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card game

kɑrd geɪm
WordNet
Quarrel broke out between the eight card players who played the card game quadrille at two tables. Napoleon is grabbed by the collar by an angry Spaniard. On the left, the English King George III watches the battle with a telescope. Frederick William III, King of Prussia and Tsar Alexander I look on in alarm. On the right, the Austrian emperor Francis II grabs his hat and sword, Pope Pius VII has fallen from his chair and is lying on the ground. The Dutchman is preparing to leave. Cartoon of the political situation in Europe in 1808. Continuation of the print of 1806.
Quarrel broke out between the eight card players who played the card game quadrille at two tables. Napoleon is grabbed by the collar by an angry Spaniard. On the left, the English King George III watches the battle with a telescope. Frederick William III, King of Prussia and Tsar Alexander I look on in alarm. On the right, the Austrian emperor Francis II grabs his hat and sword, Pope Pius VII has fallen from his chair and is lying on the ground. The Dutchman is preparing to leave. Cartoon of the political situation in Europe in 1808. Continuation of the print of 1806.
  1. (n) card game
    a game played with playing cards
Illustrations
Cartoon with King George IV playing the card game whist with Lord and Lady Conyngham and their daughter. The king spent a lot of time with them while the palaces were renovated for a lot of money. Walls depict Buckingham House and Windsor Castle palaces with the cost of the renovation listed.
Cartoon with King George IV playing the card game whist with Lord and Lady Conyngham and their daughter. The king spent a lot of time with them while the palaces were renovated for a lot of money. Walls depict Buckingham House and Windsor Castle palaces with the cost of the renovation listed.
Oval representation of a group at a table playing a game of cards by the light of a single candle. In the middle is a lady who is helped by a gentleman to determine her next move. Behind her is a man who shows the woman's cards with a mirror to the player opposite her. To the right of the table is a harp player. Around the scene a border in Latin.
Oval representation of a group at a table playing a game of cards by the light of a single candle. In the middle is a lady who is helped by a gentleman to determine her next move. Behind her is a man who shows the woman's cards with a mirror to the player opposite her. To the right of the table is a harp player. Around the scene a border in Latin.
The face. Two men are playing a card game. The print is part of a series of five prints with the five senses.
The face. Two men are playing a card game. The print is part of a series of five prints with the five senses.
Interior of an inn. Men around a table are playing a game of cards. On the left, a boy holds up the mirror for a barber trimming a man's mustache. Another man looks out through a telescope. A man enters the inn through the door.
Interior of an inn. Men around a table are playing a game of cards. On the left, a boy holds up the mirror for a barber trimming a man's mustache. Another man looks out through a telescope. A man enters the inn through the door.
April card or card game from Momus. Sheet with a complete set of 52 playing cards, each card with a depiction and a verse related to the wind trade of 1720. Print 65 in the series The Great Scene of Folly with cartoons of the Wind trade or Actiehandel from 1720. The sheet comes with a printed statement of the performances.
April card or card game from Momus. Sheet with a complete set of 52 playing cards, each card with a depiction and a verse related to the wind trade of 1720. Print 65 in the series The Great Scene of Folly with cartoons of the Wind trade or Actiehandel from 1720. The sheet comes with a printed statement of the performances.
Three men are playing a card game. In the background a fourth man is leaning on a bale of hay.
Three men are playing a card game. In the background a fourth man is leaning on a bale of hay.
During a card game at an inn, one of the players lights his pipe. In the background a group of men and an owl on a stick.
During a card game at an inn, one of the players lights his pipe. In the background a group of men and an owl on a stick.
Two tables with four card players at each table who play the card game quadrille. Left Frederick William III, King of Prussia, Tsar Alexander I, English King George III and the Spanish King Charles IV. On the right Napoleon, the Austrian Emperor Francis II, a Dutchman and Pope Pius VII. The Dutchman says he got a king (Louis Napoleon) without asking for it. Cartoon on the political situation in Europe in 1806.
Two tables with four card players at each table who play the card game quadrille. Left Frederick William III, King of Prussia, Tsar Alexander I, English King George III and the Spanish King Charles IV. On the right Napoleon, the Austrian Emperor Francis II, a Dutchman and Pope Pius VII. The Dutchman says he got a king (Louis Napoleon) without asking for it. Cartoon on the political situation in Europe in 1806.
Quotations
Finley Peter Dunne
A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.
Finley Peter Dunne
Norman Cousins
Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.
Norman Cousins
Jawaharlal Nehru
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Usage in the news

The card room's owners want to allow games on the top floor of the M8trix' 165-foot tower with sweeping views to offer a unique, luxurious alternative to the ground-floor gambling . insidebayarea.com

Willis made nine consecutive starts before relinquishing the job in May Since then, the only interruption to Hamid's starting grip was a one-game suspension for a red card in Houston in July. ashingtonpost.com

