playstyle
game
gametype
at play
keepsies
PvP
serve
interactive fiction
pseudogame
gamer
rinforzando
gameful
rematch
replay
play
respawner
diviso
gamedev
gamelike
gameplaying
participant
player
gamesomely
ball game
position
casual gaming
hurley
kingmake
gamified
keepy uppy
multigame
go
pick-up game
service game
playtester
allegro ma non troppo
diamond
assist
tryhard
gambit
ploy
stratagem
cue sport
ludo
music game
court
in touch
playing field
cockshy
game equipment
goal
pizeball
power play
ludology
rule
counterplay
territory
pachinko
gameplayer
playboard
paganica
singles
rush
gamesplayer
yewei
roll up
padiddle
board
pickup
playspace
pitchpenny
game of the goose
gamey
bocce
passing
speel
pool cue
cue
butts up
sandbag
backgammon
multiplayer
pool stick
cue stick
racquet
white
tag
Soulsborne
round
cherry-bomb
boundary
formation
bugling
racket sport
gamification
gameful
diviso
gamelike
gamified
multigame
gamey
diviso
gamesomely
allegro ma non troppo
playstyle
game
gametype
keepsies
serve
interactive fiction
pseudogame
gamer
rinforzando
rematch
replay
play
respawner
gamedev
gameplaying
participant
player
ball game
position
casual gaming
hurley
keepy uppy
go
pick-up game
service game
playtester
diamond
assist
gambit
ploy
stratagem
cue sport
ludo
music game
court
playing field
cockshy
game equipment
goal
pizeball
power play
ludology
rule
territory
pachinko
gameplayer
playboard
paganica
singles
rush
gamesplayer
yewei
padiddle
board
pickup
playspace
pitchpenny
bocce
passing
speel
pool cue
cue
butts up
sandbag
backgammon
multiplayer
pool stick
cue stick
white
tag
Soulsborne
round
cherry-bomb
boundary
formation
bugling
racket sport
gamification
PvP
kingmake
tryhard
counterplay
roll up
racquet
noun
- A particular instance of playing a game.
- One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.
- The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.
- Prostitution. (Now chiefly in on the game.)
- Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
- An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.
- A school subject during which sports are practised.
- That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.
- The number of points necessary to win a game.
- In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.
- The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.
- A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
- An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
- A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal.
- Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
- wild animals hunted for food.
- A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
verb
- To gamble.
- To play card games, board games, or video games.
- 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.
- To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
adj
noun
prep_phrase
noun
- An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games.
- An impressive presentation (especially of a person's appearance).
- A portion of food or drink, a serving.
verb
- To be useful to; to meet the needs of.
- To be a servant or worker; to perform the duties of a servant or employee; to render service.
- To officially deliver (a legal notice, summons etc.).
- To be a servant for; to work for, to be employed by.
- To be a formal servant for (a god or deity); to worship in an official capacity.
- To attractively display something (especially a body part) as part of one's personal appearance.
- To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather.
- To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball, ping pong, badminton etc.
- To perform (a public obligation).
- To set down (food or drink) on the table to be eaten; to bring (food, drink) to a person.
- To copulate with (of male animals); to cover.
- To present an attractive personal appearance.
- To usefully take the place as, instead of something else.
- To provide crack cocaine (to), usually by selling, dealing, or distributing.
- To have a given use or purpose; to function for something or to do something.
- To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence).
- To evoke something (especially a person) with one's personal appearance.
- To be in military service.
- To make legal service upon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.)
- To work, to operate (a weapon).
- To wait upon (someone) at table; to set food and drink in front of, to help (someone) to food, meals etc.
noun
- An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
- The conduct, or course, of a game.
- A short sequence of action within a game.
- A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other resources.
- An instance of watching or listening to digital media.
- The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely, as for example lash, backlash, or slack.
- Movement (of a pattern of light etc.)
- An individual's performance in a sport or game.
- A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue.
- A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.
- Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
- Similar activity in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
- An attempt to move forward, as in a plan or strategy, for example by a business, investor, or political party.
- Sexual activity or sexual role-playing.
- A theatrical performance featuring actors.
verb
- To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless.
- Contrary to fact, to give an appearance of being.
- To be performed; (or of a film) to be shown.
