Gambit

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  gambit
       n 1: an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the
            speaker [syn: {ploy}]
       2: a maneuver in a game or conversation [syn: {ploy}, {stratagem}]
       3: a chess move early in the game in which the player
          sacrifices minor pieces in order to obtain an advantageous
          position

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  111 Moby Thesaurus words for "gambit":
     alpha, approach, art, artful dodge, artifice, assay, attempt,
     bag of tricks, bid, blind, bluff, bosey, breaking-in, catch,
     chicanery, chouse, conspiracy, contrivance, coup, crack, craft,
     curve, curve-ball, cute trick, deceit, design, device, dirty deal,
     dirty trick, dodge, effort, endeavor, essay, expedient, experiment,
     fakement, fast deal, feint, fetch, ficelle, first, first blush,
     first glance, first impression, first inning, first lap,
     first move, first round, first sight, first stage, first step,
     fling, game, gimmick, go, googly, grift, hocus-pocus, initial,
     initiative, intrigue, jig, joker, juggle, jugglery, knavery,
     le premier pas, lick, little game, maneuver, move, offer,
     opening move, pass, plan, play, plot, ploy, prime, primitiveness,
     primitivity, racket, red herring, ruse, scheme, scurvy trick,
     shift, shot, sleight, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand trick, stab,
     step, stratagem, strategy, stroke, strong bid, subterfuge, tactic,
     tentative, trial, trial and error, trick, trickery, try,
     undertaking, warming-up, whack, whizzer, wile, wily device
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Gambit
       
           A variant of {Scheme} R3.99 supporting the {future}
          construct of {Multilisp} by Marc Feeley
          .  Implementation includes optimising
          compilers for {Macintosh} (with Toolbox and built-in editor)
          and {Motorola} {680x0} {Unix} systems and {HP300}, {BBN}
          {GP100} and {NeXT}.  Version 2.0 conforms to the {IEEE}
          {Scheme} standard.
       
          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)