gambit

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

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

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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 The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Gambit

   <language> A variant of {Scheme} R3.99 supporting the {future}
   construct of {Multilisp} by Marc Feeley
   <[email protected]>.  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: [email protected].

   (1998-02-10)

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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