion of the cause he had set himself to attack.

Synonyms

* See also * (synonyms to be checked) pastime, play, recreation, frolic, sport, diversion, fun, amusement, merriment, festivity, entertainment, spree, prank, lark, gambol, merrymaking, gaiety * (instance of gameplay) match * (field of gainful activity) line * (military) wargame * (business or occupation) racket * (questionable practices) racket

Antonyms

* (antonyms to be checked) drudgery, work, toil

Derived terms

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Adjective

(er)

(colloquial) Willing to participate.

* (rfdate) (computer game):

I'm game , would you like to tell me how [to do that]?

(of an animal) That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.

Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.

Injured, lame (of a limb).

* around 1900 , O. Henry,

You come with me and we'll have a cozy dinner and a pleasant talk together, and by that time your game ankle will carry you home very nicely, I am sure."

Synonyms

* (willing to participate) sporting, willing, daring, disposed, favorable, nervy, courageous, valiant

Antonyms

* (willing to participate) cautious, disinclined

Verb

(gam)

To gamble.

To play games and be a gamer.

To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.

We'll bury them in paperwork, and game the system.

(transitive, slang, of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.

* 2005 , " Picking up the pieces", The Economist , 6 October 2005:

Returning briefly to his journalistic persona to interview Britney Spears, he finds himself gaming her, and she gives him her phone number.

* 2010 , Mystery, The Pickup Artist: The New and Improved Art of Seduction , Villard Books (2010), ISBN 9780345518217, page 100:

A business associate of mine at the time, George Wu, sat across the way, gaming a stripper the way I taught him.

* 2010 , Sheila McClear, " Would you date a pickup artist?", New York Post , 9 July 2010:

How did Amanda know she wasn’t getting gamed ? Well, she didn’t. “I would wonder, ‘Is he saying stuff to other girls that he says to me?’ We did everything we could to cut it off . . . yet we somehow couldn’t.”

Derived terms

* game the system

Anagrams

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cradle

English

(wikipedia cradle)

Noun

(en noun)

A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.

* Cowper

the cradle that received thee at thy birth

* Shakespeare

No sooner was I crept out of my cradle / But I was made a king, at nine months old.

(figuratively) The place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence.

a cradle of crime

the cradle of liberty

(figuratively) Infancy, or very early life.

from the cradle to the grave

* Shakespeare

from their cradles bred together

* Clarendon

a form of worship in which they had been educated from their cradles

An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.

A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.

A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.

A case for a broken or dislocated limb.

A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the sensitive parts of an injured person.

(mining) A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth.

(mining) A suspended scaffold used in shafts.

(carpentry) A ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.

(Knight)

(nautical) A basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.

The cradle was ill-made. One victim fell into the sea and was lost and the ensuing delay cost three more lives.

A rest for the receiver of a telephone, or for certain computer hardware.

He slammed the handset into the cradle .

(contact juggling) A hand position allowing a contact ball to be held steadily on the back of the hand.

Synonyms

* (machine on rockers used in washing out auriferous earth) rocker * (rest for receiver of a telephone) rest

Derived terms

* cat's cradle * cradle cap * cradleland * cradlesong * from the cradle to the grave * the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world * rob the cradle

Verb

(cradl)

To contain in or as if in a cradle.

To rock (a baby to sleep).

To wrap protectively.

* cradling the injured man’s head in her arms

To lull or quieten, as if by rocking.

* D. A. Clark

It cradles their fears to sleep.

To nurse or train in infancy.

* Glanvill

He that hath been cradled in majesty will not leave the throne to play with beggars.

(lacrosse) To rock the lacrosse stick back and forth in order to keep the ball in the head by means of centrifugal force.

To cut and lay (grain) with a cradle.

To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.

* Knight

In Lombardy boats are cradled and transported over the grade.

To put ribs across the back of (a picture), to prevent the panels from warping.