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Definitions: Gambit |
GambitNoun1. An opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker. 2. A maneuver in a game or conversation. 3. A chess move early in the game in which the player sacrifices minor pieces in order to obtain an advantageous position. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gambit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1873. (references) |
Etymology: Gambit \Gam"bit\, noun. [French expression gambit, compare to Italian expression gambitto gambit, tripping up. See Gambol, noun.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Computing | Gambit |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A gambit is a chess opening, where something is sacrificed in order to achieve a better strategic position. Usually, the piece sacrificed is a pawn, but there are also gambits sacrificing a Bishop or Knight, like the Muzio gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 xf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.Bc4 g4 5.0-0) and Cochrane gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nxf7). Usually, the player who sacrifices something gains time or active piece play. A good example is the Middle or Danish gambit: 1.e4 e5 2.d4 xd4 3.c3 xc3 4.Bc4 xb2 5.Bxb2. White has two pawns less, but his bishops are places very well, looking to the opponents kingside. A very dubious gambit is the so called Halloween Gambit: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Pc3 Nf6 4.Nxe5?! Nxe5 5.d4.
Of course, one is not obliged to accept a gambit; often, one can decline without a problem.
The word gambit stems from the Italian 'gambetta' which means: setting a trap.
Some other gambits:
For the fictional comic book superhero in the Marvel Universe, see Gambit (comics).
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Gambit."
Synonyms: GambitSynonyms: ploy (n), stratagem (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Gambit |
| Specialty definitions using "gambit": Parallel Virtual Machine ♦ Scheme Library. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Gambit" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (gambit), French (gambit, opening gambit), German (gambit), Indonesian (gambit), Romanian (gambit), Serbo-Croatian (gambit), Swedish (gambit), Turkish (gambit). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Gambit (1972) American Gambit (1989) Gambit (1987) | |
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| "Gambit" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.16% of the time. "Gambit" is used about 62 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.16% | 59 | 44,010 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.23% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.61% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 62 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "gambit": opening gambit. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gambit | 585 |
x man gambit | 271 |
rogue gambit | 100 |
gambit pic | 96 |
gambit picture | 95 |
gambit weekly | 48 |
gambit wallpaper | 45 |
gambit new orleans | 44 |
fan fiction gambit | 37 |
gambit man picture x | 29 |
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| Language | Translations for "gambit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | hap në shah (Gambia), hap i parë (preliminary). (various references) | |
Arabic | مناورة (maneuver, manoeuvre, opening gambit, stall), إفتتاح لعبة الشطرنج. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гамбит, маневра (evolution, maneuver, manoeuvre, move, movement, play, ploy, shunt). (various references) | |
Czech | gambit, manévr (maneuver, manoeuvre). (various references) | |
Farsi | موضوع بحث , شروع بازی شطرنج , بذله (Jest, Joke, Quip). (various references) | |
French | gambit (opening gambit), man"uvre. (various references) | |
German | gambit. (various references) | |
Greek | αρχική κίνηση. (various references) | |
Hebrew | 'מביט. (various references) | |
Hungarian | lépés (footfall, footstep, measure, move, pace, step, stride, tread). (various references) | |
Indonesian | gambit. (various references) | |
Italian | gambetto (shackle). (various references) | |
Manx | arral (offer, press on, proffer). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ambitgay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | gâmbia (pin, Republic of The Gambia, The Gambia). (various references) | |
Romanian | gambit. (various references) | |
Russian | гамбит. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | gambit, početni potez, šah (chess, shah). (various references) | |
Spanish | gambito. (various references) | |
Swedish | utspel (action, lead), schackdrag. (various references) | |
Thai | การเอ่ยเพื่อเปิ"การสนทนา, กลเม็" (game). (various references) | |
Turkish | gambit, ilk söz, hile (adulteration, artifice, arts, canard, catch, cheat, cheating, chicane, cobweb, collusion, craft, cross, deceit, deception, decoy, device, do, dodge, doubling, dupery, duplicity, fake, false pretences, false pretenses, finesse, flam, flimflam, fraud, gadget, gaff, gammon, gimmick, gouge, hanky panky, have, have on, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, hoky-poky, humbug, imposture, jiggery pokery, maneuver, manipulation, manoeuvre, plant, ploy, practice, pretense, rig, rigging, rip off, ruse, sell, sham, sleight of hand, slyness, subterfuge, tortuosity, trick, trickery, wheeling and dealing, wile), hesaplı hareket. (various references) | |
Ukranian | гамбіт, перший крок. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gambit": gambits. (additional references) | |
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"Gambit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gabakt, Gabbichi, gabit, gabot, gambax, gambei, gambie, gambir, gamboa, gambon, gambt, gambut, gameit, gamit, gammagt, gammat, gammet, gammit, Gemito, Giamberti, Gmbatu, gmbtu, Gyamfi, Sgambati, Zammit. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gambit" (pronounced ga"mbi't) |
| 3 | -b i' t | Babbitt, cubit, debit, kilobit, megabit, rabbit, tidbit. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-g-i-m-t" | |
-1 letter: ambit. | |
-2 letters: bait, bima, gait, gamb, iamb, magi. | |
-3 letters: aim, ait, ami, bag, bam, bat, big, bit, gab, gam, gat, gib, git, mag, mat, mib, mig, tab, tag, tam. | |
-4 letters: ab, ag, ai, am, at, ba, bi, it, ma, mi, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-g-i-m-t" | |
+1 letter: gambits, megabit. | |
+2 letters: bigamist, megabits. | |
+3 letters: ambiguity, bigamists, bromating, combating. | |
+4 letters: abridgment, ambulating, combatting, embattling, lambasting, outbeaming, tambouring. | |
+5 letters: abominating, abridgement, abridgments, adumbrating, ambiguities, ambitioning, amblygonite, badmouthing, bombinating, brominating, drumbeating, imbricating, immitigable, immitigably, mothballing, sublimating, thingamabob. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 6D 62 69 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .- -- -... .. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100001 01101101 01100010 01101001 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a m b i t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 006D 0062 0069 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)416779687586 |
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