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Gamed vs Gazed - What's the difference?

gamed | gazed |

As verbs the difference between gamed and gazed

is that gamed is (game) while gazed is (gaze).

gamed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (game)
  • Anagrams

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    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

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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

    * * 1000 English basic words ----

    gazed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (gaze)

  • gaze

    English

    Verb

    (gaz)
  • To stare intently or earnestly.
  • * 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
  • Gerty MacDowell who was seated near her companions, lost in thought, gazing far away into the distance was, in very truth, as fair a specimen of winsome Irish girlhood as one could wish to see.
    In fact, for Antonioni this gazing is probably the most fundamental of all cognitive activities ... (from Thinking in the Absence of Image)
  • * Bible, Acts i. 11
  • Why stand ye gazing up into heaven?
  • (poetic) To stare at.
  • * 1667': Strait toward Heav'n my wondring Eyes I turnd, / And '''gaz'd a while the ample Skie — John Milton, ''Paradise Lost (book VIII)
  • Synonyms

    * gape, stare, look

    Troponyms

    * (to stare intently) ogle

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
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  • *:Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze , her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
  • (lb) The object gazed on.
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:made of my enemies the scorn and gaze
  • In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the relationship of the subject with the desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed.
  • *2003 , Amelia Jones, The feminism and visual culture reader , p.35:
  • *:She counters the tendency to focus on critical strategies of resisting the male gaze , raising the issue of the female spectator.
  • Derived terms

    * (l)

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