| 单词 | war-game |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswar-game war-game n. = kriegspiel n.; also attributive and figurative; also used of any game simulating war, esp. an elaborate game played with model soldiers, or of any exercise by which a military strategy is examined or tested. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > drill or training > [noun] > type of drill or training sham fight1598 field exercise1616 martinet1677 field evolutions1789 foot drill1795 goose-step1806 war-game1828 rope drill1833 field training1836 repetition training1859 skeleton drill1876 drill-down1889 Beast Barracks1896 basic training1898 monkey motion1909 assault course1915 TEWT1942 workup1971 Taceval1977 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > table game > other table games > [noun] > war game war-game1828 kriegspiel1877 war-gaming1954 gaming1955 1828 A. B. Granville St. Petersburgh II. 75 The ‘war-game’ table, on which the present Emperor, when Grand-duke, used to play. 1891 Tablet 17 Oct. 613 A struggle more serious than that of any mere clerical war-game. 1910 H. G. Wells New Machiavelli (1911) i. iii. 84 The spectacle of volunteer officers fighting the war game in Caxton Hall. 1951 D. Knight In Deep (1964) 92 The cadets..carrying out one of the prescribed war games under the direction of student squad leaders. 1966 Punch 6 July 26/2 Entertaining incidental scenes (the children's war games, the husband's home movies, haggling over the junk) keep interest always alive. 1967 Guardian 16 Oct. 8/5 The National Wargame Championships organised by the British Model Soldier Society. 1970 Time 5 Oct. 13 At one point Nixon told Kissinger: ‘Let's you and me war-game this,’ and they worked the plans over to see, as Nixon put it, ‘where the weak points might be.’ 1975 Times 2 June 13/1 Politicians of all parties cooped up in..Westminster have become so absorbed in their own war-games that they have lost touch with the wider world. war-game war-game v. (transitive) to examine or test (a strategy or the like). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > make experiment of or with [verb (transitive)] > make trial run of road test1890 dry-run1949 war-game1981 dogfood1997 1981 Washington Post 8 Nov. l1/6 ‘Well,’ Wakko said, ‘I've got to go back to work. We're war-gaming an LNW in Monaco.’ < as lemmas |
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