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gam⋅bit
[gam-bit]
–noun
| 1. | Chess. an opening in which a player seeks to obtain some advantage by sacrificing a pawn or piece. |
| 2. | any maneuver by which one seeks to gain an advantage. |
| 3. | a remark made to open or redirect a conversation. |
Origin:
1650–60; < F < Sp gambito or It gambetto (akin to OF gambet, jambet), equiv. to gamb(a) leg + -etta -et
1650–60; < F < Sp gambito or It gambetto (akin to OF gambet, jambet), equiv. to gamb(a) leg + -etta -et

Synonyms:
2. ploy, stratagem, scheme, ruse.
2. ploy, stratagem, scheme, ruse.
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Gambit
Gam"bit\, n. [F. gambit, cf. It. gambitto gambit, a tripping up. See Gambol, n.] (Chess Playing) A mode of opening the game, in which a pawn is sacrificed to gain an attacking position.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : gambit
Spanish:
gambito,
German:
das Gambit,
Japanese:
先手
gambit
"chess opening in which a pawn is risked for advantage later," 1656, gambett, from It. gambetto, lit. "a tripping up" (as a trick in wrestling), from gamba "leg," from L.L. gamba (see gambol). Applied to chess openings in Sp. in 1561 by Ruy Lopez, who traced it to the It. word, but the form in Sp. was generally gambito which led to Fr. gambit, which has infl. the Eng. spelling of the word. Broader sense of "opening move meant to gain advantage" is first recorded in Eng. 1855.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Gambit language
A variant of Scheme R3.99 supporting the future construct of Multilisp by Marc Feeley
Gambit used PVM as its intermediate language.
(ftp://acorn.cs.brandeis.edu/dist), (ftp://ftp.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/amiga/fish/f7/ff764/Gambit_Terp). (ftp://ftp.iro.umontreal.ca/pub/parallele/gambit/).
Mailing list: gambit@trex.umontreal.ca.
(1998-02-10)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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