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Cyprus game tile
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domino
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN effect ▪ It started a domino effect which exists even today. ▪ As top-tier schools are forced to become less selective, there will be a domino effect . ▪ The domino effect can work for us as well as against us if we ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Domino is a 1998 album by the British new wave group Squeeze . It was the band's twelfth studio album. After a career struggling with various major record labels, the band decided to record and release Domino independently, on Glenn Tilbrook 's own Quixotic ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context games English) A tile divided into two squares, each having 0 to 6 dots or pips (as in dice), used in the game of dominoes. 2 (context politics English) A country that is expected to react to events in a neighboring country, according to the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1801, from French domino (1771), perhaps (on comparison of the black tiles of the game) from the meaning "hood with a cloak worn by canons or priests" (1690s), from Latin dominus "lord, master" (see domain ), but the connection is not clear. Klein thinks ...
Usage examples of domino.
After numerous little jocularities with the harlequins, especially the female ones, I recognized Therese in a domino, and walking up to her as awkwardly as I could I asked her to dance with me.
As the ball was to take place the same evening, I gave the mother a doubloon to get a mask and domino.
Domino la escritura secreta que defiende nuestro arte del indiscreto examen del vulgo.
Her father had given her permission to go to the next ball with me, and she had a domino, but she wanted to speak to me.
I decided to use the ticket, for I felt that I should like to be present at so numerous an assembly, and as I had my domino still by me a mask was all I wanted.
When I had put on her domino and mask I led her forth, and her sister and Donna Ignazia congratulated her on her disguise, saying that anybody would take her for a man.
She lifted her eyes, and gazed at me, as if doubtful whether she knew me or not, as she had only seen me in domino.
I begged him to go and buy me a new domino, and not to come near me in the evening, so that none but he should know who I was.
We sat down to a quiet game of dominoes, and were interrupted by the noisy entrance of Lupin and Frank Mutlar.
It was addressed to Serenissimo Domino Nostro lohanni Quarto, Dci Gratia, Angliae, Franciae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, Novae Angliae et Novae Franciae, Rex, Imperatore, Fidei Defensor, .
With the Domino subtly altering the tones and frequency levels of his voice, the ship out there could analyze it forever without getting anything they could match up against a voiceprint file.
The incredible words stacked up one right behind the other, whap whap whap, like dominoes.
I had no mask on, and I soon found myself attacked by a black domino, whom I knew to be a woman, and as she told me a hundred truths about myself in a falsetto voice, I was interested, and determined on finding out who she was.
Sitting at a small table, with a white cloth, among the half-dozen American soldiers who, having long finished their lunch, were playing cards and dominoes, they ordered bread-soup, an omelette, white wine, brille cheese and their own ration of bully beef which they had brought in tins to be fried with onions.
The count brought me my domino at noon, and after hiding it we went to dine with the countess.