士

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (士):
* → Japanese: 士(し) (shi)
* → Korean: 사(士) (sa)
* → Vietnamese: sĩ (士)

Pictogram (象形) – a war axe. Later, it took the meaning of "soldier" and eventually "officer, intellectual". Partly related to 王 since in at least two characters it should represent a ritual axe, perhaps made of jade: in fact, it is related to 圭 and 金 despite their appearence.
;"bachelor, man, male"
:*Reminiscent of Austroasiatic synonyms like Old Khmer si (“male”) or MK words for "man, male" like *ʔŋsiil, *ensir, *kəsəy on the Malay Peninsula; Schuessler (2007) noted that foreign *-r sometimes left traces in OC initial complex. These relations, if, valid, would keep 士₁ "bachelor, man, male" distinct from 士₂ "servant, retainer, officer, scholar".
;"take or give an office, serve", "servant", "retainer", "officer", "scholar"
:*Schuessler (2007) noted that one could naturally assume the semantic development "male > man > servant > to serve" in order to posit that 士₁ "bachelor, man, male" is the same word as 士₂ "servant, retainer, officer, scholar". Yet, the exopassive derivation 事 (OC *ʔsrɯs, *zrɯs) "assignment, affair, thing" and Tibeto-Burman counterparts demonstrated no association with "man, maleness"; & "male" hardly derives from "to serve".
:*Therefore, Schuessler derived these forms from 理 (OC *rɯʔ) "envoy, jail official, matchmaker" & proposed ultimate Austroasiatic origins. In terms of phonology, MC *dʐ- normally does not occur with *l- and *ʂ in an ST word-family, apparently confirming a non-ST provenance; however, MC *dʐ- here could go back to OC *s-r- (unlike MC *ʂ-, which is from OC *sr)
:*Subsequenly, Schuessler posited either relation to Austroasiatic or OC loan into Tibeto-Burman as Proto-Tibeto-Burman *ʔ-dzəj (“send on an errant”) (Matisoff, 2003), whence Burmese စာ (ca, “thing”) & Tibetan རྫས (rdzas, “thing, matter, object”) (Gong, 1999). Even so, Tibeto-Burman cognates of this etymon and 所 (suǒ) are difficult to distinguish.

cog

(xiangqi) adviser; guard; minister: 🩨 (usually only on the black side, in some sets on both red and black sides)


reading

en-noun

reading (countable and uncountable, plural readings)

From Middle English reding, redynge, redunge, from Old English rǣding (“reading”), equivalent to read + -ing.

(go, uncountable) The act or process of imagining sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.

読み

act or process of imagining sequences of moves


pula

pula (nominative singular)
pule (nominative plural)
puli (genitive singular)
pul (genitive plural)
puli (genitive plural)
puli (dative singular)
pulom (dative plural)
pulę (accusative singular)
pule (accusative plural)
pulą (instrumental singular)
pulami (instrumental plural)
puli (locative singular)
pulach (locative plural)
pulo (singular vocative)
pule (plural vocative)

(card games) pool, stakes, the pot (money available to be won)


pin

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: pins

→ Polish: pin

→ Spanish: pin

→ Swahili: pini

→ Swedish: pin, pins

From Middle English pinne, from Old English pinn (“pin, peg, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *pinnaz, *pinnō, *pint- (“protruding point, peak, peg, pin, nail”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- (“protruding object, pointed peg, nail, edge”). Related to pen (“enclosure”).
Cognate with Dutch pin (“peg, pin”), Low German pin, pinne (“pin, point, nail, peg”), German Pinn, Pinne (“pin, tack, peg”), Bavarian Pfonzer, Pfunzer (“sharpened point”), Danish pind (“pin, pointed stick”), Norwegian pinn (“stick”), Swedish pinne (“peg, rod, stick”), Icelandic pinni (“pin”). More at pintle.
No relation to classical Latin pinna (“fin, flipper, wing-like appendage, wing, feather”), which was extended to mean "ridge, peak, point" (compare pinnacle), and often confused with Latin penna (“wing, feather”). More at feather and pen (Etymology 3).

cog

professional wrestling
professional wrestling

(wrestling, professional wrestling) The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.

A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.

кегла

slender object specially designed for use in bowling

(chess) Either a scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to being taken instead, or one where moving a piece is impossible as it would place the king in check.

The shot landed right on the pin.

(curling) The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)

nänni

curling: spot at the exact centre of the house

(bodybuilding, slang) An injection of PEDs.


pin

en-verb

pin (third-person singular simple present pins, present participle pinning, simple past and past participle pinned)

pins (present singular third-person)
pinning (participle present)
pinned (participle past)
pinned (past)

(chess, usually passive voice) To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.

(backgammon) To move a piece onto a blot, preventing the piece from further movement.


overlay

overlay (third-person singular simple present overlays, present participle overlaying, simple past and past participle overlaid or overlayed)

overlays (present singular third-person)
overlaying (participle present)
overlaid (participle past)
overlaid (past)
overlayed (participle past)
overlayed (past)

/ˌəʊ.vəˈleɪ/

From Middle English overleyen, from Old English oferleċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *obarlaggjan, from Proto-Germanic *uberlagjaną, equivalent to over- + lay. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uurläze, úurlääse, Dutch overleggen, German Low German overleggen, överleggen, German überlegen, Swedish överlägga, Norwegian overlegge. Compare overlie.

[…] he has 'overlaid' his book, and has not succeeded in 'getting round' by bets against the other horses.

1890, The Twentieth Century, volume 27, page 934:

(transitive, gambling) To bet too much money on.


overlay

/ˈəʊ.vəˌleɪ/

(gambling) Odds which are set higher than expected or warranted. Favorable odds.


象

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (象):
* → Japanese: 象(ぞう) (zō); 象(しょう) (shō)
* → Korean: 상(象) (sang)
* → Vietnamese: tượng (象)

→ Common Turkic: *yaŋan

→ Old Uyghur: 𐽶𐽰𐽺𐽷𐽰 (yaŋa)

→ Western Yugur: jaŋan

→? Bulgar:

→? Chuvash: сӑлан (sălan)

→? Proto-Slavic: *slonъ

→ Kalmyk: зан (zan)

→ Mongolian: заан (zaan)

→ Proto-Tai: *ɟaːŋꟲ (“elephant”)

Lao: ຊ້າງ (sāng)

Lü: ᦋᦱᧂᧉ (tsaang²)

Northern Thai: ᨩ᩶ᩣ᩠ᨦ (cang)

Saek: ซาง

Shan: ၸၢင်ႉ (tsâ̰ang)

Tai Dam: ꪋ꫁ꪱꪉ

Tai Nüa: ᥓᥣᥒᥳ (tsȧang)

Thai: ช้าง (cháang)

desc

→ Proto-Lolo-Burmese: *tsaŋ (“elephant”)

Burmese: ဆင် (hcang)

→ Proto-Monic: *ciiŋ ("elephant")

Mon: စိၚ် (coiŋ)

→ Proto-Vietic: *ʔa-ɟaːŋ (“elephant”)

/t͡sʰuɔŋ²⁴²/

/t͡sʰuɔŋ²⁴²/

Pictogram (象形) - pictographic representation of an elephant. ⺈ represents the trunk, 𫩏 represents the head, and 𧰨 represents the body.
This character is used to represent two semantic fields ‘elephant; tusk’ and ‘to outline; to depict; to delineate; to represent; to resemble; to map’. Both fields are found from the earliest layers of the edited literature onwards, whereas only the first meaning is amply attested in oracle bone inscriptions.
Traditionally, the two senses are treated as related, with the sense of ‘to depict; to resemble’ considered a derivative of the sense of ‘elephant’. The derivation from the ‘elephant’ meaning to the ‘likeness’ meaning is explained in Han Feizi First attested in c. 221 BCE: “Men rarely see living elephants. As they come by the skeleton of a dead elephant, they imagine its living form according to its features. Therefore it comes to pass that whatever people use for imagining the real is called 象.”
Modern etymology studies on Old Chinese have challenged this opinion.
As for the ‘elephant; tusk’ sense, this is a widely used area word in East and Southeast Asia. Literature opinions differ on the origin and immediate relationship of this Chinese word; some (e.g. Schuessler, 2007) believe the Chinese form is a loanword from a Southern language, since it is unlikely that peoples all over Southeast Asia and the Himalayan foothills would borrow a word from Northern China to denote an indigenous animal. Others believe the direction of borrowing is reversed (i.e. Tai-Kadai borrowing from Chinese), and that Chinese 象 should be compared with Tibetan གླང (glang), གླང་ཆེན (glang chen, “elephant”) arising from a common Proto-Sino-Tibetan *glaŋ (“ox, bull; elephant”), which may ultimately have an Austroasiatic origin (Behr, 2004). The second viewpoint is supported by the early attestation of this character and the archaeological findings of the historical ranges of elephants. However, Schuessler disputes that second viewpoint and links ST *glaŋ to 犅 (OC *klaːŋ, “ox, bull”).
See below for a tentative borrowing history of the various forms of this general area word.

inh

(xiangqi) elephant: 🩩 (on the black side) (Classifier: 隻／只 c)


bet

From 16th-century criminal slang, perhaps from Middle English bet (“something better, advantage, luck”); or from abet, from Middle English abet, abette, from Old French abet (“incitement to evil”), from Old French abeter (“to entice”), from a- (“to”) + beter (“hound on, urge, to bait”); ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *baitijan (“to bait, entice”), related to Old English bǣtan (“to bait”). More at abet.

der

Dylan owes Fletcher $30 from an unsuccessful bet.

A wager, an agreement between two parties that a stake (usually money) will be paid by the loser to the winner (the winner being the one who correctly forecast the outcome of an event).


bet

en-verb

bet (third-person singular simple present bets, present participle betting, simple past and past participle bet or betted)

bets (present singular third-person)
betting (participle present)
bet (participle past)
bet (past)
betted (participle past)
betted (past)

John a Gaunt loved him well, and betted much money on his head.

c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

I'll bet you two to one I'll make him do it.

