"Sir Philip Sidney game" meaning in English

See Sir Philip Sidney game in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: Sir Philip Sidney games [plural]
Etymology: Named after a story about Sir Philip Sidney, who allegedly, when fatally wounded, gave his water to another, saying, "Thy necessity is greater than mine." Head templates: {{en-noun}} Sir Philip Sidney game (plural Sir Philip Sidney games)
  1. (biology, game theory) A model for the evolution and maintenance of informative communication between relatives, developed to explain begging behaviour in chicks. Wikipedia link: Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Philip Sidney game Categories (topical): Biology, Game theory

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_text": "Named after a story about Sir Philip Sidney, who allegedly, when fatally wounded, gave his water to another, saying, \"Thy necessity is greater than mine.\"",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Sir Philip Sidney games",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Sir Philip Sidney game (plural Sir Philip Sidney games)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Biology",
          "orig": "en:Biology",
          "parents": [
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Game theory",
          "orig": "en:Game theory",
          "parents": [
            "Mathematics",
            "Formal sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A model for the evolution and maintenance of informative communication between relatives, developed to explain begging behaviour in chicks."
      ],
      "id": "en-Sir_Philip_Sidney_game-en-noun-E0x1HjnO",
      "links": [
        [
          "biology",
          "biology"
        ],
        [
          "game theory",
          "game theory"
        ],
        [
          "model",
          "model"
        ],
        [
          "evolution",
          "evolution"
        ],
        [
          "maintenance",
          "maintenance"
        ],
        [
          "informative",
          "informative"
        ],
        [
          "communication",
          "communication"
        ],
        [
          "relative",
          "relative"
        ],
        [
          "beg",
          "beg"
        ],
        [
          "chick",
          "chick"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(biology, game theory) A model for the evolution and maintenance of informative communication between relatives, developed to explain begging behaviour in chicks."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "game-theory",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Sir Philip Sidney",
        "Sir Philip Sidney game"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Sir Philip Sidney game"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "Named after a story about Sir Philip Sidney, who allegedly, when fatally wounded, gave his water to another, saying, \"Thy necessity is greater than mine.\"",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Sir Philip Sidney games",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Sir Philip Sidney game (plural Sir Philip Sidney games)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English eponyms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Biology",
        "en:Game theory"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A model for the evolution and maintenance of informative communication between relatives, developed to explain begging behaviour in chicks."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "biology",
          "biology"
        ],
        [
          "game theory",
          "game theory"
        ],
        [
          "model",
          "model"
        ],
        [
          "evolution",
          "evolution"
        ],
        [
          "maintenance",
          "maintenance"
        ],
        [
          "informative",
          "informative"
        ],
        [
          "communication",
          "communication"
        ],
        [
          "relative",
          "relative"
        ],
        [
          "beg",
          "beg"
        ],
        [
          "chick",
          "chick"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(biology, game theory) A model for the evolution and maintenance of informative communication between relatives, developed to explain begging behaviour in chicks."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "game-theory",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Sir Philip Sidney",
        "Sir Philip Sidney game"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Sir Philip Sidney game"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Sir Philip Sidney game meaning in English (1.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.