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What does game mean?
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game

A game is something that people do to have fun. Shall we play a game? Game are wild animals that are hunted for food. The forest is full of game.

game

To game means to play a game. Peter has been gaming for four hours without eating any lunch.

game

a contest with rules to determine a winner you need four people to play this game a single play of a sport or other contest the game lasted two hours an amusement or pastime they played word games he thought of his painting as a game that filled his empty time his life was all fun and games animal hunted for food or sport the game equipment needed in order to play a particular game the child received several games for his birthday frivolous or trifling behavior for actors, memorizing lines is no game for him, life is all fun and games (= biz) your occupation or line of work he's in the plumbing game she's in show biz the flesh of wild animals that is used for food (games) the score at a particular point or the score needed to win the game is 6 all he is serving for the game (tennis) a division of play during which one player serves willing to face danger (= plot) a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal) they concocted a plot to discredit the governor I saw through his little game from the start (= bet on, back) place a bet on Which horse are you backing? I'm betting on the new horse (= crippled) disabled in the feet or legs a crippled soldier a game leg

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Simple sentences

It rained heavily, and consequently the baseball game was called off.
Football is an old game.
Even if it rains, the game will be played.
The game was put off because of rain.
After the game, he went straight home to feed his dog.
What's your favorite role-playing game?
He's sure that he'll win the game.
Tom and Mary played a game of Russian roulette.
Would you like to play a game?
Stop talking about the game.
It seemed like a game to us.
It seemed like a game to me.
The coaches shook hands after the game.
The French government has launched an online game that challenges taxpayers to balance the national budget.
Every time I join a new game of Warcraft, I am pitted against a new team of adversaries.
Did you watch the game?
Beside you, I'm only a beginner at this game.
We must abide by the rules of the game.
Our team won the game.
To our disappointment, our team lost the game.
Our team lost the first game.
Having lost the game over and over again, he finally gave in.
What time will the game start?
I'm playing a TV game.
We had to call off the game because of rain.
We called off the game on account of rain.
The rain prevented us from finishing our game of tennis.
Your team doesn't have a prayer to win the championship game.
Thanks to your stupidity, we lost the game.
To our great disappointment, the game was called off.
It is not important whether we win the game or not.

Movie subtitles

Is it wrong if you think of love as a game too?
We could think of communicating with an alien civilisation as like a game of cosmic catch.
He plays game for living.
How about maybe he's playing this game that he's a very nice guy, everybody trusts him, just to win the game?
Look, we're playing a game.
I'm playing a game-- for money.
I don't do romance, and I'm not playing a dating game.
I'm game, yeah.
If this is all part of the game, it's beyond me at this point.
Let's play a game. Oh! Yeah.
Okay, you want to play that game?
Game has just begun.
Uh, these are just some guys I put together for a poker game.
But trust me, he lost face and therefore the game.
We used to play this one game.
Oh, so that's your game.
Plays a good game.
Plays a fine game.
Fish, you ask, and game?
I want to play some more of that shell game.
He means, Lopez, we might find better game.
The game is up.
You know, this game ain't for guys that's soft.
I've been in this game many years, and I put the cuffs on a lot of mugs.
What's the game?
But it ain't my idea of a man's game.
That's just part of the game.
You should think about getting out of the game for a while.
The game, the life, it makes people do things that they wouldn't normally do.
We want to play the winners. The losers of this game are playing the winners.
This game is like a religion to us, and they are denying our rights to practice our religion.
Bud, I'm trying to make it so you guys can fight it out on the soccer field in a game against Frankie's crew.
What's all this fucking bullshit about a soccer game? Why? You scared?
Frankie, I just heard you challenged bud's team to a soccer game.
Yeah, I'd totally watch that game, and I don't even give a crap about soccer.
Both sides fought hard, but when the recess bell rang, the game was still scoreless.
So the game was continued at morning recess the next day.
But just when it looked like bud's team had the game in the bag, Frankie found a way to change the rules of the to change the rules of the game.
That's it. Game over.

News and current affairs

With a dispassionate eye on the long game, what will the president himself be thinking?
Recent moves to ease monetary policy have been a step in the right direction; but, so far, they have not proved to be a game changer.
Spain, Argentina, and Germany, to name but a few countries, have put forward very young teams that have played an impressive game.
Germany urgently needs this kind of optimism, because, unfortunately, two universal principles will continue to apply in the future: first, the winter will return, and, second, the ball is round and the next game is always the most difficult.
I have likened the distribution of power in politics today as analogous to a three-dimensional chess game.
Whoever plays a three-dimensional game by focusing on only one board is bound to lose in the long run.
Sharply rising income inequality has raised the stakes of the economic game.
With higher interest rates depressing housing prices, the game is over.
The Republican Party's real game is to try to lock that income and wealth advantage into place.
Now an explosion of new media devices is joining the TV set: DVDs, computers, game boxes, smart phones, and more.
Suppose that as long as a version of this deal is the only game in town, the creeping physical expansion of the Israeli state and the demographic expansion of Israeli Arabs will continue to erode its foundation.
Realizing that the game was lost, the Social Democrats joined with Klaus's opponents in parliament on January 5th to demand Hodac's resignation.
A chemical-weapons attack on the scale just seen in Syria must be deemed a game changer.
Faced with the North's dangerous nuclear game, we should ask what would have happened if, over the last 20 some years, the North Korea problem had been approached with the sagacity of Metternich and Kennedy.
The game is to use international recognition of an independent Palestinian state to pressure the US to retreat from its almost unconditional support for Israeli policy.
We need a game changer, like the integrated circuit, radio, or electricity.
Stalemate has become the name of the game in US politics in recent years.
Power in a global information age is distributed among countries in a pattern that resembles a complex three-dimensional chess game.
And that is what ultimately makes the China-centric blame game so absurd.
Now the game is up.
Swept up in the blame game, the US is doing the opposite.
That game - based on a belief in ever-spiraling home prices - is over.
The rules of the game would be changed and a whole variety of strategic goals could be achieved - European security, neighborhood conflicts, energy security, arms reduction, anti-proliferation, etc.
Yet one thing is clear: Chavez was the first ruler of his generation to recognize the region's fatigue and disillusion with neo-liberalism, and to propose new rules of the game.
America's readiness to stand by them when the game gets rough will determine the strength and size of its security-alliance system in Asia in the years ahead.
It was Gilani who sat next to Singh to watch the game; but, ultimately, process, rather than protocol, will determine how bilateral relations move forward.

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