- To manipulate, deceive, or swindle someone.
- To move to and fro.
- To produce music (or a specified song or musical style) using (a specified musical instrument).
- To compete against, in a game.
- To act; to behave; to practice deception.
- To perform in or at; to give performances in or at.
- To produce music using a musical instrument.
- To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate.
- To take part in amorous activity; to make love.
- To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
- To kid; to joke; say something for amusement.
- (in the scoring of games and sports) To be the opposing score to.
- To gamble.
- To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
- To produce music.
- To act or perform (a play).
- To bring into sportive or wanton action; to exhibit in action; to execute.
- To put in action or motion.
- To keep in play, as a hooked fish in order to land it.
- To use a device to watch or listen to the indicated recording.
- To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment.
adv
adj
noun
noun
- Any game played with a ball.
- A decisive outcome in regard to some ongoing situation; game over.
- Affair, issue, matter, subject, story, topic.
- A specific contest or match between teams playing such a game, in particular a baseball game.
- A sport played in the Aztec and Mayan civilizations; Mesoamerican ballgame.
noun
- A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
- A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.
- The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
- A situation suitable to perform some action.
- The order in which players are seated around the table.
- A status or rank.
- A place or location.
- A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
- An opinion, stand, or stance.
- A posture.
- A post of employment; a job.
- An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
verb
noun
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- An attempt, a try.
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- An act; the working or operation.
- A period of activity.
- Synonym: green light
- A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
- Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try
- The act of going.
adj
verb
- To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.)
- To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
- To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- To be spent or used up.
- To belong (somewhere).
- To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- To make the (specified) sound.
- To fit.
- To urinate or defecate.
- To tend (toward a result).
- To be lost.
- To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- I woke up just before the clock went.
- To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- Let's go halves on this.
- Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way
- To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- I went at him with a knife.
- To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group.
- To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- To attend.
- To be sold.
- To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- Synonyms: become, turn, change into
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- To sound; to make a noise.
- To leave; to move away.
- To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- To come to (a certain condition or state).
- To start; to begin (an action or process).
- To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate
- To attack.
- To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
- To date.
- Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
- Synonyms: function, work, operate
- To break down or decay.
- To be accepted.
- We've only gone twenty miles today.
- To be valid.
- To have a certain record.
- To take a turn, especially in a game.
- To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- To be out.
- To resort (to).
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- To yield or weigh.
- Those babies go five tons apiece.
- To be discarded or disposed of.
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- To lead (to a place); to give access to.
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- Anything goes around here.
- Why don’t you go with us?
- Let's go this way for a while.
- To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
- To fight or attack.
- How long can you go without water?
- To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
- To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- Expressing encouragement or approval.
- To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
- To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- To die.
- To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- To travel or pass along.
- To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
noun
- The entire field of play used in the game.
- The polyiamond made up of two triangles.
- A card of the diamonds suit.
- A gemstone made from this mineral.
- Something that resembles a diamond.
- A rhombus, especially when oriented so that its longer axis is vertical.
- A ring containing a diamond.
- A very pale blue color.
- The infield of a baseball field.
- A glimmering glass-like mineral that is an allotrope of carbon in which each atom is surrounded by four others in the form of a tetrahedron.
verb
adj
verb
noun
noun
- a specially marked horizontal area within which a game is played
- an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business
- a room in which a law court sits
- the sovereign and his advisers who are the governing power of a state
- the family and retinue of a sovereign or prince
- a hotel for motorists; provides direct access from rooms to parking area
- the residence of a sovereign or nobleman
- an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings
- respectful deference
verb
noun
- In many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object.
- A point scored in a game as a result of placing the object into the goal.
- A noun or noun phrase that receives the action of a verb. The subject of a passive verb or the direct object of an active verb. Also called a patient, target, or undergoer.
- The act of placing the object into the goal.
- A result that one is attempting to achieve.
verb
noun
- directions that define the way a game or sport is to be conducted
- a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior
- something regarded as a normative example
- prescribed guide for conduct or action
- (linguistics) a rule describing (or prescribing) a linguistic practice
- a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct
- the duration of a monarch's or government's power
- dominance or power through legal authority
- any one of a systematic body of regulations defining the way of life of members of a religious order
- a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system
- (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems
- measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths
verb
noun
- The part of the playing field or board over which a player or team has control.
