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Definition: Gaming |
GamingNoun1. The act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize); "his gambling cost him a fortune"; "there was heavy play at the blackjack table". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gaming" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: GamingSynonyms: gambling (n), play (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Gaming."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Chance 2 | Statistics, theory of Probabilities, theory of Chances; bookmaking; assurance; speculation, gaming. |
Intention | Gaming house, gambling house, betting house; bucket shop; gambling joint; totalizator, totalizer; hell; betting ring; dice, dice box. |
Rashness | Gaming, gambling; blind bargain, leap in the dark, leap of faith, fool's paradise; too many eggs in one basket. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Gaming |
| English words defined with "gaming": baize ♦ croupier ♦ Dead set, Dicebox ♦ gaming card, gaming house, gaming table, Gord ♦ Hazardry ♦ Recoupe ♦ To turn the tables. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "gaming": AMBIDEXTER ♦ Bet ♦ DONE UP ♦ Fighting the Tiger, Fulhams ♦ Home Phoneline Networking Alliance ♦ KENO WRITER ♦ MUD Object Oriented ♦ SECRET, SET ♦ WIBLING'S WITCH. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "gaming": Cassino. (references) |
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Screenplays | Not even the $20,000 for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally. (The Godfather: Part II; writing credit: Francis Ford Coppola) | |
Lyrics | You gaming ("All I Have"; performing artist: Jennifer Lopez) | |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Roulette; gambling; gaming; chance; black; red; even; odd; . | | Gambling; taking risks; betting; bet; wager; Las Vegas; gaming. |
| Gaming; gambling; gamble; chip; shuffle. | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Franklin | Keep flax from fire, youth from gaming. |
Henry David Thoreau | All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong. |
Oliver Goldsmith | Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry. |
William Wycherley | Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before. |
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Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | He observed that among the diversions of our nobility and gentry I had mentioned gaming. |
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Business | However, with substantial changes in legislation regarding gaming since 1994, the operation of legal casinos has become an accepted part of the tourism industry. (references) | |
The gaming sector is a relative newcomer to the industry in South Africa, due to previously conservative legislation restricting the operation of casinos to former 'homeland' areas. (references) | ||
Expected requirements of the air forces include ongoing technical support, maintenance support, and spare parts for C-130, F-4 upgrade, F-16, E2-C, CH-47 Chinook, Apache, and Black Hawk. There is also a requirement for C-130 aircraft simulators, a War Gaming Center and CNS-ATM, aircraft test equipment, and a strategic mission planning system. (references) | ||
Economic History | Ireland | Laws covering gaming and lotteries as well as restrictive trade practices are strictly enforced by the government. (references) |
Bahamas | As a further incentive to draw tourists, the Government amended the Lotteries and Gaming Acts in October 1995 to allow for sports betting. (references) | |
Philippines | The government controls and operates the country's casinos through the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) and runs lotto/sweepstake operations through the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO). (references) | |
Political Economy | SPAIN | Non-EU resident investors must obtain Spanish government authorization to invest in broadcasting (signatories to the WTO Telecoms Agreement are exempt from this requirement), gaming, air transport, or defense. (references) |
POLAND | The remaining restrictions on foreign direct investment concern foreign acquisitions of certain categories of real estate, indirect ownership of Polish insurance companies, air and shipping transport, broadcasting, certain telecommunication services, and gaming. (references) | |
JAMAICA | Import licenses: Although Jamaica has made considerable headway in trade liberalization, some items still require an import license, including milk powder, plants and parts of plants for perfume or pharmaceutical purposes, gum-resins, vegetable saps and extracts, certain chemicals, motor vehicles, arms and ammunition, certain toys such as water pistols, and gaming machines. (references) | |
Trade | Thailand | Imports of used motorcycles and parts, household refrigerators using CFCs, and gaming machines are prohibited . (references) |
Barbados | Goods subject to bound duty rates can be found on the Customs Tariff (Amendment) Order, 2000 S.I. 2000 No. 29. Items such as fireworks, gaming machines and passenger vehicles still remain on the schedule. (references) | |
Jamaica | These items include milk powder, refined sugar, plants and parts of plants for perfume or pharmaceutical purposes, gum-resins, vegetable saps and extracts, certain chemicals, motor vehicles and parts, arms and ammunition, and certain toys, such as water pistols and gaming machines. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Gaming" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 46.67% of the time. "Gaming" is used about 60 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 46.67% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Noun (proper) | 21.67% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 16.67% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (singular) | 15% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 60 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Australia | Consolidated Gaming Corp. Ltd. | United Kingdom | Gaming Insight P.L.C. |
| USA | Acres Gaming Incorporated | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "gaming": gaming board ♦ gaming card ♦ gaming house ♦ gaming laws ♦ gaming rules ♦ gaming table. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "gaming": gaming-boards, gaming-house, gaming-houses, gaming-tables. | |
Ending with "gaming": war-gaming. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
online gaming | 4,688 |
gaming | 3,909 |
gaming site | 3,095 |
computer gaming | 1,221 |
gaming web site | 1,141 |
gaming zone | 1,096 |
casino gaming | 1,012 |
free online gaming | 525 |
gaming software | 452 |