1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Deacon's Masterpiece or The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay:

(transitive, ditransitive) To stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event; to wager.

رَاهَنَ

to stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event

(poker) To place money into the pot in order to require others do the same, usually only used for the first person to place money in the pot on each round.


bet

(informal) a sport betting website or app


bet

Borrowed from French bête (“beast, animal”). Compare "faire la bête" (make the bête) for losing the deal in the old French trick-taking card game of l'Homme / Bête. Attested since 1733.

bor+

(card games) a penalty (especially in the game of Vira)

gå bet i ett kontrakt

gå 5 bet

(card games, bridge, in some expression) (going) set, (going) down (failing to make a contract)


apparatus

en-noun

apparatus (plural apparatuses or apparatusses or apparatus or (both rare) apparatûs or apparatūs or (hypercorrect) apparati)

apparatuses (plural)
apparatusses (plural)
apparatus (plural)
apparatûs (plural rare)
apparatūs (plural rare)
apparati (hypercorrect plural rare)

/æp.əˈɹɑː.təs/

Borrowed from Latin apparātus. Doublet of apparat.

Rube Goldberg machine
Rube Goldberg machine

(video games) A complex, highly modified weapon (typically not a firearm); a weaponized “Rube Goldberg machine.”


we

head

we (first-person plural nominative case, objective case us, possessive determiner our, possessive pronoun ours, reflexive ourselves, reflexive singular ourself)

us (objective)
our (determiner possessive)
ours (possessive pronoun without-noun)
ourselves (reflexive)
ourself (reflexive singular)

Jamaican Creole: wi

Sranan Tongo: wi

From Middle English we, from Old English wē (“we”), from Proto-West Germanic *wiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *wīz, *wiz (“we”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéy (“we (plural)”). Cognate with Scots wee, we (“we”), North Frisian we (“we”), West Frisian wy (“we”), Low German wi (“we”), Dutch we, wij (“we”), German wir (“we”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian vi (“we”), Icelandic vér, við (“we”), Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬉𐬨 (vaēm), Sanskrit वयम् (vayám).

inh

the devil we know is better than the devil we don't know

the real treasure is the friends we made along the way

what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive

what tangled webs we weave when first we practice to deceive

(bridge) The side which is keeping score.


race

en-noun

race (countable and uncountable, plural races)

From Middle English race, partially from Old English rǣs (“a race, swift or violent running, rush, onset”), from Proto-West Germanic *rās; and partially from Old Norse rás (“a running, race”); both from Proto-Germanic *rēsō (“a course”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁s- (“to flow, rush”). Cognate with Middle Low German râs (“a strong current”), Dutch ras (“a strong whirling current”), Danish ræs, Norwegian and Swedish ras, Norwegian rås.

cog

Your odds are sometimes significantly better with video keno […] But because video keno plays so much faster, you're likely to lose more money over a given period. Live keno races start every 10 minutes, but you can make 100 bets on a video version in the same amount of time.

2022, Kevin Blackwood, Swain Scheps, “Striking the Mother Lode: Keno and Bingo”, in Casino Gambling For Dummies, 2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons:


grind

en-verb

grind (third-person singular simple present grinds, present participle grinding, simple past and past participle ground or grinded)

grinds (present singular third-person)
grinding (participle present)
ground (participle past)
ground (past)
grinded (participle past)
grinded (past)
grind (infinitive)
grind (infinitive)

From Middle English grynden, from Old English grindan, from Proto-West Germanic *grindan, from Proto-Germanic *grindaną.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian gríende, griene (“to grind, mill”), Dutch grinden (“to grind”, rare) and grind (“gravel, shingle”), Albanian grind (“to brawl, fight”).

the mill cannot grind with water that is past

These enemies give lots of loot when killed, so many players fight them to grind for resources.

The first level of the game is the best place to grind extra lives.

Similarly, nearly all massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), such as Dungeons & Dragons Online, feature grind: Players repeat tasks, or often “quests”, to gain in-game currency to spend on weapons or other ancillary items.

2013, Will Luton, Free-to-Play: Making Money From Games You Give Away, New Riders, →ISBN, page 38:

To extend the variety past that, you'll need to unlock new units in each class, meaning you have to grind through the rather lengthy process of using every one of your class’ weapons and skills significantly across several matches.

2015 February 14, Steven Strom, “Evolve Review: Middle of the food chain”, in Ars Technica:

(video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.


lay

en-adj

lay (comparative more lay, superlative most lay)

more lay (comparative)
most lay (superlative)

Inherited from Middle English lay, from Old French lai, from Latin laicus, from Ancient Greek λαϊκός (laïkós). Doublet of laic.

a lay suit


eye

en-noun

eye (plural eyes or (archaic or dialectal) eyen or (archaic) eyne)

eyes (plural)
eyen (archaic dialectal plural)
eyne (archaic plural)

Sranan Tongo: ai

From Middle English eye, eie, yë, eighe, eyghe, yȝe, eyȝe, from Old English ēage (“eye”), from Proto-West Germanic *augā, from Proto-Germanic *augô (“eye”) (compare Scots ee, West Frisian each, Dutch oog, German Auge, Danish øje, Norwegian Bokmål øye, Norwegian Nynorsk auga, Swedish öga), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃okʷ-, *h₃ekʷ- (“eye; to see”).
Other Indo-European cognates include Latin oculus (whence English oculus), Lithuanian akìs, Old Church Slavonic око (oko), Albanian sy, Ancient Greek ὄψ (óps, “(poetic) eye; face”) and ὄσσε (ósse, “eyes”), Armenian ակն (akn), Avestan 𐬀𐬱𐬌 (aši, “eyes”), Sanskrit अक्षि (ákṣi). Related to ogle.
The uncommon plural form eyen is from Middle English eyen, from Old English ēaġan, nominative and accusative plural of ēaġe (“eye”).

cog

an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind

better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick

better than a poke in the eye with a rusty nail

better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick

better than a poke in the eye with a shitty stick

eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God

it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye

(go) An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones.


increment

/ˈɪŋkɹɪmn̩t/

From Middle English encrement, increment, from Latin incrēmentum, from incrēscō (whence increase), from in- + crēscō (“grow”). Equivalent to increase + -ment.

(chess) The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.


train

en-verb

train (third-person singular simple present trains, present participle training, simple past and past participle trained)

trains (present singular third-person)
training (participle present)
trained (participle past)
trained (past)

[t̠ɹ̠̊˔e̞ɪn]

From Middle English trayne (“train”), from Old French train (“a delay, a drawing out”), from traïner (“to pull out, to draw”), from Vulgar Latin *traginō, from *tragō, from Latin trahō (“to pull, to draw”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tregʰ- (“to pull, draw, drag”). The verb was derived from the noun in Middle English.

der

I got a twix on the 128 version being fixed and trained by Mad Max at M2K BBS 208-587-7636 in Mountain Home Idaho. He fixes many games and puts them on his board. One of my sources for games and utils.

2000, Sensei David O.E. Mohr - Lord Ronin from Q-Link, “WTB:"The Last V-8" C128 game -name correction”, in comp.sys.cbm (Usenet):

In the mid-1980s, demoparties were also copyparties, where the first so called hot releases of cracked and trained games changed hands. However, illegal software copying later disappeared […]

2021, Mark J. P. Wolf, Encyclopedia of Video Games:

(transitive, video games) To create a trainer (cheat patch) for; to apply cheats to (a game).


camera

en-noun

camera (plural cameras or (rare) cameræ or (rare) camerae)

cameras (plural)
cameræ (plural rare)
camerae (plural rare)

Tok Pisin: kamera

→ Arabic: كاميرا (kāmērā)

→ Assamese: কেমেৰা (kemera)

→ Bengali: ক্যামেরা (kêmera)

→ Burmese: ကင်မရာ (kangma.ra)

→ Catalan: càmera

→ French: caméra
→ Turkish: kamera

→ Gujarati: કેમેરા (kemerā)

→ Hindi: कैमरा (kaimrā)

→ Hungarian: kamera

→ Irish: ceamara

→ Hausa: kyamara

desctree

→ Japanese: カメラ (kamera)
→ Hokkien: kha-mé-lah

→ Kannada: ಕ್ಯಾಮೆರಾ (kyāmerā)

→ Korean: 카메라 (kamera)

→ Luhya: ekamera

→ Manx: camerey

→ Malay: kamera

→ Maori: kāmera

→ Marathi: कॅमेरा (kĕmerā)

→ Nepali: क्यामेरा (kyāmerā)

→ Norman: caméra, quéméreu

→ Occitan: camerà

→ Punjabi: ਕਮਰਾ (kamrā)

→ Pashto: کامره (kāmrá), کېمره (kemrá)

→ Persian: کامرا (kâmerâ)

→ Romanian: cameră

→ Scottish Gaelic: camara

→ Swahili: kamera

→ Tamil: கேமரா (kēmarā)

→ Telugu: కెమెరా (kemerā)

→ Urdu: کیمرہ (kaimra)

→ Welsh: camera

→ Yoruba: kámẹ́rà

Learned borrowing from Latin camera (“chamber or bedchamber”), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”), of Old Iranian origin, from Proto-Iranian *kamarā- (“something curved”), from *kamárati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kmárati, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em- (“to bend, curve”). Doublet of chamber.(device): A clipping of camera obscura, from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), because the first cameras used a pinhole and a dark room.

der

If you're building a third-person game with enclosed or tight spaces, try to figure out up front what camera problems you will likely encounter. Use this identification process to influence the early building process.

2003, Tom Meigs, Ultimate game design: building game worlds:

I'm talking about the way the camera flies up above the skater when you leap into the air. No one had done it before.

