game of lifen.

Brit.

/ɡeɪm əv ˈlʌɪf/, U.S.

/ˌɡeɪm əv ˈlaɪf/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: game n., of prep., life n.

Etymology: < game n. + of prep. + life n. With sense 1 compare French le jeu de la vie (1808 or earlier), German Spiel des Lebens (a1805 or earlier).

1. With the. Life likened to a game, esp. in being a competitive social venture in which personal qualities, strategy, experience, or luck may influence one's chance of success.

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1719 C. Johnson Masquerade 38 We two will play the rest of the Game of Life together with the utmost Success.

1811 G. Colman in J. Palmer Like Master like Man I. Pref. 21 He had the misfortune to begin wrong in the game of life:—it is difficult to recover blots.

1872 J. S. Coyne Woman in Red iii. 53 'Tis my last chance in the game of life;—I'll play it out like a desperate man.

1894 Ld. Wolseley Life Marlborough II. lxxviii. 316 He was no gambler at the game of life, and whether winning or losing he never wagered double or quits.

1936 J. T. Farrell World I never Made v. 68 The O'Neills are proud of their name, and they got as much stuff on the ball in the game of life as old Three-fingered Brown has when he toes the mound.

1946 E. O'Neill Iceman Cometh iv. 225 You've finally got the game of life licked.

1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture i. 15 They had decided long ago that the game of life really was not worth playing, because the inventor of the game kept most of the rules a secret.

2001 Y. Berg Power of Kabbalah (2004) 95 Each one of us is a potential Babe Ruth in the game of life.

2. Mathematics and Computing. Also with capital initials. A particular form of cellular automaton based on a two-dimensional rectilinear array of cells, with two possible states for each cell and a very simple set of rules determining the behaviour of the cells.With the two cell states treated as ‘live’ and ‘dead’ the game can be regarded as modelling changes in a population, hence the name. It can generate a wide variety of interacting, self-reproducing patterns, and has been the subject of numerous computer graphic simulations.

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1970 M. Gardner in Sci. Amer. Oct. 120/3 This month we consider [John] Conway's latest brainchild, a fantastic solitaire pastime he calls ‘life’.]

1974 Amer. Math. Monthly 81 727 John Conway has announced that his ‘Game of Life’ is undecidable.

1989 Nature 14 Dec. 781/1 The ‘Game of Life’..serves to demonstrate how large-scale structures can arise in complicated extended dynamical systems.

1991 Sci. Amer. Jan. 53/1 One may view the game of life as a toy model of a coevolutionary system.

1997 J. Noon Nymphomation (1998) 254 The unravelling of the double helix, cellular automata, complexity theory, the game of life. Each of these we could incorporate into the thinking of the maze.

2000 T. R. J. Bossomaier & D. G. Green Complex Syst. 98 The events in the Game of Life can be described at different levels.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	game of life
释义	game of lifen. Brit. /ɡeɪm əv ˈlʌɪf/, U.S. /ˌɡeɪm əv ˈlaɪf/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: game n., of prep., life n. Etymology: < game n. + of prep. + life n. With sense 1 compare French le jeu de la vie (1808 or earlier), German Spiel des Lebens (a1805 or earlier). 1. With the. Life likened to a game, esp. in being a competitive social venture in which personal qualities, strategy, experience, or luck may influence one's chance of success. ΚΠ 1719 C. Johnson Masquerade 38 We two will play the rest of the Game of Life together with the utmost Success. 1811 G. Colman in J. Palmer Like Master like Man I. Pref. 21 He had the misfortune to begin wrong in the game of life:—it is difficult to recover blots. 1872 J. S. Coyne Woman in Red iii. 53 'Tis my last chance in the game of life;—I'll play it out like a desperate man. 1894 Ld. Wolseley Life Marlborough II. lxxviii. 316 He was no gambler at the game of life, and whether winning or losing he never wagered double or quits. 1936 J. T. Farrell World I never Made v. 68 The O'Neills are proud of their name, and they got as much stuff on the ball in the game of life as old Three-fingered Brown has when he toes the mound. 1946 E. O'Neill Iceman Cometh iv. 225 You've finally got the game of life licked. 1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture i. 15 They had decided long ago that the game of life really was not worth playing, because the inventor of the game kept most of the rules a secret. 2001 Y. Berg Power of Kabbalah (2004) 95 Each one of us is a potential Babe Ruth in the game of life. 2. Mathematics and Computing. Also with capital initials. A particular form of cellular automaton based on a two-dimensional rectilinear array of cells, with two possible states for each cell and a very simple set of rules determining the behaviour of the cells.With the two cell states treated as ‘live’ and ‘dead’ the game can be regarded as modelling changes in a population, hence the name. It can generate a wide variety of interacting, self-reproducing patterns, and has been the subject of numerous computer graphic simulations. ΚΠ 1970 M. Gardner in Sci. Amer. Oct. 120/3 This month we consider [John] Conway's latest brainchild, a fantastic solitaire pastime he calls ‘life’.] 1974 Amer. Math. Monthly 81 727 John Conway has announced that his ‘Game of Life’ is undecidable. 1989 Nature 14 Dec. 781/1 The ‘Game of Life’..serves to demonstrate how large-scale structures can arise in complicated extended dynamical systems. 1991 Sci. Amer. Jan. 53/1 One may view the game of life as a toy model of a coevolutionary system. 1997 J. Noon Nymphomation (1998) 254 The unravelling of the double helix, cellular automata, complexity theory, the game of life. Each of these we could incorporate into the thinking of the maze. 2000 T. R. J. Bossomaier & D. G. Green Complex Syst. 98 The events in the Game of Life can be described at different levels. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1719
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