Play the game

Definition

game / geÇm / n ၁။ [C] ကစားနည္း။ popular children's games ❍ board games like chess and Monopoly ❍ a game of chance/ skill ❍ play a game of chess/ football/ hide-and-seek ❍ Lets have a game of table tennis. ❍ SPORT ၂။ games [pl] (က) ေျပးခုန္ပစ္ အားကစား။ Mary never played games at school. (ခ) (also the Games ) ေျပးခုန္ပစ္ အားကစားၿပိဳင္ပြဲ။ အားကစား ပြဲေတာ္။ the Olympic Games. ၃။ [C] ၿပိဳင္ပြဲစဥ္ တစ္ခုမွ ပြဲငယ္တစ္ပြဲ။ ပြဲငယ္။ (one) game all, two games all, etc (ie each player or team has won one game, two games, etc) ❍ Game, set and match (to Sampras) (ie The tennis match has been won (by him)). ❍ We need another twenty points to make game (ie in bridge). ❍ They lost the first game of the second set (ie in tennis). ၄။ [C] ေဆာ့ကစားျခင္း။ play games with the dog. ၅။ [C] ( infml ) (က) အကြက္။ လွည့္ကြက္။ So that's his (little) game (ie Now I know what he has been planning)! ❍ I want none of your games! (ခ) လုပ္ငန္း။ လုပ္ကြက္။ the publishing game ❍ the game of politics ❍ How long have you been in this game? See also WAITING GAME ၆။ [U] သားေကာင္။ ေတာ ေကာင္သား။ game pie. See also FAIR GAME adj ~ ( for sth/ to do sth ) စြန္႔စားလိုေသာ။ ရင္ဆိုင္လိုေသာ။ ‘Who'll climb up to get it?’ ‘I'm game (to try). ’ ❍ He's always game for an adventure. ❏ game bird n သားေကာင္ငွက္။ ❏ game cock n တိုက္ၾကက္။ ❏ the game is not worth the candle [ IDM ] ( saying ) ထမ္းပိုးထက္ လက္ခႀကီးသည္။ ❏ the game is up [ IDM ] ဘူးေပၚသလို ေပၚသည္။ ❏ gamely adv စြန္႔စြန္႔စားစား။ Despite being injured he kept on gamely to the end of the match. ❏ game plan n (အားကစား၊ ႏိုင္ငံေရး၊ စီးပြားေရး) တိုက္ကြက္။ ❏ game reserve (also Brit game park , US game preserve ) n ေဘးမဲ့ေတာ။ (ေရွး) ေရႊႀကိဳးသတ္ေတာ (သို႔) (ေက်းငွက္၊ ေတာေကာင္မ်ား တမင္ေမြးထား ေသာ) ကိုယ္ပိုင္ေတာ။ ❏ game show n (သီးသန္႔ၿပိဳင္ပြဲဝင္မ်ား (သို႔) ပရိသတ္ထဲမွ ပါဝင္ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ႏိုင္ေသာ ဉာဏ္စမ္းပေဟဠိ စသည္) ႐ုပ္ျမင္သံၾကား ၿပိဳင္ပြဲအစီအစဥ္။ ❏ a game that two can play; two can play at that game [ IDM ] သူကမဲ့လွ်င္ ကိုယ္က ရြဲ႕ျပႏိုင္သည္ပင္။ အိုးရြဲ႕ ကို စေလာင္းရြဲ႕ႏွင့္ဖံုး။ ❏ game-warden n ကိုယ္ပိုင္ေတာကို ထိန္းသိမ္း ေစာင့္ ေရွာက္သူ။ ❏ give the game away [ IDM ] လွ်ဳိ႕ဝွက္ခ်က္ကို အမွတ္တမဲ့ ေဖာ္မိျခင္း၊ လႊတ္ခနဲေျပာမိျခင္း။ ❏ (be) on the game ( sl esp Brit) [ IDM ] ျပည့္တန္ဆာ လုပ္စားသည္။ ❏ play sb's game [ IDM ] သူဆင္သည့္ အကြက္အတိုင္း ဝင္မိသည္။ She didn't realize that by complaining she was only playing Peter's game. ❏ play the game [ IDM ] တရားသည္။ မွ်တသည္။ You can't leave me to amuse the children all on my own __ that's not playing the game! game 2 / geÇm / adj ( dated infml ) (ေျခ)မသန္စြမ္းေသာ။ Compare GAMMY

Examples

1. Monopoly is a game for all the family.
2. [card/board/party game] : Do you know any good party games?
3. [computer/video game] : The kids all love playing computer games.
4. The children were playing noisy games in the garden.
5. They take the game of cricket very seriously here.
6. He has trained hard to improve his game.
7. [the English/Italian etc game] : Hard tackling is part of the English game.
8. He won the money in a poker game.
9. Are you going to watch the game on TV tonight?
10. [game of] : Let’s have a game of volleyball.
11. He won the first set 6 games to 4.
12. The Olympic Games
13. Miss Plumtree takes us for games.
14. Marriage is just a game to them.
15. They are playing political games with people’s safety.
16. In this business
17. you have to know the rules of the game.
18. He worked in the building game all his life.