2006, Patrick O'Luanaigh, Game Design Complete:

(computer graphics, video games) The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation.


leave

From Middle English leven, from Old English lǣfan (“to leave”), from Proto-West Germanic *laibijan, from Proto-Germanic *laibijaną (“to let stay, leave”), causative of *lībaną (“to stay, remain”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to stick; fat”).
Cognate with Old Frisian lēva (“to leave”), Old Saxon lēvian, Old High German leiban (“to leave”), Old Norse leifa (“to leave over”) (whence Icelandic leifa (“to leave food uneaten”)), lifna (“to be left”) (whence Danish levne). More at lave, belive.
The noun is attested since the 19th century, with earliest references to billiards.

cog

Having counted 38 points he tried a beautiful massé out of the corner, hit the first ball just a trifle too hard and kissed his own ball off just when victory seemed to be his. The leave was unfortunate for Ives. Slosson played brilliantly and ran the game out, a close winner, with 22 points.

1890 February 27, “Slosson’s Close Shave”, in New York Times:

(billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or only poor ones).


paint

en-noun

paint (countable and uncountable, plural paints)

From Middle English peynten, from Old French peintier, paincter, itself from paint, the past participle of paindre, from Latin pingō (“to paint”) (perfect passive participle pictus). Displaced native Old English tēafor (“paint”) and *tīefran (“to paint”).

(poker, slang) A face card (king, queen, or jack).


card

card (countable and uncountable, plural cards)

→ Bengali: কার্ড (karḍo)

→ Burmese: ကတ် (kat)

→ Chinese: 卡 (kǎ)

→ Gujarati: કાર્ડ (kārḍ)

→ Hausa: kati

→ Hindi: कार्ड (kārḍ)

→ Italian: card

→ Japanese: カード (kādo)

→ Korean: 카드 (kadeu)

→ Malay: kad

→ Pashto: کارډ (kārḍ)

Pitcairn-Norfolk: kaad

→ Sinhalese: කාඩ් (kāḍ)

→ Swahili: kadi

→ Tagalog: kard

→ Urdu: کارڈ (kārḍ)

From Middle English carde (“playing card”), from Old French carte, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “paper, papyrus”). Doublet of chart.

der

He played cards with his friends.

(in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.


bug

First attested in this form around 1620 (referring to a bedbug), from earlier bugge (“beetle”), a conflation of two words:
# Middle English bugge (“scarecrow, hobgoblin”), perhaps from obsolete Welsh bwg ("ghost, hobgoblin"; compare Welsh bwgwl ("threat", older "fear")) or from Proto-Germanic *bugja- (“swollen up, thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”) (compare Norwegian bugge (“big man”), dialectal Low German Bögge (“goblin”, “snot”)). Or, from a word related to buck and originally referring to a goat-shaped spectre.
# Middle English budde (“beetle”), from Old English budda (see sċearnbudda (“dung beetle”)), from Proto-Germanic *buddô, *buzdô, from the same ultimate source as above (compare Low German Budde (“louse, grub”), Norwegian budda (“newborn domestic animal”)). More at bud.
The term is used to refer to technical errors and problems at least as early as the 19th century, predating the commonly known story of a moth being caught in a computer.

cog

given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow

(poker) A limited form of wild card in some variants of poker.

Because many illegal slot-machine operators here and abroad do not like to give the slot-machine player even one chance to hit the jackpot or the big bonus, they make use of a "bug." This is a small, flat half-circle of iron about an inch long, which looks something like a bug.

1961, John Scarne, Complete Guide to Gambling, page 394:

(gambling, slang) A small piece of metal used in a slot machine to block certain winning combinations.

Some clumsy or audacious sharpers will go so far as to hold out cards in their lap, or stick them in a "bug" under the table.

1897, Robert Frederick Foster, Foster's Complete Hoyle, page 195:

Fargo had been in a saloon in Kansas when a man was caught using a bug. Made of steel and shaped like a money clip with two sharp ends, the bug was jammed under a table and held cards the bug's owner palmed until they were needed.

2006, Jon Sharpe, The Trailsman #299: Dakota Danger:

(gambling, slang) A metal clip attached to the underside of a table, etc. to hold hidden cards, as a form of cheating.


break

en-verb

break (third-person singular simple present breaks, present participle breaking, simple past broke or (archaic) brake, past participle broken or (nonstandard) broke)

breaks (present singular third-person)
breaking (participle present)
broke (past)
brake (archaic past)
broken (participle past)
broke (nonstandard participle past)
break (infinitive)

From Middle English breken, from Old English brecan (“to break”), from Proto-West Germanic *brekan, from Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break”). The word is a doublet of bray.
Cognates
Cognates of Germanic origin include Scots brek (“to break”), West Frisian brekke (“to break”), Dutch breken (“to break”), Low German breken (“to break”), German brechen (“to break”), French broyer (“to crush, grind”), Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 (brikan, “to break, destroy”), Norwegian brek (“desire, yearning”).
Also cognate with Albanian brishtë (“fragile”), Latin frangō (“break, break up, shatter”, verb), whence English fracture and other terms – fragile, frail, fraction, and fragment.

breek

intransitive: to separate into (to end up in) two or more pieces

thyen

transitive: to separate into (to cause to end up in) two or more pieces

sındırmaq

to cause a person to lose spirit or will

խախտել

transitive: to do that which is forbidden by (something)

փչանալ

intransitive: to stop functioning properly or altogether

ջարդել

transitive: to cause to stop functioning

burst

ergative: separate into two or more pieces

contravene

transitive: do that which is forbidden by

break one's arm patting oneself on the back

you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs

Changing the rules to let white have three extra queens would break chess.

I broke the RPG by training every member of my party to cast fireballs as well as use swords.

(transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.

ødelægge

gaming: to design or make a powerful, unbalancing but legal move

He needs to break serve to win the match.

Yet when play restarted the Czech was a train that kept on running over Nadal. After breaking Nadal in the opening game of the final set, he went 2-0 up and later took the count to 4-2 with yet another emphatic ace – one of his 22 throughout.

2012 June 28, Jamie Jackson, “Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal”, in the Guardian:

(transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.

Is it your or my turn to break?

(intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.

(transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).


break

(tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).

(billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.

(snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.

Blackpool were not without their opportunities - thanks to their willingness to commit and leave men forward even when under severe pressure - and they looked very capable of scoring on the break.

2010 December 28, Owen Phillips, “Sunderland 0 - 2 Blackpool”, in BBC:

(sports and games):
(soccer) The counter-attack.

(golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.

The final break in the Greenmount area is Kirra Point.

(surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).

Cigar was distracted at the break and let his five opponents get the jump.

1999, Jay Hovdey, Cigar: America's Horse, page 63:

Perhaps it stumbles to its knees at the break, effectively losing the race at the outset.

2010, John Alexander, Exotic Wagering the Winning Way, page 60:

(horse racing) The start of a horse race.

The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.


foot

en-noun

foot (plural feet or (UK colloquial, unit of measure) foot)

→ Assamese: ফুট (phut)

q

from <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">feet</i>

→ Japanese: フット (futto), フート (fūto); フィート (fīto) (from feet)

→ Russian: фут (fut)

Sranan Tongo: futu

Aukan: futu

Saramaccan: fútu

→ Swahili: futi

→ Thai: ฟุต (fút)

Tok Pisin: fut, put

→ Urdu: فٹ (fuṭ)

→ Phalura: fuṭ

From Middle English fot, fote, foot, from Old English fōt, from Proto-West Germanic *fōt, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds. Doublet of pes, pie (“Spanish unit of length”), and pous.

doublet

not touch something with a ten-foot pole

you cannot put the same shoe on every foot

(billiards) The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.


fit

Possibly from Middle English fit (“an adversary of equal power”), of uncertain further origin. The original sense appears to have been "to marshal or deploy troops", which shifted to "to suit (troops to a certain location" > "suitable", and may be further related to Icelandic fitja (“to web, knit, cast on”).

cog

During the auction, it is often a partnership's goal to find an eight-card major suit fit.

(bridge) The quality of a partnership's combined holding of cards in a suit, particularly of trump.

fitti

bridge: quality of a partnership's combined holding of cards


fit

fit (nominative singular)
fity (nominative plural)
fita (genitive singular)
fitu (genitive singular)
fitów (genitive plural)
fitowi (dative singular)
fitom (dative plural)
fit (accusative singular)
fity (accusative plural)
fitem (instrumental singular)
fitami (instrumental plural)
ficie (locative singular)
fitach (locative plural)
ficie (singular vocative)
fity (plural vocative)


brush

en-noun

brush (countable and uncountable, plural brushes)

From Middle English brusshe, from Old French broisse (Modern French brosse), from Vulgar Latin *brustia, from Frankish *bursti, from Proto-Germanic *burstiz (“bristle”), or also Vulgar Latin *bruscia, from Proto-Germanic *bruskaz (“tuft, thicket, underbrush”), which could be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrusgo-.

der

(video games) In 3D video games, a convex polyhedron, especially one that defines structure of the play area.

(poker, slang) The floorperson of a poker room, usually in a casino.


tore

Borrowed from Spanish torre. Displaced moog.


tout

(card games) In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.


button

→ German: Button

→ Hindi: बटन (baṭan)

→ Gujarati: બટન (baṭan)

→ Korean: 버튼 (beoteun)

→ Maori: pātene

→ Marathi: बटण (baṭaṇ)

→ Urdu: بَٹَن (baṭan)

From Middle English boton, botoun, from Old French boton (Modern French bouton), from Old French bouter, boter (“to push; thrust”), ultimately from a Germanic language. Doublet of Biden and beat. More at butt.

(poker) A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.

(poker) The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.


bat

From Middle English bat, batte, from Old English batt (“bat, club, cudgel”), probably of Celtic origin, compare Old Breton bath (“club, cudgel”) and modern Breton bazh (“swagger stick”), ultimately from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰh₂- (“to strike, beat, pierce”), similar to the Gaulish source of Latin battuo (“I beat, pound”).