- An area of subject matter, knowledge, or experience.
- A geographic area under control of a single governing entity such as state or municipality; an area whose borders are determined by the scope of political power rather than solely by natural features such as rivers and ridges.
- A market segment or scope of professional practice over which an organization or type of practitioner has exclusive rights.
- One of three of Australia's federated entities, located in the country's north and southeast, with fewer powers than a state and created by an act of Parliament rather than by the Constitution: Northern Territory, Australian Capital Territory and Jervis Bay Territory.
- A large extent or tract of land; for example a region, country or district.
- An area that an animal of a particular species consistently defends against its conspecifics.
- A location or logical space which someone owns or controls.
- A geographic area that a person or organization is responsible for in the course of work.
- One of three of Canada's federated entities, located in the country's Arctic, with fewer powers than a province and created by an act of Parliament rather than by the Constitution: Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.
noun
- The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.
- The merest trifle; a straw.
- A person attempting to join a fraternity or sorority as part of a rush.
- The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.
- A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.
- A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.
- General haste.
- A sudden attack; an onslaught.
- A surge.
- Any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus, or the family Juncaceae, having hollow or pithy stems and small flowers, and often growing in marshes or near water.
- A sudden forward motion.
- A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.
- A wick.
- The strategy of attacking an opponent with a large swarm of weak units, rather than spending time developing their abilities.
- A rapid, noisy flow.
verb
- To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt play.
- To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.
- To swiftly attack without warning.
- To play at a faster tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually increase tempo while one is playing.
- To dribble rapidly.
- To hurry; to perform a task with great haste.
- To make a swift or sudden attack.
- To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.
- To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority, often involving a hazing or initiation process.
- To cause to move or act with unusual haste.
- To transport or carry quickly.
- To attack (an opponent) with a large swarm of units.
adj
noun
verb
- To roll the dice necessary to create a character for a game, especially a role-playing game.
- To make something into a particular shape, especially cylindrical or fold-like.
- To raise (a car window, rolling door, or rolling security barrier).
- To arrive by vehicle, usually by car.
- To pack up into a bundle or bindle.
intj
noun
- A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.
- A rebound.
- The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink.
- A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards.
- Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.
- The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
- A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.
- A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.
- A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.
- Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.
- The side of a ship.
- A level or stage having a particular layout.
verb
- To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.
- To capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party
- To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
- To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation
- To cover with boards or boarding.
- To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
- Antonyms: alight, disembark
- To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
- To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.
noun
- In various games, the fielding or hitting of a ball just after it strikes the ground.
- A person successfully approached in this manner for romance or sex.
- In a record player, an electromagnetic component that converts the needle vibrations into an electrical signal.
- Impromptu or ad hoc, especially of sports games and teams made up of randomly selected players.
- The act of a challenging party or candidate winning an electoral district held by an incumbent party or candidate. See also gain
- The rate at which a motor vehicle picks up speed.
- The act of answering a telephone.
- A relatively minor shot filmed or recorded after the fact to augment previous footage.
- The act of collecting and taking away something or someone, usually in a vehicle.
- An instance of approaching someone and engaging in romantic flirtation and courting with the intent to pursue romance, a date, or a sexual encounter.
- A pickup truck.
- A time during which passengers, such as school children, are picked up.
- electromagnetic coil receiver of metal string oscillations
- The condition of being picked up, or taken up; adoption by some entity.
- An item that can be picked up by the player, conferring some benefit or effect; a power-up.
noun
- The act of passing a ball etc. to another player.
- A form of juggling where several people pass props between each other, usually clubs or rings.
- The ability of a person to be regarded as a member of an identity group or category different from their own.
- The fact of going past; a movement from one place to another or a change from one state to another.
- Death, dying; the end of something.
- The act of approving a bill etc.
adj
noun
- A deceptive play whereby a player with a strong hand bets weakly or passively.
- A sturdy sack filled with sand, generally used in large numbers to make defensive walls against flooding, bullets, or shrapnel.
- An engraver's leather cushion, etc.
- A small bag filled with sand and used as a cudgel.
verb
- To strike someone with a sandbag or other object to disable or render unconscious.
- To construct a barrier of sandbags around.
