Game vs To - What's the difference?

game | to |

As nouns the difference between game and to

is that game is a playful or competitive activity while to is thaw, weather conditions that make snow and ice melt.

As an adjective game

is (colloquial) willing to participate.

As a verb game

is to gamble.

game

English

Noun

A playful or competitive activity.

#A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.

#(label) An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.

#*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 .

#*:“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.

#(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.

#One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.

A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.

Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.

*:I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, straining upon the start. The game ’s afoot!

*:“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.

The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.

(label) A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal; a scheme.

*(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

Anagrams

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to

English

Alternative forms

* (dialectal) ter * (contraction) t' * (abbreviation)

Particle

(en-part)

I want to leave.

He asked me what to do.

I don’t know how to say it.

I have places to''' go and people '''to see.

* 1711 , :

To' err is human, ' to forgive divine.

* , Scene 1:

To be, or not to be: that is the question: /

* 2010 July, , headline [http://web.archive.org/web/20100705003703/http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gfMucgz8wUGUNUNXRyIyqzY6lWwQD9GM98N83]:

Odds are, BP to get new CEO this year

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=April 10 , author=Alistair Magowan , title=Aston Villa 1 - 0 Newcastle , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=To' that end, the home supporters were in good voice ' to begin with, but it was Newcastle who started the game in the ascendancy, with Barton putting a diving header over the top from Jose Enrique's cross.}}

"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to , but it was closed."

If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to .

Derived terms

* going to / gonna * got to / gotta * have to / hafta * ought to / oughta * supposed to / supposta * used to / usta * want to / wanna * fixing to / finna

Preposition

(English prepositions)

In the direction of, and arriving at.

We are walking to the shop.

* 2013 September 28, , " London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):

Driven by a perceived political need to adopt a hard-line stance, Mr. Cameron’s coalition government has imposed myriad new restrictions, the aim of which is to reduce net migration to Britain to below 100,000.

He devoted himself to education.

They drank to his health.

That is something to do.

His face was beaten to a pulp.

similar to''' ...'', ''relevant '''to''' ...'', ''pertinent '''to''' ...'', ''I was nice '''to''' him'', ''he was cruel '''to''' her'', ''I am used '''to walking.

(arithmetic)

one to one = 1:1

ten to one = 10:1.

* {{quote-news

, year=2012 , date=April 22 , author=Sam Sheringham , title=Liverpool 0-1 West Brom , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=In total, the Reds had 28 shots to their opponent's nine, and 15 corners to the Baggies' three.}}

(arithmetic) .

Three squared or three to the second power is nine.

Three to the power of two is nine.

Three to the second is nine.

I gave the book to him.

(time) Preceding.

ten to''' ten'' = 9:50; ''We're going to leave at ten '''to (the hour).

(Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) at

Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.

Adverb

(-)

Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.

Please push the door to .

* 1913 ,

He went in his room, pushed the door to , without fastening the latch.

(nautical) Into the wind.

Synonyms

* closed, shut

Antonyms

* open, ajar

References

* Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Spatial particles of orientation", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition , Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8

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