(two-up) The piece of wood on which the spinner places the coins and then uses for throwing them.


cell

From Middle English celle, selle, from Old English cell (attested in inflected forms), from Latin cella (“chamber, small room, compartment”), later reinforced by Old French cel, sele, Old French cele. ultimately from Proto-Italic *kelnā, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelneh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”). Doublet of cella and hall.

intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell

melanopsin-containing retinal ganglion cell

(card games) In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.


make

en-verb

make (third-person singular simple present makes, present participle making, simple past and past participle made or (dialectal or obsolete) maked)

makes (present singular third-person)
making (participle present)
made (participle past)
made (past)
maked (dialectal obsolete participle past)
maked (dialectal obsolete past)
make (infinitive)

From Middle English maken, from Old English macian (“to make, build, work”), from Proto-West Germanic *makōn (“to make, build, work”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ǵ- (“to knead, mix, make”).
Related to match.
cognates
* Scots mak (“to make”)
* Saterland Frisian moakje (“to make”)
* West Frisian meitsje (“to make”)
* Dutch maken (“to make”)
* Dutch Low Saxon maken (“to make”)
* German Low German maken (“to make”)
* German machen (“to make, do”)
* Danish mage (“to make, arrange (in a certain way)”)
* Latin mācerō, macer
* Ancient Greek μάσσω (mássō)

elér

with definite conjugation and a subordinate clause

don't get your honey where you make your money

it takes a heap of living to make a house a home

it takes a heap o' livin' to make a house a home

it takes a lot of living to make a house a home

mackerel sky and mare's-tails make lofty ships carry low sails

mackerel sky and mare's-tails make tall ships carry low sails

you can't make a silk purse of a sow's ear

you've got to crack a few eggs to make an omelette

(transitive, backgammon) To establish two or more men on (a point) so that it cannot be captured.


make

It's your make as the cards lie. Take your time.

1925, Robert William Chambers, The Talkers, page 195:

'Not your make,' said the adjutant sternly and started dealing the cards with his white be-ringed hands as though he was in haste to get rid of them.

1962 (edition), Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murat: A Tale of the Caucasus

(card games) Turn to declare the trump for a hand (in bridge), or to shuffle the cards.


rake

From Middle English rake [and other forms], from Old English raca, racu, ræce (“tool with a row of pointed teeth, rake”), from Proto-Germanic *rakō, *rekô (“tool with a row of pointed teeth, rake”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten, right oneself”).
cognates
The English word is cognate with Danish rage (chiefly regional), Middle Dutch rāke, rēke (modern Dutch raak, reek (both regional), riek (“pitchfork, rake”)), Middle Low German rāke, racke (modern German Low German Raak (“rake; poker”)), Old High German rehho, rech (Middle High German reche, modern German Rechen (“rake”)), Old Norse reka (“shovel”) (modern Icelandic reka (“shovel”)), Old Saxon recho, Old Swedish raka (modern Swedish raka (“rake; (long) straight section of a road”)).

cog

(by extension) A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.

(gambling) A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.


rake

The verb is partly derived from rake (“tool with a row of pointed teeth”) (see etymology 1) and from Middle English raken (“to rake; to gather by raking; to rake away (debris); to cover with something; (figurative) to conceal, hide; to destroy”) [and other forms], from Old Norse raka (“to scrape”), from Proto-Germanic *raką, probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten, right oneself”).
cognates
The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch rāken (modern Dutch raken (“to rake”) (regional)), Middle Low German rāken, Old Danish raghæ, rakæ (modern Danish rage (“to shave”)), Old Swedish raka (modern Swedish raka (“to rake; to shave”)).
The noun is derived from the verb.

inh

A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.

osuus

share of profits, etc., especially if obtained illegally


attack

Borrowed from French attaque, derived from the verb attaquer, from Italian attaccare (“to join, attach”) (used in attaccare battaglia (“to join battle”)), from Frankish *stakka (“stick”). Doublet of attach. Displaced native Old English on rǣsan (“to attack”) and onrǣs (“an attack”).

aanval

attempt to cause damage, injury, or death

Combat in Mimesis Online is nice and simple. You click on your target […] and then keep right-clicking your chosen attack from the drop down menu. Every time you right click on the attack, your character will swing, shoot, etc.

2002 March, Aaron Butler, “Mimesis Online (PC)”, in GameSpy.com, archived from the original on 2002-12-16:

Kleavor has several attacks that it's worth roughly memorising: a charge attack, where it runs at you quickly; a jump attack, that causes a pillar of rock to spike out from under the ground; and a spin attack that does damage in a circle around it.

2022 January 28, Chris Tapsell, “Pokémon Legends Arceus Kleavor boss fight: How to beat Kleavor”, in Eurogamer.ner:

An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.

(gaming) Any of several specific maneuvers, skills, or special abilities that a character can use to inflict damage against opponents.


bubble

Partly imitative, also influenced by burble. Compare Middle Dutch bobbe (“bubble”) > Dutch bubbel (“bubble”), Low German bubbel (“bubble”), Danish boble (“bubble”), Swedish bubbla (“bubble”). The word was first used in its economic sense in association with the collapse of the South Sea Company in 1720, based on the metaphor of an inflated soap bubble bursting.

onom

imitative

Many players tend to play timidly (not play many hands) around the bubble, to keep their chips and last longer in the game.

(poker) In a poker tournament, the point before which eliminated players receive no prize money and after which they do; the situation where all remaining players are guaranteed prize money (in this case, the players are said to have made the bubble); the situation where all remaining players will be guaranteed prize money after some small number of players are eliminated (in this case, the players are said to be on the bubble).


burn

en-verb

burn (third-person singular simple present burns, present participle burning, simple past and past participle burned or (mostly Commonwealth) burnt or (obsolete) brent)

burns (present singular third-person)
burning (participle present)
burned (participle past)
burned (past)
burnt (Commonwealth participle past)
burnt (Commonwealth past)
brent (obsolete participle past)
brent (obsolete past)
burn (infinitive)

Sranan Tongo: bron

Aukan: boon

From Middle English bernen, birnen, from Old English birnan (“to burn”), metathesis from Proto-West Germanic *brinnan, from Proto-Germanic *brinnaną (“to burn”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenw-, present stem from *bʰrewh₁-. Doublet of brew.
See also Middle Irish brennim (“drink up”), bruinnim (“bubble up”); also Middle Irish bréo (“flame”), Albanian burth (“Cyclamen hederifolium, mouth burning”), Sanskrit भुरति (bhurati, “moves quickly, twitches, fidgets”). More at brew.

verbranden

chemistry: to cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent

(transitive, card games) In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.

choma

pontoon: to swap a pair of cards for another pair; deal a dead card

(intransitive, slang, card games, gambling) To discard.


hang

en-verb

hang (third-person singular simple present hangs, present participle hanging, simple past and past participle hung or (law) hanged)

hangs (present singular third-person)
hanging (participle present)
hung (participle past)
hung (past)
hanged (participle past)
hanged (past)

From Middle English hangen, hongen, from a fusion of Old English hōn (“to hang, be hanging”, transitive verb) and hangian (“to hang, cause to hang”, intransitive verb), from Proto-West Germanic *hą̄han and *hangēn; also probably influenced by Old Norse hengja (“to suspend”) and hanga (“to be suspended”); all from Proto-Germanic *hanhaną, *hangāną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱenk- (“to waver, be in suspense”).
See also Dutch hangen, Low German hangen and hängen, German hängen, Norwegian Bokmål henge, Norwegian Nynorsk henga; also Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌽 (hāhan), Hittite 𒂵𒀀𒀭𒂵 (/kānk-/, “to hang”), Sanskrit शङ्कते (śáṅkate, “is in doubt, hesitates”), Latin cūnctārī (“to delay”).

laat hang

computing: to cause (a program or computer) to stop responding

vystavit

chess: to cause to become vulnerable to capture

freeze

computing: cause (a program or computer) to stop responding

give him enough rope and he'll hang himself

one may as well hang for a sheep as a lamb

If you move there, you'll hang your rook.

(transitive, chess) To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.

In this standard opening position White has to be careful because the pawn on e4 hangs.

(intransitive, chess) To be vulnerable to capture.


hold

Derived from Middle English holden, derived from Old English healdan, derived from Proto-West Germanic *haldan, derived from Proto-Germanic *haldaną (“to tend, herd”), maybe derived from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“to drive”).
cognates
*West Frisian hâlde
*Low German holden, holen
*Dutch houden
*German halten
*Danish
*Norwegian Bokmål holde
*Norwegian Nynorsk halda.
Compare Latin celer (“quick”), Tocharian B käl- (“to goad, drive”), Ancient Greek κέλλω (kéllō, “to drive”), Sanskrit कलयति (kalayati, “to impel”).

der+

A hold facility is available; H holds, and S restarts.

1983, New Generation Software, Knot in 3D (video game instruction leaflet)

SCREEN 5 — Perhaps the toughest — going like the clappers sometimes works but generally you'll have to be smarter than that. If things get a little too hectic and you don't even have time to reach the HOLD key, try taking a short rest below the top of the stairs.

