Damage vs Strafe - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between damage and strafe

is that damage is injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact while strafe is punishment.

is to impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.

(wikipedia damage)

Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.

The storm did a lot of damage to the area.

* Francis Bacon

Great errors and absurdities many commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune.

(slang) Cost or expense.

"What's the damage ?" he asked the waiter.

(damag)

To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.

Be careful not to damage any of the fragile items while unpacking them.

* Clarendon

He came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship.

(straf)

To attack (ground targets) with automatic gunfire from a low-flying aircraft.

(video games) to sidestep; to move sideways without turning. A core mechanic of most first-person shooters.

* 2001 , Jana Hallford, Swords and circuitry: a designer's guide to computer role playing games

If the NPC is close to the player, he may also try using the tried-and-true Quake circle-strafing technique.

* 2007 , Stephen Cawood, Pat McGee, Microsoft XNA Game Studio Creator's Guide

A strafe is a side-to-side camera movement. If you're a fan of first-person shooter games, you know how fundamental strafing can be to a game.

(en noun)

An attack of machine-gun or cannon fire from a low-flying aircraft.

(video games) A sideways movement without turning.

* 2004 , Marc Saltzman, Game Creation and Careers: Insider Secrets from Industry Experts

We also have added a new game control called the "defensive strafe ," in which the user can press a button and stay facing forward.

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