[1] : 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
see also:
gambol 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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
see also:
ploy stratagem 

[3] : 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

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

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
     
     
see also:
scheme future multilisp macintosh motorola 680x0 
unix hp300 bbn gp100 next 
ieee pvm lt;ftp://acorn.cs.brandeis.edu/distgt; lt;ftp://ftp.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/amiga/fish/f7/ff764/gambit_terpgt; lt;ftp://ftp.iro.umontreal.ca/pub/parallele/gambit/gt; 

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