Trick vs Game - What's the difference?

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Trick is a related term of game.

As nouns the difference between trick and game

is that trick is trick while game is a playful or competitive activity.

As an adjective game is

(colloquial) willing to participate.

As a verb game is

to gamble.

trick

English

Adjective

(er)

(slang) Stylish or cool.

Wow, your new sportscar is so trick .

Noun

(en noun)

Something designed to fool or swindle.

A single piece (or business) of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act.

An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

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Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank.

the tricks of boys

(Prior)

(dated) A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait.

a trick''' of drumming with the fingers; a '''trick of frowning

* William Shakespeare, King Lear act IV, scene VI:

The trick of that voice I do well remember.

* William Shakespeare,King John Act I, scene I

He hath a trick of Cœur de Lion's face.

A knot, braid, or plait of hair.

(Ben Jonson)

(card games) A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined.

* Alexander Pope

On one nice trick depends the general fate.

(slang) An act of prostitution. Generally used with turn .

(slang) A customer to a prostitute.

An entertaining difficult physical action.

A daily period of work, especially in shift-based jobs.

* 1885 , Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen, The Conductor and Brakeman , page 496:

On third trick from 12 m. to 8 am, we have W. A. White, formerly operator at Wallula, who thus far has given general satisfaction.

* 1899 , New York (State), Bureau of Statistics, Deptartment of Labor, Annual Report :

Woodside Junction—On 8 hour basis, first trick' $60, second '''trick''' $60, third ' trick $50.

* 1949 , Labor arbitration reports , page 738:

The Union contends that Fifer was entitled to promotion to the position of Group Leader on the third trick in the Core Room Department.

(nautical) A sailor's spell of work at the helm, usually two hours long.

A toy; a trifle; a plaything.

(Shakespeare)

Synonyms

* (something designed to trick) artifice, con, gambit, ploy, rip-off, See also * (magic trick) illusion, magic trick, sleight of hand * (customer to a prostitute) john, see also * (entertaining difficult physical action) * (daily period of work) shift

Verb

(en verb)

To fool; to cause to believe something untrue; to deceive.

You tried to trick me when you said that house was underpriced.

(heraldry) To draw (as opposed to blazon - to describe in words).

* 1600 , Hamlet , , by Shakespeare

The rugged Pyrrhus, he whose sable arms, / Black as his purpose, did the night resemble / When he lay couched in the ominous horse, / Hath now this dread and black complexion smear'd / With heraldry more dismal; head to foot / Now is he total gules; horridly trick'd / With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons

* Ben Jonson

They forget that they are in the statutes: there they are tricked , they and their pedigrees.

To dress; to decorate; to adorn fantastically; often followed by up'', ''off'', or ''out .

* Alexander Pope

Trick her off in air.

* John Locke

Tricking up their children in fine clothes.

* Macaulay

They are simple, but majestic, records of the feelings of the poet; as little tricked out for the public eye as his diary would have been.

Synonyms

* (to fool) con, dupe, fool, gull, have, hoodwink, pull the wool over someone's eyes, rip off * (to trick out) mod * See also

Derived terms

* bag of tricks * cheap trick * dirty trick * do the trick * hat trick * how's tricks? * Jedi mind trick * magic trick * politricks * tricker * trickery * trickiness * tricknology * trick out * trick or treat * trick point * trick shot * trickster * tricky * turn a trick, turn tricks

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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