- To pretend to drink early on so that, as the night draws on, one can drink everybody else "under the table".
- To conceal or misrepresent one's true position, potential, or intent in order to gain an advantage.
- To deceive someone by pretending to be weak, or (card games) by pretending to have a weak hand.
noun
- The cue ball in cue games.
- Any butterfly of the subfamily Pierinae in the family Pieridae.
- The sclera, white of the eye.
- The enclosed part of a letter of the alphabet, especially when handwritten.
- White wine.
- Cocaine
- A white bean
- A white pigment.
- The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).
- The snow- or ice-covered "green" in snow golf.
- A person of European descent with light-coloured skin.
- White coffee
- A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
- The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot.
- The color/colour of snow or milk; the colour of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
verb
adj
- Alwhite, pertaining to white armor.
- Affected by leucism.
- Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc.
- Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
- The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.
- Characterised by the presence of snow.
- Lacking coloration (tan) from ultraviolet light; not tanned.
- Not containing characters; see white space.
- Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
- Containing cream, milk, or creamer.
- Relatively light or pale in colour.
- Honourable, fair; decent.
- Made from immature leaves and shoots.
- Said of a symbol or character outline, not solid, not filled with color. Compare black (“said of a character or symbol filled with color”).
- Of or relating to Caucasians, people of European descent with light-coloured skin.
- Designated for use by Caucasians.
- Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.
- Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.
noun
- (sports) the act of touching a player in a game (which changes their status in the game)
- a label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc.
- a label associated with something for the purpose of identification
- a small piece of cloth
- a game in which one child chases the others; the one who is caught becomes the next chaser
verb
noun
- A stage or level of a game.
- A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
- A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.
- A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
- A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
- A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
- In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
- A circular dance.
- Rotation, as in office; succession.
- A circular or repetitious route.
- A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical projectile ball of a smoothbore firearm. Compare round shot and solid shot.
- One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing or wrestling match, during which contestants compete before being signaled to stop.
- A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
- An assembly; a group; a circle.
- A round-top.
- A round of beef.
- A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
- A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
- A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
- A stage in a competition.
- The hindquarters of a bovine.
- A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
- A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
- The play after each deal.
- A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.
- A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.
- A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
- One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
verb
- To go round, pass, go past.
- To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
- To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number.
- To shape something into a curve.
- To turn past a boundary.
- To advance to home plate.
- To encircle; to encompass.
- To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
- To do ward rounds.
- To become shaped into a curve.
- To finish; to complete; to fill out.
adj
- Lacking sharp angles; having gentle curves.
- Complete, whole, not lacking.
- Large in magnitude.
- Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction.
- Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction.
- Plump.
- Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.
- Well-written and well-characterized; complex and reminiscent of a real person.
- Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
- Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
- Vaulted.
- Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing.
- Pronounced with the lips drawn together; rounded.
noun
- An edge or line marking an edge of the playing field.
- The bounds, confines, or limits between immaterial things (such as one’s comfort zone, privacy, or professional sphere and the realm beyond).
- The dividing line or location between two areas.
- An event whereby the ball is struck and either touches or passes over a boundary (with or without bouncing), usually resulting in an award of 4 (four) or 6 (six) runs respectively for the batting team.
- (of a set) The set of points in the closure of a set S, not belonging to the interior of that set.
noun
- An arrangement of players designed to facilitate certain plays.
- An arrangement of moving troops, ships, or aircraft, such as a wedge, line abreast, or echelon. Often "in formation".
- A structure made of two categories, two functors from the first to the second category, and a transformation from one of the functors to the other.
- The act of assembling a group or structure.
- The process during which something comes into being and gains its characteristics.
- Something possessing structure or form.
- A layer of rock of common origin.
- A grouping of military units or smaller formations under a command, such as a brigade, division, wing, etc.
- The process of influencing or guiding a person to a deeper understanding of a particular vocation.
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bringing down
losing one's life
silly person
call option
extolment
poke.
military history
Karelian
training bib
with certainty.
Disgusting
blah.
top of the head
innocently
to apply.
dyspepsia
etude
picture book
tailoring
walls have ears
there, there
whichever
to become tense
that area
mouthpiece
soothing
coldness
financial situation
unjust
prepayment
be that as it may