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.

Noun

(en-noun)

The state that follows birth, and precedes death; the state of being alive and living.

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, title= It's a gas , passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}

#(lb) A status possessed by any of a number of entities, including animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and sometimes viruses, which have the properties of replication and metabolism.

(lb) A period of time.

#The period during which one (a person, an animal, a plant, a star) is alive.

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#*:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

#*1916', (Ezra Meeker), ''The Busy '''Life of Eighty-Five Years of Ezra Meeker

#The span of time during which an object operates.

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#The period of time during which an object is recognizable.

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#(lb) A life sentence; a term of imprisonment of a convict until his or her death.

(lb) Personal existence.

#(lb) The essence of the manifestation and the foundation of the being.

#*1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), , Ch.VI:

#*:"I realize as never before how cheap and valueless a thing is life'. '''Life''' seems a joke, a cruel, grim joke. You are a laughable incident or a terrifying one as you happen to be less powerful or more powerful than some other form of ' life which crosses your path; but as a rule you are of no moment whatsoever to anything but yourself. You are a comic little figure, hopping from the cradle to the grave. Yes, that is our trouble—we take ourselves too seriously; but Caprona should be a sure cure for that." She paused and laughed.

#(lb) The subjective and inner manifestation of the individual.

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#The world in general; existence.

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#A worthwhile existence.

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#Animation; spirit; vivacity.

#*(Henry Felton) (1679-1740)

#*:No notion of life and fire in fancy and in words.

#*(William Wordsworth) (1770-1850)

#*:That gives thy gestures grace and life .

#The most lively component or participant.

#*1970 , Mathuram Bhoothalingam, The finger on the lute: the story of Mahakavi Subramania Bharati, National Council of Educational Research and Training, p.87:

#*:"Don't I know that it is you who is the life of this house. Two delightful children!"

#*1998 , Monica F. Cohen, Professional domesticity in the Victorian novel: Women, work and home, Cambridge University Press, page 32:

#*:And he is the life of the party at the Musgroves for precisely this reason: the navy has made him into a great storyteller.

#Something which is inherently part of a person's existence, such as job, family, a loved one, etc.

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#(lb) Social life.

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#*:It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.

#A biography.

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#*(Conyers Middleton) (1683-1750)

#*:Writers of particular lives are apt to be prejudiced in favour of their subject.

(lb) One of the player's chances to play, lost when a mistake is made.

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