Game vs Null - What's the difference?
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A playful or competitive activity.
#A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
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#(label) An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.
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#*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 .
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#*:“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.
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#(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.
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#One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.
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A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
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Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
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*:I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, straining upon the start. The game ’s afoot!
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*:“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”.
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, title= An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
(label) Wild animals hunted for food.
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The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.
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(label) A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal; a scheme.
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*(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.
(colloquial) Willing to participate.
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(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,
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.
(transitive, slang, of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
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* 2010 , Mystery, The Pickup Artist: The New and Improved Art of Seduction , Villard Books (2010), ISBN 9780345518217,
* 2010 , Sheila McClear, "
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between game and null
is that game is a playful or competitive activity while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective game
is (colloquial) willing to participate.As a verb game
is to gamble.game
English
Noun
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.}}
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) racketAntonyms
* (antonyms to be checked) drudgery, work, toilDerived terms
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(er)- I'm game , would you like to tell me how [to do that]?
- 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, valiantAntonyms
* (willing to participate) cautious, disinclinedVerb
(gam)- We'll bury them in paperwork, and game the system.
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.
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- A business associate of mine at the time, George Wu, sat across the way, gaming a stripper the way I taught him.
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 systemSee also
* (wikipedia "game")Anagrams
* * 1000 English basic words ----null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.