1987?, Imagine Software, Legend of Kage (video game instruction leaflet)


down

de-adj

down (strong nominative masculine singular downer, not comparable)

downer (masculine nominative singular strong)

(video games) down, defeated, without health left


torn

torn (indefinite nominative singular)
torns (genitive indefinite singular)
tornet (definite nominative singular)
tornets (definite genitive singular)
torn (indefinite nominative plural)
torns (genitive indefinite plural)
tornen (definite nominative plural)
tornens (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse turn, from Middle Low German tōrn, tōren, from Old French tor, from Latin turris, from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), τύρσις (túrsis), from a Mediterranean substrate loan.


string

en-noun

string (countable and uncountable, plural strings)

Tok Pisin: string

→ Dutch: string

→ Finnish: stringit

→ French: string

→ German: String

desc

מחרוז//מַחְרֹזֶת

→ Hebrew: מחרוז／מַחְרֹזֶת (makhrózet) (semantic loan)

→ Japanese: ストリング (sutoringu)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: streng (semantic loan)

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: streng (semantic loan)

→ Polish: stringi

→ Portuguese: estrém; string

→ Swedish: string

From Middle English string, streng, strynge, from Old English strenġ, from Proto-West Germanic *strangi, from Proto-Germanic *strangiz (“string”), from Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ- (“rope, cord, strand; to tighten”).
Cognate with Scots string (“string”), Dutch streng (“cord, strand”), Low German strenge (“strand, cord, rope”), German Strang (“strand, cord, rope”), Danish streng (“string”), Swedish sträng (“string, cord, wire”), Icelandic strengur (“string”), Latvian stringt (“to be tight, wither”), Latin stringō (“I tighten”), Ancient Greek στραγγαλόομαι (strangalóomai, “to strangle”), from στραγγάλη (strangálē, “halter”), Ancient Greek στραγγός (strangós, “tied together, entangled, twisted”).

cog

στραγγαλόομαι

弦

any similar long, thin and flexible object

弓弦

ゆづる, yuzuru, ゆみづる, yumizuru, ゆんづる, yunzuru

(billiards) Part of the game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail.

(historical, billiards) The buttons strung on a wire by which the score is kept.

(billiards, by extension) The points made in a game of billiards.

(billiards, pool) The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play, as by being pocketed or knocked off the table; also called the string line.


string

en-verb

string (third-person singular simple present strings, present participle stringing, simple past strung or (colloquial) stringed or strang, past participle strung or (colloquial) stringed)

strings (present singular third-person)
stringing (participle present)
strung (past)
stringed (colloquial past)
strang (past)
strung (participle past)
stringed (colloquial participle past)

From Middle English stryngen, strengen, from the noun (see above).

(intransitive, billiards) To drive the ball against the end of the table and back, in order to determine which player is to open the game.


spread

en-noun

spread (countable and uncountable, plural spreads)

From Middle English spreden, from Old English sprǣdan (“to spread, expand”), from Proto-Germanic *spraidijaną (“to spread”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per- (“to strew, sow, sprinkle”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian spreede (“to spread”), West Frisian spriede (“to spread”), North Frisian spriedjen (“to spread”), Dutch spreiden (“to spread”), Low German spreden (“to spread”), German spreiten (“to spread, spread out”), Norwegian spre, spreie (“to spread, disseminate”), Swedish sprida (“to spread”), Latin spernō, spargō, Ancient Greek σπείρω (speírō), Persian سپردن (sepordan, “to deposit”), English spurn.

cog

College basketball games don't lack for gambling propositions—the moneyline, a straightforward wager on which team will win; the over-under gamble on the total number of points scored by both teams—but the most popular wager is the spread. The spread represents the predicted difference between the two teams in the final score of the game.

2015 April 10, John Paul Rollert, “Vegas Odds”, in Harper's Magazine, New York, N.Y.: Harper's Magazine Foundation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-01-20:

(gambling) The difference between the teams' final scores at the end of a sport match.


sweep

From Middle English swepen, from Proto-West Germanic *swaipijan (unattested in Old English), from Proto-Germanic *swaipijaną. Cognate with Early Modern West Frisian swiepe (“whip, cleanse, sweep”), from Old Frisian swēpa, suepa (“sweep”). See also swoop.

airo

large oar used to propel and steer small vessels

(card games) In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.

mökki

casino: act of capturing all face-up cards from the table


hit

en-verb

hit (third-person singular simple present hits, present participle hitting, simple past hit or (dialectal, obsolete) hat or (rare, dialectal) het, past participle hit or (archaic, rare, dialectal) hitten)

hits (present singular third-person)
hitting (participle present)
hit (past)
hat (dialectal obsolete past)
het (dialectal past rare)
hit (participle past)
hitten (archaic dialectal participle past rare)

miss

antonym(s) of “manage to touch in the right place”

From Middle English hitten (“to hit, strike, make contact with”), from Old English hittan (“to meet with, come upon, fall in with”), from Old Norse hitta (“to strike, meet”), from Proto-Germanic *hittijaną (“to come upon, find”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd- (“to fall; fall upon; hit; cut; hew”).
Cognate with Icelandic hitta (“to meet”), Danish hitte (“to find”), Latin caedō (“to kill”), Albanian qit (“to hit, throw, pull out, release”).

cog

don't let the door hit you on the way out

let the door hit you where the good Lord split you

not be able to hit the broad side of a barn

Hit me.

(transitive, card games) In blackjack, to deal a card to.

To make a play.
In blackjack, to deal a card to.

Jones hit for the pitcher.

(intransitive, baseball) To come up to bat.

(backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.


hit

→ Catalan: hit

→ Czech: hit

→ Danish: hit

→ French: hit

→ Dutch: hit

→ Japanese: ヒット (hitto)

→ Polish: hit

→ Portuguese: hit

→ Russian: хит (xit)

→ Spanish: hit

→ Swedish: hit

хіт

success, especially in the entertainment industry

папада́нне

collision of a projectile with the target

(backgammon) A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.

(backgammon) A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.


shoe

en-noun

shoe (plural shoes or (archaic, dialectal) shoon or (obsolete) shoen)

shoes (plural)
shoon (archaic dialectal plural)
shoen (obsolete plural)

From Middle English scho, sho, from Old English sċōh (“shoe”), from Proto-West Germanic *skōh, from Proto-Germanic *skōhaz (“shoe”), of unclear etymology; possibly a derivation from *skehaną (“to move quickly”), from Proto-Indo-European *skek- (“to move quickly, jump”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English sabatine, sabatoun (“shoe”) from Medieval Latin sabatēnum, sabatum (“shoe, slipper”) (compare Old Occitan sabatō, Spanish zapato (“shoe”), French sabot (“wooden shoe, clog”), Italian ciabatta). The archaic plural shoon is from Middle English shon, from Old English scōn, scōum (“shoes”, dative plural) and scōna (“shoes'”, genitive plural); it is cognate with Scots shuin (“shoes”).
Cognates:
 See also Scots shae, West Frisian skoech, Low German Schoh, Dutch schoen, German Schuh, Bavarian Schuach, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish sko, Tocharian B skāk (“balcony”).
.

skoen

something resembling a shoe (e.g. brake shoe)

(card games) A device for holding multiple decks of playing cards, allowing more games to be played by reducing the time between shuffles.


kek

ㅋㅋㅋ (keukeukeu) is the childish Korean equivalent of the English "haha". Since this is often used in StarCraft matches, Blizzard, StarCraft’s developers, decided to reference it in World of Warcraft: when a player of the Horde faction types "lol" using the /say messaging command, members of the opposing faction see it as "kek".

Now Freakie boy, for a tasty doggie biscuit, can you try saying that again without any grammatical error?
kek kek kek kek kek

2007 October 13, The Cynic [username], “Re: Nobel Peace belong to me.”, in alt.politics.bush (Usenet):

Top kek.
I can't believe Apple would derp like THAT, at least the Apple of the mid-1980s.

2013 December 11, Steve Nickolas, “Re: 1984 Apple IIe Owner's Manual”, in comp.sys.apple2 (Usenet):

> "an hour or two a day" "chasing old Checkmate posts."
>
>kek

2014 February 19, Checkmate [username] (quoting [Tor] Friendly Neighborhood Vote> Wrangler Emeritus [username]), “Checkmate's Discount House of Spatulas”, in alt.usenet.kooks (Usenet):

(Internet slang, video games) Used to indicate laughter or humour.


straight

en-adj

straight (comparative straighter, superlative straightest)

straighter (comparative)
straightest (superlative)

→ Japanese: ストレート

From Middle English streight, streght, streiȝt, the past participle of strecchen (“to stretch”), from Old English streċċan (past participle ġestreaht, ġestreht), from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan (“to stretch”). Doublet of straught. Equivalent to stretch + -ed

der

The shirts only come in straight sizes, not in plus sizes.

shopping at a straight-sized store

(obsolete) Stretched out; fully extended.

We had a bit of a disagreement, but we're straight now.

(informal, of people, reciprocal) On good terms.


straight

Unadapted borrowing from English straight.

ubor

(poker) straight (five cards in sequence)


ROM

en-noun

ROM (countable and uncountable, plural ROMs)

(video games) A software image of read-only memory (as of a game cartridge) used in emulation.


distribution

distribution (countable and uncountable, plural distributions)

From Old French, from Latin distributio, from distribuere 'to distribute', itself from dis- 'apart' + tribuere 'to' (from tribus).

The declarer had 3-6-2-2 distribution.

(card games) The way in which a player's hand is divided in suits, or in which a particular suit is divided between the players.

jakauma

card games: way in which the cards are divided

vaihe

steam engines: step in the working cycle


split

→ Irish: spliota

Attested since about 1567, from Middle Dutch splitten (“to split”) and/or Middle Low German splitten (“to split”), both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *splittjan, an intensive form of Proto-West Germanic *splītan (“to split”), from Proto-Germanic *splītaną (whence Danish splitte, Low German splieten, German spleißen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to split, splice”).
Compare Middle English ysplett (“split”, past participle of splatten (“to split”)), Old English speld (“splinter”), Old High German spaltan (“to split”), Old Irish sliss (“splinter”), Lithuanian spaliai (“flax sheaves”), Czech půl (“half”), Old Church Slavonic рас-плитати (ras-plitati, “to cleave, split”).

cog

past participle of <i class="Latn mention" lang="enm">splatten</i> (“to split”)

(bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.

