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Distant vs Telegaming - What's the difference?

distant | telegaming |

As an adjective distant

is far off (physically, logically or mentally).

As a noun telegaming is

the playing of games by two or more distant participants, especially using telecommunications, such as telephony, that predate the Internet.

distant

English

Alternative forms

* distaunt (obsolete) * dystant (obsolete) * dystaunt (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Far off (physically, logically or mentally).
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
  • Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings.

    • Related terms

    * distance * equidistant

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    telegaming

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The playing of games by two or more distant participants, especially using telecommunications, such as telephony, that predate the Internet.
  • * 1984 , Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Software Catalog
    • A twelve-year-old in Georgia? A grandmother in Walla Walla? But that's interactive telegaming , and I think it's a wave of the future.
  • * 1985 , Jonathan Erickson, William D Cramer, MacTelecommunications
    • Multiplayer telegaming , game playing with other people over telephone lines, overcomes this obstacle.
  • * 1986 , Compute magazine
    • But there is a lighter side to telecomputing — multiple-player telegaming .
  • * 1999 , Julie K Petersen, Data and telecommunications dictionary
    • Telegaming has been around for a long time. For centuries, people have played long distance chess and backgammon games by messenger and, more recently, by mail or phone.