day game
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- noun
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partido de día
- The baseball team performed well during the day game under the bright sun.
- play day games
- opening day game
Examples
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Growing up in Iowa, there isn't a real "home" team, but we got WGN, so that meant watching the Cubs in the summer for all of their day games, either before the lights were installed at Wrigley or when they only played infrequent night games.
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Take advantage of a situation in Pittsburgh with him because of hurricane sand and canceled the New York marathon over the weekend. They did not cancel this game because it was a Pittsburgh day game, and I thought there was actually no shop in Pittsburgh.
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"It feels nice just to contribute more, even if it's just running now," said Copeland, a sophomore who helped Navy prevail in its 10th straight senior day game.
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During the final inning of what has to have been the most magical day game in the 13-year history of Safeco Field, the Mariners were trying to pull off the impossible Wednesday afternoon.
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It's a day game this Saturday with kickoff at 11:21 AM. I know you might be tempted to skip this week at the Houndstooth or Another Round, but day games against lesser foes are actually a great opportunity to get to know your fellow Bama alums.
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It's a day game this Saturday with kickoff at 11:21 AM. I know you might be tempted to skip this week at the Houndstooth or Another Round, but day games against lesser foes are actually a great opportunity to get to know your fellow Bama alums.
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Many fans prefer to attend a day game instead of a night game because of the nicer weather.
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The local high school held a day game on Saturday, attracting a large crowd of supporters.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The constituent 'day' clearly signals the daytime context, and 'game' can broadly imply an activity, strategy, or skill, so a learner might infer this refers to some daytime activity or approach. However, the specific sense of 'game' as slang for courtship or pickup strategy is informal and culturally loaded, so the full dating/pickup meaning is not reliably derivable by a B1 learner without exposure. Because parts partially cue the concept but the dating-register sense is unpredictable, this is best seen as semi-transparent.
Etymology
Day game paints a clear image: day (sunlight) and game (a sports match) played while the sun is still up, not under stadium lights. So, it means 'a sports game played during daylight hours'.