In the 3000 m race, his 800 m split was 1:45.32

(athletics, speedrunning) The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a race or speedrun.

banyes

bowling: pattern with missing intermediate pins

(gambling) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.


shoot

en-verb

shoot (third-person singular simple present shoots, present participle shooting, simple past shot, past participle shot or (rare) shotten)

shoots (present singular third-person)
shooting (participle present)
shot (past)
shot (participle past)
shotten (participle past rare)
shoot (infinitive)

→ Catalan: xut

→ Greek: σουτ (sout)

→ Hijazi Arabic: شوت (šūt)

→ North Levantine Arabic: شوت (šūt)

→ Persian: شوت (šut)

desc

→ Portuguese: chuto, chute (Brazil), chutar

→ Romanian: șut

→ Vietnamese: sút

From Middle English shoten, from Old English scēotan, from Proto-West Germanic *skeutan, from Proto-Germanic *skeutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kéwd-e-ti, from *(s)kewd- (“to shoot, throw”).
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian sjitte, Low German scheten, Dutch schieten, German schießen, Danish skyde, Norwegian Bokmål skyte, Norwegian Nynorsk skyta, Swedish skjuta; and also, through Indo-European, with Russian кида́ть (kidátʹ), Albanian hedh (“to throw, toss”), Persian چست (čost, “quick, active”), Lithuanian skudrùs.

(+ partitive object when injuring or genitive object when killing) ampua

when the looting starts, the shooting starts

Then, when it was his turn to shoot, he reached out with a completely empty hand and caught the dice the stickman threw to him.

1980, John Scarne, Scarne on Dice, page 275:

To launch a projectile.
(gambling) To throw dice.


shoot

Catalan: xut

Portuguese: chuto

(card games) The act of taking all point cards in one hand.


shape

en-noun

shape (countable and uncountable, plural shapes)

From Middle English shap, schape, from Old English ġesceap (“shape, form, created being, creature, creation, dispensation, fate, condition, sex, gender, genitalia”), from Proto-West Germanic *ga- + *skap, from Proto-Germanic *ga- + *skapą (“shape, nature, condition”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to split, cut”).
The verb is from Middle English shapen, schapen, from Old English scieppan (“to shape, form, make, create, assign, arrange, destine, order, adjudge”), from Proto-West Germanic *skappjan, from Proto-Germanic *skapjaną (“to create”), from the noun.
The noun is cognate with Middle Dutch schap (“form”), Middle High German geschaf (“creature”), Icelandic skap (“state, condition, temper, mood”). The verb is cognate with Dutch scheppen, German schaffen, Swedish skapa (“create, make”), Norwegian Bokmål skape (“create”). Doublet of -ship.

cog

A top cheater seldom ever uses shapes or loaded dice because they do not assure you of winning.

1961, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Gambling and Organized Crime: Hearings, page 76:


cushion

en-noun

cushion (countable and uncountable, plural cushions)

→ Cantonese: 咕𠱸 (ku1 seon2), 箍臣

→ Irish: cúisín

→ Japanese: クッション (kusshon)

→ Korean: 쿠션 (kusyeon)

→ Maori: kuihana

From Middle English quysshyn, from later Old French coissin (modern coussin), from Vulgar Latin *coxīnus (“seat pad”), derived from Latin coxa (“hip, thigh”) (with the suffix possibly after Latin pulvīnus (“pillow”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *koḱs- (“joint, limb”).

der

Something acting as a cushion, especially to absorb a shock or impact.

(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The lip around a table in cue sports which absorbs some of the impact of the billiard balls and bounces them back.


vole

en-verb

vole (third-person singular simple present voles, present participle voling, simple past and past participle voled)

voles (present singular third-person)
voling (participle present)
voled (participle past)
voled (past)

no lad shall chuck, or lady vole, But some excising Courtier will have toll.

1717, Alexander Pope, “The Fourth Satire of Dr. John Donne”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], →OCLC:

(card games, intransitive) To win all the tricks by a vole.


throw

throw (third-person singular simple present throws, present participle throwing, simple past threw or (nonstandard) throwed, past participle thrown or (nonstandard) throwed or (nonstandard) threw)

throws (present singular third-person)
throwing (participle present)
threw (past)
throwed (nonstandard past)
thrown (participle past)
throwed (nonstandard participle past)
threw (nonstandard participle past)
throw (infinitive)

From Middle English throwen, thrawen, from Old English þrāwan (“to turn, twist”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrāan, from Proto-Germanic *þrēaną (“to twist, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, rub by twisting, twist, turn”).
Cognate with Scots thraw (“to twist, turn, throw”), West Frisian triuwe (“to push”), Dutch draaien (“to turn”), Low German draien, dreien (“to turn (in a lathe)”), German drehen (“to turn”).
Displaced warp as the word for hurling and was displaced by warp as the word for twisting.

hedh

to cause an object to move rapidly through the air

heitellä

repeatedly, continuously and/or indifferently

people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick

throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick

throw nickels around like manhole covers

throw oneself on someone's mercy not have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of

throw one's hotdog down someone's hallway

throw things at the wall and see what sticks

trust someone as far as one could throw them

The tennis player was accused of taking bribes to throw the match.

Four pairs of women's doubles badminton players, including the Chinese top seeds, have been ejected from the Olympic tournament for trying to throw matches in an effort to secure a more favourable quarter-final draw.

2012 August 1, Peter Walker, Haroon Siddique, Eight Olympic badminton players disqualified for 'throwing games', Guardian Unlimited:

(sports, video games) To intentionally lose a game.

Declarer threw his queen of spades on the high diamond. He then won the last three tricks with his ace, queen and nine of hearts behind East's jack third.

1990 January 4, “Sharp coup overcomes trump split”, in The Washington Times:


control

(video games, Latin America) controller, gamepad, joypad


boat

Belizean Creole: boat

→ Esperanto: boato

→ Dhivehi: ބޯޓު (bōṭu)

→ Fijian: boto

→ Hijazi Arabic: بوت (bōt)

→ Japanese: ボート (bōto)

→ Malay: bot

→ Pitcairn-Norfolk: boet (Norfuk)

→ Sinhalese: බෝට්ටුව (bōṭṭuwa)

→ Swahili: boti

→ Scots: boat, bote (compare native bait, bate)

→ Tahitian: poti

Tok Pisin: bot

From Middle English bot, boot, boet, boyt (“boat”), from Old English bāt (“boat”), from Proto-West Germanic *bait, from Proto-Germanic *baitaz, *baitą (“boat, small ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to break, split”). Cognate with Old Norse beit (“boat”), Middle Dutch beitel (“little boat”).
Old Norse bátr (whence Icelandic bátur, Norwegian båt, Danish båd), Dutch boot, German Boot, Occitan batèl and French bateau are all ultimately borrowings from the Old English word.


show

en-verb

show (third-person singular simple present shows, present participle showing, simple past showed or (archaic) shew, past participle shown or (now rare, US) showed)

shows (present singular third-person)
showing (participle present)
showed (past)
shew (archaic past)
shown (participle past)
showed (US archaic participle past)
show (infinitive)

disprove

antonym(s) of “indicate a fact to be true”

From Middle English schewen, from Old English scēawian (“to look, look at, exhibit, display”), from Proto-West Germanic *skauwōn, from Proto-Germanic *skawwōną (“to look, see”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₁- (“to heed, look, feel, take note of”); see haw, gaum, caveat, caution.
Cognate with Scots shaw (“to show”), Dutch schouwen (“to inspect, view”), German schauen (“to see, behold”), Danish skue (“to behold”). Related to sheen.
Wider cognates include Ancient Greek κῦδος (kûdos), Latin caveō whence English caution and caveat, and Sanskrit कवि (kaví, “seer, prophet, bard”).

cog

He called instantly but was too ashamed to show until the river.

2017, Nathan Schwiethale, Ace High: Mastering Low Stakes Poker Cash Games, page 70:

(intransitive, card games) To reveal one's hand of cards.


otter

head

otter c (singular definite otteren, plural indefinite ottere)

otteren (definite singular)
ottere (indefinite plural)
otter (indefinite nominative singular)
otteren (definite nominative singular)
ottere (indefinite nominative plural)
otterene (definite nominative plural)
otters (genitive indefinite singular)
otterens (definite genitive singular)
otteres (genitive indefinite plural)
otterenes (definite genitive plural)

eight (the card rank between seven and nine)


cut

en-noun

cut (countable and uncountable, plural cuts)

From Middle English cutten, kitten, kytten, ketten (“to cut”) (compare Scots kut, kit (“to cut”)), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse *kytja, *kutta, from Proto-Germanic *kutjaną, *kuttaną (“to cut”), of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *kwetwą (“meat, flesh”) (compare Old Norse kvett (“meat”)). Akin to Middle Swedish kotta (“to cut or carve with a knife”) (compare dialectal Swedish kåta, kuta (“to cut or chip with a knife”), Swedish kuta, kytti (“a knife”)), Norwegian Bokmål kutte (“to cut”), Norwegian Nynorsk kutte (“to cut”), Icelandic kuta (“to cut with a knife”), Old Norse kuti (“small knife”), Norwegian kyttel, kytel, kjutul (“pointed slip of wood used to strip bark”). Displaced native Middle English snithen (from Old English snīþan; compare German schneiden), which still survives in some dialects as snithe or snead. See snide. Adjective sense of "drunk" (now rare and now usually used in the originally jocular derivative form of half-cut) dates from the 17th century, from cut in the leg, to have cut your leg, euphemism for being very drunk.

leikkaus

notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging

The player next to the dealer makes a cut by placing the bottom half on top.

(card games) The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.

(card games) The card obtained by dividing the pack.


cheese

en-verb

cheese (third-person singular simple present cheeses, present participle cheesing, simple past and past participle cheesed)

cheeses (present singular third-person)
cheesing (participle present)
cheesed (participle past)
cheesed (past)

You can cheese most of the game using certain exploits.

The term cheesing is also pretty common. However, at least originally, ticking had a more specific meaning, ie hitting someone and then throwing after they block, whereas cheesing would be anything "cheap", and thereore depended on the user [...]

