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gam·ing

(gā′mĭng)

1. Gambling, especially casino gambling.

2. The playing of games, especially video games.

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gaming

(ˈɡeɪmɪŋ)

(Gambling, except Cards)

a. gambling on games of chance

b. (as modifier): gaming house; gaming losses.

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

gam•ing

(ˈgeɪ mɪŋ)

n.

1. gambling.

2. the playing of games, esp. those developed to help solve problems.

[1495–1505]

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Noun

gaming - 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"

gambling, play

diversion, recreation - an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates; "scuba diving is provided as a diversion for tourists"; "for recreation he wrote poetry and solved crossword puzzles"; "drug abuse is often regarded as a form of recreation"

sporting life - active interest in gambling on sports events

wager, bet - the act of gambling; "he did it on a bet"

gambling game, game of chance - a game that involves gambling

vice - a specific form of evildoing; "vice offends the moral standards of the community"

throw - casting an object in order to determine an outcome randomly; "he risked his fortune on a throw of the dice"

Translations

gioco d'azzardo

gaming

[ˈgeɪmɪŋ]

A. N → juego m

B. CPD gaming house N → casa f de juego
gaming laws NPL → leyes fpl reguladoras del juego

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

gaming

[ˈgeɪmɪŋ]

(= gambling) → jeu m, jeux mpl d'argent

(with computer games) → jeux mpl

modif [laws] → des jeux; [industry] → du jeu gaming licence, gaming tablegaming licence n → autorisation f de pratiquer des jeux d'argentgaming table n → table f de jeu

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

gaming

n = gambling; gaming machine → Spielautomat m; gaming console (Comput) → Spiel(e)konsole f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

gaming

[ˈgeɪmɪŋ] n (frm) (old) → gioco d'azzardo

gaming

n (euph) juego (apostando)

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In fact, it almost upset my balance, and I entered the gaming rooms with an angry feeling at my heart.

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I'll be my brother the archdeacon, if that keeps me from gaming; gaming by day, gaming by night, living at play, dying at play, and gaming away my soul after my shirt.

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It produced the sum necessary to pay his gaming debts, and saved him from exposure to his uncle and another smashing of the will.

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In fact, fortune changed; and as the king began to lose what he had won, he was not sorry to find an excuse for playing Charlemagne--if we may use a gaming phrase of whose origin we confess our ignorance.

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And in the wretched state of his own finances, there was a very powerful motive for secrecy, in addition to his fear of discovery by Lydia's relations, for it had just transpired that he had left gaming debts behind him to a very considerable amount.

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Gaming, the vice which ran so high among all classes

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He observed, "that among the diversions of our nobility and gentry, I had mentioned gaming: he desired to know at what age this entertainment was usually taken up, and when it was laid down; how much of their time it employed; whether it ever went so high as to affect their fortunes; whether mean, vicious people, by their dexterity in that art, might not arrive at great riches, and sometimes keep our very nobles in dependence, as well as habituate them to vile companions, wholly take them from the improvement of their minds, and force them, by the losses they received, to learn and practise that infamous dexterity upon others?"

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She looked about her with due consideration, and found almost everything in his favour: a park, a real park, five miles round, a spacious modern-built house, so well placed and well screened as to deserve to be in any collection of engravings of gentlemen's seats in the kingdom, and wanting only to be completely new furnished--pleasant sisters, a quiet mother, and an agreeable man himself--with the advantage of being tied up from much gaming at present by a promise to his father, and of being Sir Thomas hereafter.