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Gamine vs Gaming - What's the difference?

gamine | gaming |

As nouns the difference between gamine and gaming

is that gamine is a (usually female) street urchin; a homeless girl while gaming is the playing of a game or games, including but not limited to video games and games of chance.

As an adjective gamine

is (of a girl) having a boyish, mischievous charm; tomboyish.

As a verb gaming is

present participle of lang=en.

gamine

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a (usually female) street urchin; a homeless girl
  • a mischievous, playful, elfish, pert girl or young woman

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of a girl) having a boyish, mischievous charm; tomboyish.

    • See also

    * gamin

    Anagrams

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    gaming

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • The playing of a game or games, including but not limited to video games and games of chance.
  • * (Philip Schaff)
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Tom Vanderbilt)
    • , volume=189, issue=3, page=29, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= The lose-lose logic of the machine zone , passage=The US gaming industry, in a pamphlet called Demystifying Slot Machines […], argues that "slot manufacturers need to build devices for a society with a decreasing attention span and an increasing demand for exciting, fast-paced entertainment, all in a marketplace overflowing with competing entertainment options".}}
  • Careful, strategic use of rules to achieve one's purposes, as one would use the rules of a game.

    • Derived terms

    * gaming attendant * gaming the system * pre-gaming