1993, Alex Werner, alt.games.sf2 (Usenet):

The moral of the story is, real strategy doesn't apply in WH40K. Find out where your opponent cheesed himself up and hit him there with everything you've got.

2000, cyber...@my-deja.com, rec.games.miniatures.warhammer (Usenet):

"Cheesing" means to shoot for the 9-ball (in 9-ball) before being on the 9-ball (i.e. shooting at the 1-ball to hit the 9-ball in). Basically if you can do it, you'll win the game (but perhaps not much respect).

2001, Samiel, rec.sport.billiard (Usenet):

For example, he was accused of "cheating" when he modified his in-game play techniques—without the use of cheat codes—but in ways that were unexpected to his opponents. Taking these actions (called cheesing by some in game play discourse) was unexpected, because the actions diverged from courses of action perceived as normal in the real-world activity the game simulated.

2008, Reed Stevens, Tom Satwicz, Laurie McCarthy, “In-Game, In-Room, In-World: Reconnecting Video Game Play to the Rest of Kids’ Lives”, in Katie Salen, editor, The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning), Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, →DOI, page 54:

(Internet slang, gaming, transitive, intransitive) To use a controversial or unsporting tactic to gain an advantage (especially in a game.)

(video games, slang) To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games).

rush

use a surprise all-in strategy early in a game


kral

kralik (diminutive)
kral (nominative singular)
kralej (dual nominative)
krale (nominative plural)
krala (genitive singular)
kralow (dual genitive)
kralow (genitive plural)
kralej (dative singular)
kralomaj (dative dual)
kralam (dative plural)
krala (accusative singular)
kralej (accusative dual)
krale (accusative plural)
kralom (instrumental singular)
kralomaj (dual instrumental)
kralemi (instrumental plural)
kralu (locative singular)
kralomaj (dual locative)
kralach (locative plural)
kralo (singular vocative)
kralej (dual vocative)
krale (plural vocative)


strike

→ Danish: strike

→ Dutch: strike

→ French: strike

→ German: Strike

→ Italian: strike

→ Japanese: ストライク (sutoraiku)

→ Korean: 스트라이크 (seuteuraikeu)

→ Portuguese: strike

→ Russian: страйк (strajk)

→ Spanish: strike

→ Swedish: strike

→ Danish: strejke

→ Esperanto: striko

→ Hungarian: sztrájk

→ Japanese: ストライキ (sutoraiki)

desctree

→ German: Streik
→ Kashubian: sztrajk
→ Macedonian: штрајк (štrajk)
→ Serbo-Croatian: štrȁjk／штра̏јк
→ Slovak: štrajk

→ Polish: strajk
→ Belarusian: страйк (strajk)
→ Ukrainian: страйк (strajk)

→ Swedish: strejk

→ Welsh: streic

From Middle English stryken, from Old English strīcan, from Proto-West Germanic *strīkan, from Proto-Germanic *strīkaną, from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to stroke, rub, press”).
Cognate with Dutch strijken, German streichen, Danish stryge, Icelandic strýkja, strýkva.

der

(bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins on the first roll of a frame.


strike

Unadapted borrowing from English strike.

(bowling) strike (the act of knocking down all pins)


ir

pt-verb

ir (first-person singular present vou, first-person singular preterite fui, past participle ido)

vou (first-person present singular)
fui (first-person preterite singular)
ido (participle past)
ir (impersonal infinitive)
ir (first-person infinitive singular)
ires (infinitive second-person singular)
ir (infinitive singular third-person)
irmos (first-person infinitive plural)
irdes (infinitive plural second-person)
irem (infinitive plural third-person)
indo (gerund)
ido (masculine participle past singular)
idos (masculine participle past plural)
ida (feminine participle past singular)
idas (feminine participle past plural)
vou (first-person indicative present singular)
vais (indicative present second-person singular)
vai (indicative present singular third-person)
vamos (first-person indicative plural present)
ides (indicative plural present second-person)
vão (indicative plural present third-person)
ia (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
ias (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
ia (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
íamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
íeis (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
iam (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
fui (first-person indicative preterite singular)
foste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
foi (indicative preterite singular third-person)
fomos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
fostes (indicative plural preterite second-person)
foram (indicative plural preterite third-person)
fora (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
foras (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
fora (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
fôramos (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
fôreis (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
foram (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
irei (first-person future indicative singular)
irás (future indicative second-person singular)
irá (future indicative singular third-person)
iremos (first-person future indicative plural)
ireis (future indicative plural second-person)
irão (future indicative plural third-person)
iria (conditional first-person singular)
irias (conditional second-person singular)
iria (conditional singular third-person)
iríamos (conditional first-person plural)
iríeis (conditional plural second-person)
iriam (conditional plural third-person)
vá (first-person present singular subjunctive)
vás (present second-person singular subjunctive)
vá (present singular subjunctive third-person)
vamos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
vades (plural present second-person subjunctive)
vão (plural present subjunctive third-person)
fosse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
fosses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
fosse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
fôssemos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
fôsseis (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
fossem (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
for (first-person future singular subjunctive)
fores (future second-person singular subjunctive)
for (future singular subjunctive third-person)
formos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
fordes (future plural second-person subjunctive)
forem (future plural subjunctive third-person)
vai (imperative second-person singular)
vá (imperative singular third-person)
vamos (first-person imperative plural)
ide (imperative plural second-person)
vão (imperative plural third-person)
não vás (imperative negative second-person singular)
não vá (imperative negative singular third-person)
não vamos (first-person imperative negative plural)
não vades (imperative negative plural second-person)
não vão (imperative negative plural third-person)

Inherited from Latin īre. The forms beginning with /v/ derive from corresponding forms of Latin vādere; those beginning with /f/ derive from corresponding forms of Latin esse.

Não se ouvia mais nada, além dos ruídos naturais do pôquer. O clicar das fichas. Frases curtas: "Dou cartas." "Vou." "Não vou." "Pago pra ver." "Não é possível!"

2012, Luís Fernando Veríssimo, “Os pêssegos”, in Diálogos Impossíveis, Rio de Janeiro: Editora Objetiva, →ISBN, page 29:

(poker, intransitive) to call (to match the amount of chips in the pot)


ir

es-verb

ir (first-person singular present voy, first-person singular preterite fui, past participle ido)