internet gaming | 415 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gaming"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kumar (gambling). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хазарт (gamble, gambling, play), комарджийство (gaming table). (various references) | |
Chinese | 赌博 (gamble, Gambled, gambling). (various references) | |
Czech | procvièování her. (various references) | |
Danish | spilleautomat (gambling machine, gaming machine). (various references) | |
Dutch | goktent (gambling house, gaming house), gokautomaat (gambling machine, gaming machine), speelhuis (gambling house, gaming house), speelautomaat (gambling machine, gaming machine), College van toezicht op de kansspelen (Netherlands Gaming Control Board). (various references) | |
Finnish | peliluola (gambling hall, gaming club), pelikasino (gambling house, gaming house). (various references) | |
French | jeux d'argent (gamble, gambling). (various references) | |
German | um Geld spielend (gambling). (various references) | |
Greek | αυτόματη μηχανή παιχνιδιών (gambling machine, gaming machine). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משחקי מזל (gambling). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szerencsejáték (gamble, gambling, game of chance, game of hazard, lottery). (various references) | |
Italian | simulazione (concealment, faking, feigning, feint, malingering, pretence, pretense, putting forward something as genuine, simulation, supposition), pianificazione dell'esperimento. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 賭博 (gambling den, gambling house, gaming room). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | とばくじょう (gambling den, gambling house, gaming room). (various references) | |
Korean | 도박 (Aleatory, gamble). (various references) | |
Manx | thie cronchor (casino, gaming house), boayrd carrooagh (gaming table). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aminggay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | máquina de jogo (gambling machine, gaming machine), casino (casino, gambling house, gaming house, gamma). (various references) | |
Romanian | masã de joc (gaming board, green table). (various references) | |
Russian | азартная игра (gambling, hazard, play). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kockanje (gamble, gambling). (various references) | |
Spanish | juego de azar. (various references) | |
Swedish | spelkasino (gambling house, gaming house), spelhus (gambling house, gaming house). (various references) | |
Turkish | kumar oynama, kumar (gamble, gambling, game of hazard, hazard, play). (various references) | |
Ukranian | азартна гра (gamble, gambling, play, plunging). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự đánh bạc. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gaming": gamings. (additional references) | |
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"Gaming" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gaanin, gabing, gaiiing, gaman, gamina, gamlin, gammagt, gammin, Ganong, gasing, gemang, Genung, giming, gimming, gouming, Gramigni, Guambino. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gaming" (pronounced gā"ming) |
| 4 | -ā" m i ng | acclaiming, aiming, blaming, claiming, disclaiming, exclaiming, flaming, framing, inflaming, maiming, naming, proclaiming, reclaiming, renaming, shaming, taming. |
| 3 | -m i ng | affirming, alarming, arming, assuming, barnstorming, beaming, becoming, blooming, blossoming, bombing, booming, bottoming, brainstorming, brimming, calming, charming, climbing, combing, coming, condemning, confirming, conforming, consuming, cramming, damming, damning, daydreaming, deprogramming, diagraming, dimming, disarming, dooming, dreaming, drumming, dumbing, embalming, farming, filming, firebombing, firming, foaming, forming, forthcoming, fuming, gleaming, gloaming, grooming, harming, heartwarming, helming, hemming, homecoming, homing, humming, incoming, informing, jamming, lambing, lemming, liming, looming, mainstreaming, misinforming, mushrooming, nonperforming, numbing, oncoming, outperforming, overcoming, overwhelming, performing, plumbing, presuming, priming, programing, programming, ramming, reaffirming, rearming, redeeming, reforming, reprogramming, resuming, rhyming, roaming, rooming, scheming, screaming, seeming, shortcoming, skimming, slamming, slimming, squirming, steaming, stemming, storming, streaming, strumming, succumbing, summing, swarming, swimming, teaming, teeming, terming, thumbing, timing, transforming, trimming, unassuming, unbecoming, upcoming, vacuuming, warming, welcoming, zooming. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-g-i-m-n" | |
-1 letter: aging, gamin. | |
-2 letters: agin, amin, gain, gang, giga, magi, main, migg, mina. | |
-3 letters: aim, ain, ami, ani, gag, gam, gan, gig, gin, mag, man, mig, nag, nam, nim. | |
-4 letters: ag, ai, am, an, in, ma, mi, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-g-i-m-n" | |
+1 letter: gamings, gamming, gauming, gingham, imaging. | |
+2 letters: damaging, gambling, ginghams, gleaming, gloaming, homaging, imagings, managing, mangling. | |
+3 letters: angiogram, gamboling, gammoning, gazumping, gemmating, gigantism, gimbaling, gloamings, grimacing, imagining, magicking, maligning, margining, massaging, messaging, migrating, mispaging, montaging, rampaging, reimaging, rummaging. | |
+4 letters: almsgiving, angiograms, augmenting, comanaging, damagingly, demagoging, diagraming, embargoing, emigrating, endamaging, fumigating, galumphing, gambolling, gametangia, garmenting, geminating, gigantisms, gimballing, glamouring, goddamming, goddamning, grangerism, magnifying, margenting, misgauging, misgrading, mitigating, mortgaging, programing, redamaging, triggerman. | |
+5 letters: almsgivings, anagramming, beglamoring, campaigning, demagoguing, diagramming, dogmatizing, embrangling, fragmenting, gametangium, gametogenic, gangsterism, geomagnetic, germanizing, germinating, glamorising, glamorizing, glassmaking, grangerisms, immigrating, magnetising, magnetizing, malingering, marginating, megaphoning, misaligning, mischarging, misgrafting, mismanaging, monograming, programings, programming, reimagining, scrimmaging, scrummaging, thingamajig, thingumajig. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 6D 69 6E 67 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .- -- .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100001 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a m i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 006D 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)416779758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Sounds 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Usage Frequency 12. Names: Company Usage | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Derivations | 17. Rhymes 18. Anagrams 19. Orthography 20. Bibliography |
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