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burn card, burn A card that is removed from the deal to prevent cheating. See main article: burn card. busted An uncompleted hand To lose all of one's chips button Most commonly a marker that indicates the dealer position at the table, but other specialized buttons exist. See main article: button. Also buck or hat. buy-in
A contronym is a word with two opposite meanings. For example, the word cleave can mean "to cut apart" or "to bind together". This feature is also called enantiosemy, [1] [2] enantionymy (enantio-means "opposite"), antilogy or autoantonymy. An enantiosemic term is by definition polysemic.
Burn-in, or screen burn, on display hardware, damage called phosphor burn-in Burning, a synonym for optical disc authoring Burnup , a measure of how much energy is extracted from a primary nuclear fuel source
Opposition is a semantic relation in which one word has a sense or meaning that negates or, in terms of a scale, is distant from a related word. Some words lack a lexical opposite due to an accidental gap in the language's lexicon. For instance, while the word "devout" has no direct opposite, it is easy to conceptualize a scale of devoutness ...
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
In spaceflight, an orbital maneuver (otherwise known as a burn) is the use of propulsion systems to change the orbit of a spacecraft. For spacecraft far from Earth, an orbital maneuver is called a deep-space maneuver (DSM). [1] When a spacecraft is not conducting a maneuver, especially in a transfer orbit, it is said to be coasting.
Burn, baby! Burn!" is a slogan attributed to the 1960s R&B disc jockey Magnificent Montague, which became associated with the 1965 Watts Riots. It can also refer to:
[2] [11] When the injury extends into some of the underlying skin layer, it is a partial-thickness or second-degree burn. [2] Blisters are frequently present and they are often very painful. [2] Healing can require up to eight weeks and scarring may occur. [2] In a full-thickness or third-degree burn, the injury extends to all layers of the ...