voy (first-person present singular)
fui (first-person preterite singular)
ido (participle past)
ir (infinitive)
yendo (gerund)
ido (masculine participle past singular)
ida (feminine participle past singular)
idos (masculine participle past plural)
idas (feminine participle past plural)
voy (first-person indicative present singular)
vas (indicative present second-person singular)
va (indicative present singular third-person)
vamos (first-person indicative plural present)
vais (indicative plural present second-person)
van (indicative plural present third-person)
iba (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
ibas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
iba (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
íbamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
ibais (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
iban (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
fui (first-person indicative preterite singular)
fuiste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
fue (indicative preterite singular third-person)
fuimos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
fuisteis (indicative plural preterite second-person)
fueron (indicative plural preterite third-person)
iré (first-person future indicative singular)
irás (future indicative second-person singular)
irá (future indicative singular third-person)
iremos (first-person future indicative plural)
iréis (future indicative plural second-person)
irán (future indicative plural third-person)
iría (conditional first-person indicative singular)
irías (conditional indicative second-person singular)
iría (conditional indicative singular third-person)
iríamos (conditional first-person indicative plural)
iríais (conditional indicative plural second-person)
irían (conditional indicative plural third-person)
vaya (first-person present singular subjunctive)
vayas (informal present second-person singular subjunctive)
vayás (informal present second-person singular subjunctive vos-form)
vaya (present singular subjunctive third-person)
vayamos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
vayáis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
vayan (plural present subjunctive third-person)
fuera (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
fueras (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
fuera (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
fuéramos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
fuerais (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
fueran (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
fuese (first-person imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive)
fueses (imperfect imperfect-se second-person singular subjunctive)
fuese (imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive third-person)
fuésemos (first-person imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive)
fueseis (imperfect imperfect-se plural second-person subjunctive)
fuesen (imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive third-person)
fuere (first-person future singular subjunctive)
fueres (future second-person singular subjunctive)
fuere (future singular subjunctive third-person)
fuéremos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
fuereis (future plural second-person subjunctive)
fueren (future plural subjunctive third-person)
ve (imperative informal second-person singular)
andá (imperative informal second-person singular vos-form)
vaya (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
vaya (imperative singular third-person)
vamos (first-person imperative plural)
vayamos (first-person imperative plural)
id (imperative plural second-person)
vayan (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
vayan (imperative plural third-person)
vayas (imperative negative second-person singular)
vaya (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
vaya (imperative negative singular third-person)
vayamos (first-person imperative negative plural)
vayáis (imperative negative plural second-person)
vayan (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
vayan (imperative negative plural third-person)
irme (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
irte (combined-form dative infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
irle (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
irse (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
irnos (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
iros (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
irles (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
irse (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
irme (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
irte (accusative combined-form infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
irlo (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
irla (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
irse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
irnos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
iros (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
irlos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
irlas (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
irse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
yéndome (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-singular)
yéndote (combined-form dative gerund object-second-person object-singular)
yéndole (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
yéndose (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
yéndonos (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-plural)
yéndoos (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-second-person)
yéndoles (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
yéndose (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
yéndome (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-singular)
yéndote (accusative combined-form gerund object-second-person object-singular)
yéndolo (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
yéndola (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
yéndose (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
yéndonos (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-plural)
yéndoos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-second-person)
yéndolos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
yéndolas (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
yéndose (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
veme (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
vete (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
vele (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
venos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
veles (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
veme (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
vete (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
velo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
vela (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
venos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
velos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
velas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
andame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
andate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
andale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
andanos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
andales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
andame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
andate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
andalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
andala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
andanos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
andalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
andalas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
váyame (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
váyale (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
váyase (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
váyanos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
váyales (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
váyame (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
váyalo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
váyala (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
váyase (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
váyanos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
váyalos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
váyalas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
vámoste (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
vayámoste (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
vámosle (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
vayámosle (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
vámonos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
vayámonos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
vámoos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
vayámoos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
vámosles (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
vayámosles (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
vámoste (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
vayámoste (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
vámoslo (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
vayámoslo (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
vámosla (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
vayámosla (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
vámonos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
vayámonos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
vámoos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
vayámoos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
vámoslos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
vayámoslos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
vámoslas (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
vayámoslas (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
idme (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
idle (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
idnos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
idos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
iros (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
idles (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
idme (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
idlo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
idla (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
idnos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
idos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
iros (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
idlos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
idlas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
váyanme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
váyanle (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
váyannos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
váyanles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
váyanse (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
váyanme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
váyanlo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
váyanla (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
váyannos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
váyanlos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
váyanlas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
váyanse (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
irse (infinitive)
yéndose (gerund)
ido (masculine participle past singular)
ida (feminine participle past singular)
idos (masculine participle past plural)
idas (feminine participle past plural)
irme (first-person infinitive singular)
irte (infinitive second-person singular)
irse (infinitive singular third-person)
irnos (first-person infinitive plural)
iros (infinitive plural second-person)
irse (infinitive plural third-person)
yéndome (first-person gerund singular)
yéndote (gerund second-person singular)
yéndose (gerund singular third-person)
yéndonos (first-person gerund plural)
yéndoos (gerund plural second-person)
yéndose (gerund plural third-person)
me voy (first-person indicative present singular)
te vas (indicative present second-person singular)
se va (indicative present singular third-person)
nos vamos (first-person indicative plural present)
os vais (indicative plural present second-person)
se van (indicative plural present third-person)
me iba (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
te ibas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
se iba (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
nos íbamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
os ibais (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
se iban (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
me fui (first-person indicative preterite singular)
te fuiste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
se fue (indicative preterite singular third-person)
nos fuimos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
os fuisteis (indicative plural preterite second-person)
se fueron (indicative plural preterite third-person)
me iré (first-person future indicative singular)
te irás (future indicative second-person singular)
se irá (future indicative singular third-person)
nos iremos (first-person future indicative plural)
os iréis (future indicative plural second-person)
se irán (future indicative plural third-person)
me iría (conditional first-person indicative singular)
te irías (conditional indicative second-person singular)
se iría (conditional indicative singular third-person)
nos iríamos (conditional first-person indicative plural)
os iríais (conditional indicative plural second-person)
se irían (conditional indicative plural third-person)
me vaya (first-person present singular subjunctive)
te vayas (informal present second-person singular subjunctive)
te vayás (informal present second-person singular subjunctive vos-form)
se vaya (present singular subjunctive third-person)
nos vayamos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
os vayáis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
se vayan (plural present subjunctive third-person)
me fuera (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
te fueras (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
se fuera (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
nos fuéramos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
os fuerais (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
se fueran (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
me fuese (first-person imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive)
te fueses (imperfect imperfect-se second-person singular subjunctive)
se fuese (imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive third-person)
nos fuésemos (first-person imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive)
os fueseis (imperfect imperfect-se plural second-person subjunctive)
se fuesen (imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive third-person)
me fuere (first-person future singular subjunctive)
te fueres (future second-person singular subjunctive)
se fuere (future singular subjunctive third-person)
nos fuéremos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
os fuereis (future plural second-person subjunctive)
se fueren (future plural subjunctive third-person)
vete (imperative informal second-person singular)
andate (imperative informal second-person singular vos-form)
váyase (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
váyase (imperative singular third-person)
vámonos (first-person imperative plural)
vayámonos (first-person imperative plural)
idos (imperative plural second-person)
iros (imperative plural second-person)
váyanse (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
váyanse (imperative plural third-person)
te vayas (imperative negative second-person singular)
se vaya (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
se vaya (imperative negative singular third-person)
nos vayamos (first-person imperative negative plural)
os vayáis (imperative negative plural second-person)
se vayan (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
se vayan (imperative negative plural third-person)

Inherited from Latin īre. The forms beginning with /b/ derive from corresponding forms of Latin vādere; those beginning with /f/ derive from corresponding forms of Latin esse.

ir a por

to go get, to fetch; to go for, to come for

ir en serio

to get serious, to be serious; to mean it

Juan estaba seguro de su mano, así que decidió ir con todo.

Juan was confident in his hand, so he decided to go all in.

Si no estás seguro de tu baraja, es mejor no ir en esta ronda.

If you're not confident about your deck, it's better not to play this round


brick

en-noun

brick (countable and uncountable, plural bricks)

⇒ Welsh: brics

From late Middle English brik, bryke, bricke, from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch bricke ("cracked or broken brick; tile-stone"; modern Dutch brik), ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *brekan (“to break”), whence also Old French briche and French brique (“brick”). Compare also German Low German Brickje (“small board, tray”). Related to break.

gloss

"cracked or broken brick; tile-stone"; modern Dutch <i class="Latn mention" lang="nl">brik</i>

cog

The two of clubs was a complete brick on the river.

(poker slang) A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.


capture

en-verb

capture (third-person singular simple present captures, present participle capturing, simple past and past participle captured)

captures (present singular third-person)
capturing (participle present)
captured (participle past)
captured (past)

Borrowed from Middle French capture (noun), from Latin captūra. Displaced native Old English fenġ (noun) and ġefōn (verb).

վերցնել

remove or take control of opponent’s piece

My pawn was captured.

He captured his opponent’s queen on the 15th move.

How deeply ingrained capturing is in the mind of a chess master can be seen from this story.

1954, Fred Reinfeld, How to Be a Winner at Chess, Garden City, NY: Hanover House, page 63:

(transitive) To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).


pawn

From Middle English pown, from Anglo-Norman poun, paun (“footman”), from Late Latin pedōnem (“pedestrian”), derived fom Latin ped- (“foot”). Doublet of peon.

(chess) The most numerous chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess, each side starts with eight; moves are only forward, and attacks are only diagonally or en passant.


pawn

en-verb

pawn (third-person singular simple present pawns, present participle pawning, simple past and past participle pawned)

pawns (present singular third-person)
pawning (participle present)
pawned (participle past)
pawned (past)


nit

(poker) A player with an overly cautious and reactive playing style.


donkey

en-noun

donkey (plural donkeys or (obsolete) donkies)

donkeys (plural)
donkies (obsolete plural)

→ Afrikaans: donkie

→ Northern Sotho: tonki

→ Tok Pisin: donki

desc

→ Urdu: ڈَنْکی (ḍaṅkī)

→ Urdu: ڈَنْکی (ḍaṅkī)

The origin is uncertain. Originally a slang term from the late eighteenth century. Perhaps from Middle English *donekie (“a miniature dun horse”), a double diminutive of Middle English don, dun, dunne (a name for a dun horse), equivalent to modern English dun (“brownish grey colour”) + -ock (diminutive suffix) + -ie (diminutive suffix). Compare Middle English donning (“a dun horse”), English dunnock. Became more common than the original term ass due to the latter's homophony and partial merger with arse (compare similar development between coney and rabbit).


castling

en-noun

castling (usually uncountable, plural castlings)

From Middle English castellinge, equivalent to castle (verb) + -ing.

(chess) A move in which the king moves two squares towards a rook, and the rook moves to the other side of the king; the action of the verb to castle.

(shogi) The act of constructing a defense structure in Japanese chess in which the king (玉) is positioned in a certain way so that it is protected by pawns (歩) and silver general(s) (銀) and/or gold general(s) (金) often with an additional knight (桂) and lance (香車).


一

/itɨ/ → /it͡sɨ/ → /it͡ɕɨ/
From Middle Chinese 一 (ʔiɪt̚).
Compare modern Hokkien reading it.

term relating to the number one:
(card games) an ace


energy

energy (countable and uncountable, plural energies)

→ Cebuano: enerdyi

→ Japanese: エナジー (enajī)

→ Korean: 에너지 (eneoji)

From Middle French énergie, from Late Latin energia, from Ancient Greek ἐνέργεια (enérgeia, “activity”), from ἐνεργός (energós, “active”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”). The sense in physics was coined by English polymath Thomas Young in 1802 in his lectures on Natural Philosophy.

coin

(roleplaying games, video games, board games) A measure of how many actions a player or unit can take; in the fantasy genre often called magic points or mana.

roleplaying games; board games; roleplaying games; board games


bridge

From Middle English brigge, from Old English brycġ (“bridge”), from Proto-Germanic *brugjō, *brugjǭ (“bridge”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerw-, *bʰrēw- (“wooden flooring, decking, bridge”).
Cognate with Scots brig, brigg, breeg (“bridge”), Saterland Frisian Brääch (“bridge”), West Frisian brêge (“bridge”), Dutch brug (“bridge”), German Brücke (“bridge”), Danish brygge (“wharf”), Icelandic brygga (“pier”), Gaulish briua (“bridge”).
The verb is from Middle English briggen, from Old English brycġian (“to bridge, make a causeway, pave”), derived from the noun. Cognate with Dutch bruggen (“to bridge”), Middle Low German bruggen (“to bridge”), Old High German bruccōn (“to bridge”) (whence Modern German brücken).
The musical connection sense is a semantic loan from German Steg, from Old High German steg.

ацҳа

if someone told you to jump off a bridge, would you do it

A construction or natural feature that spans a divide.

(bowling) The gap between the holes on a bowling ball

(billiards, snooker, pool) A particular form of one hand placed on the table to support the cue when making a shot in cue sports.

(billiards, snooker, pool) A cue modified with a convex arch-shaped notched head attached to the narrow end, used to support a player's (shooter's) cue for extended or tedious shots. Also called a spider.

(card games) A form of cheating by which a card is cut by previously curving it by pressure of the hand.