GOP breaking rules on "fiscal cliff" card game. cbsnews.com

Friendship, money, greed meet in 'Magic: The Gathering' fantasy card game. tsp.com

American Hockey League president Dave Andrews keeps an uncut sheet of souvenir hockey cards from the 2004-05 league all-star game in his office. blog.syracuse.com

Michael Bublé was on the lineup card for the Kevin Bieksa Buddies charity game Wednesday night but not in the lineup. vancouversun.com

Werth's home run for Washington forces Game 5 against Cards. tahlequahdailypress.com

Werth's homer for Nats forces Game 5 against Cards. timesleader.com

House of cards emerges in zoning-change game. chicagotribune.com

Instead of having their season end in such a rude and shocking fashion, they would have met the Tampa Bay Rays in a one-game wild-card playoff. espn.go.com

Ever had an incomplete card game play in your head non-stop for 3 days. t-g.com

I was barely able to sleep this weekend with this incessant game similar to solitaire flipping cards during my conversations or while trying to sleep. t-g.com

St Louis Cardinals wild card playoff game. advertiser-tribune.com

MLB's first one-game wild-card playoff was not staged without controversy. espn.go.com

Tracking sex offenders, video game trading cards & Interstate 70. ktvotv3.com

Usage in scientific papers

Consider the following (random) game: a deck of N cards is divided into several piles.
Random Bulgarian solitaire

Suppose there are two players - A and B going to play the following mindless card game.
Random patterns generated by random permutations of natural numbers

It is like a simple card game of ‘patience’.
Random Matrices, the Ulam Problem, Directed Polymers & Growth Models, and Sequence Matching

It turns out that not only the backward causation makes perfect sense in some models of possible reality, but that Nielsen and Ninomiya really have a chance to close LHC by a card game.
LHC card games: bringing about retrocausality?

Firstly, it asserts that there is a parallel universe in which the Nielsen and Ninomiya’s card game has been already played and as a result of the game’s outcome the analog of LHC was closed (however this does not prove that Nielsen and Ninomiya’s imaginary action theory is true.
LHC card games: bringing about retrocausality?

Usage in literature

Then we began our game of cards. "Indian Ghost Stories" by S. Mukerji

If he possessed a fault it was a love for a game of cards. "Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland" by Joseph Tatlow

Like that game of cards where you pretend you've got aces when you haven't. "Five Children and It" by E. Nesbit

And if you play a poor game of cards to-night I'll take away your portfolio. "The Princess Elopes" by Harold MacGrath

Gallito, you'd better lay out the cards and let's get down to our game. "The Black Pearl" by Mrs. Wilson Woodrow

A new and fully revised and much-enlarged edition of this foremost classic, best teacher, and wisest companion as to the most enjoyable game of cards. "The Olden Time Series, Vol. 3: New-England Sunday" by Henry M. Brooks

Jane and I led Mary away through a side door and the king called for de Longueville to finish the interrupted game of cards. "When Knighthood Was in Flower" by Charles Major

There was only one game at cards, and that was whist. "Two Knapsacks" by John Campbell

The doctor played games of cards with our host, but the united efforts of P. and myself failed to discover any method or system in the game. "The Land of the Black Mountain" by Reginald Wyon

You stacked cards twice to-night, but the last time I beat you fairly at your own game. "Bob Hampton of Placer" by Randall Parrish

Usage in poetry
He often saddled and hit the trail,
And came up to town to get his mail,
As well as to meet some jolly pards
And enjoy a quiet game of cards.
"Bill Springer's Hand" by Frank Maynard
Sometimes I hear fine ladies sing,
Sometimes I smoke and drink with men;
Sometimes I play at games of cards—
Judge me to be no strong man then.
"Strong Moments" by William H Davies
Curse me the fiddling, twiddling diplomats,
Haggling here, plotting and hatching there,
Who make the kind world but their game of cards,
Till millions die at turning of a hair.
"A Curse For Kings" by Vachel Lindsay
In the scene that ensued
I did not take a hand,
But the floor it was strewed
Like the leaves on the strand
With the cards that Ah Sin had been hiding,
In the game "he did not understand."
"Plain Language From Truthful James" by Francis Bret Harte
French Deck. Solitary stroker of cards. He
dealt himself a hand. Turn stills of the past in
unending permutations, shuffle and begin. Sort
the images again. And sort them again. This
game reveals germs of truth, and death.
"Notes On Vision" by James Douglas Morrison Author object (324)
That done it. If I'd let the parson gone
An' come the mild an' gentle, sure enough,
She'd 'ad the willies. When the dames take on,
The game's to treat 'em rough.
That's wot I've 'card. It woke Rose up, all right,
An' full uv fight.
"Rose" by C J Dennis Author object (84)