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In countable terms the difference between game and rap

is that game is a questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal; a scheme while rap is a sharp blow with something hard.

In uncountable terms the difference between game and rap

is that game is wild animals hunted for food while rap is rap music.

In intransitive terms the difference between game and rap

is that game is to play games and be a gamer while rap is to strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.

As an adjective game

is willing to participate.

As an acronym RAP is

Recognized Air Picture.

game

English

Noun

  • 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”.
  • *{{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.
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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.

    • 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

    See also

    * (wikipedia "game")

    Anagrams

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    rap

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) rap, rappe, of (etyl) origin, related to (etyl) . More at (l).

    Noun

    (wikipedia rap)
  • (countable) A sharp blow with something hard.
    • The teacher gave the wayward pupil a rap across the knuckles with her ruler.
  • * 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter II,
    • He walked softly up the sanded path, tiptoed up the steps and across the piazza, and rapped at the front door, not too loudly, lest this too might attract the attention of the man across the street. There was no response to his rap . He put his ear to the door and heard voices within, and the muffled sound of footsteps. After a moment he rapped again, a little louder than before.
  • (uncountable) Blame (for something).
    • You can't act irresponsibly and then expect me to take the rap .
  • (informal) A casual talk
  • (uncountable) Rap music.
  • A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.
    • Synonyms
    * (blame) fall
    Derived terms
    * beat the rap * bum rap * rap music * rap song * take the rap

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) rappen, of (etyl) origin, related to (etyl) .

    Verb

    (rapp)
  • To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.
  • * 1845 , (Edgar Allan Poe), "":
    • Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, ¶ Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, ¶ While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, ¶ As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. ¶ "'Tis some visitor", I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — ¶ Only this, and nothing more."
  • * 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter II,
    • He walked softly up the sanded path, tiptoed up the steps and across the piazza, and rapped' at the front door, not too loudly, lest this too might attract the attention of the man across the street. There was no response to his rap. He put his ear to the door and heard voices within, and the muffled sound of footsteps. After a moment he ' rapped again, a little louder than before.
  • (dated) To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
  • * Prior
    • With one great peal they rap the door.
  • (metalworking) To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
  • (ambitransitive) To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.
    • ''He started to rap after listening to the Beastie Boys
    He rapped a song to his girlfriend.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 19 , author=Josh Halliday , title=Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised? , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=But the purported rise in violent videos online has led some MPs to campaign for courts to have more power to remove or block material on YouTube. The Labour MP Heidi Alexander said she was appalled after a constituent was robbed at knifepoint, and the attackers could be found brandishing weapons and rapping about gang violence online.}}
  • (informal) To talk casually.
    • Synonyms
    * (sense, strike something sharply with one's knuckles) knock
    Derived terms
    * rap on * rapper

    See also

    * emcee * hip-hop

    Etymology 3

    Uncertain.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.
    • (Knight)

    Etymology 4

    Perhaps contracted from rapparee.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps .
  • * Mrs. Alexander
    • Tie it [her money] up so tight that you can't touch a rap , save with her consent.
  • A whit; a jot.
    • I don't care a rap .
    That's not worth a rap .

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