Gamble vs Garble - What's the difference?
gamble | garble |
A significant risk, undertaken with a potential gain.
A risky venture
To take a risk, with the potential of a positive outcome.
To play risky games, especially casino games, for monetary gain.
To risk (something) for potential gain.
To interact with equipment at a casino
(obsolete) To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt; as, to garble spices.
To pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert; as, to garble a quotation; to garble an account.
To make false by mutilation or addition
(obsolete) refuse; rubbish
(obsolete) Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; garblings.
(Webster 1913)
As a proper noun gamble
is .As a verb garble is
(obsolete) to sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt; as, to garble spices.As a noun garble is
(obsolete) refuse; rubbish.gamble
English
(wikipedia gamble)Noun
(en noun)- ''The sailors had taken many gambles with the sea and always won.
Verb
(gambl)- He gambled his reputation on the outcome.
See also
* game of chancegarble
English
Verb
- The editor garbled the story.
Derived terms
* garbley gookNoun
(en noun)- (Wolcott)