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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
casino
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
operator
▪ Bally Entertainment Corp. is a hotel and casino operator.
▪ Most casino operators in Las Vegas were dogged by a relatively slow year following boom years in 1993 and 1994.
■ VERB
bring
▪ That ingredient was delivered in the mid-1990s when Donald Trump and other developers brought floating casinos to Gary.
build
▪ Parts of the grandiose Stalin-era building were sold to casino owners to raise money to stave off closure.
▪ The place had been built as a gambling casino in the forties.
gamble
▪ Experience shows that investing in gambling and casino companies is itself risky, and the prospective multiple is a healthy 29.
▪ The place had been built as a gambling casino in the forties.
▪ Did he lose anything by acquiring it as a gambling casino?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But tribes with casinos are starting to use some of their profits to buy land and keep it from being destroyed.
▪ Four questions for corporate finance One man's efficient, interconnected global market is another man's arbitrary and nationally divisive casino.
▪ Las Vegas already mixes casinos with shops and theme resorts.
▪ Legislation to legalize casino gambling could be introduced in Congress next fall.
▪ Macready had men posted on the sidewalks to protect his customers' money on their way to the casino.
▪ Other major players in the Las Vegas casino market came along for the ride.
▪ There were casinos, betting parlors, drug traffic.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Casino

Casino \Ca*si"no\, n.; pl. E. Casinos, It. Casini. [It. casino, dim. of casa house, fr. L. casa cottage. Cf. Cassing.]

  1. A small country house.

  2. A building or room used for meetings, or public amusements, for dancing, etc., sometimes having gambling tables or devices.

  3. A game at cards. See Cassino.

  4. a business establishment for which the primary business is gambling, having various types of gambling tables, such as blackjack or roulette, and usually also slot machines, and sometimes other forms of gambling, such as poker; also, the main room of such an establishment where the gambling is conducted; as, the Trump casinos in Atlantic City.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
casino

1744, "public room for music or dancing," from Italian casino, literally "a little house," diminutive of casa "house," from Latin casa "hut, cottage, cabin," which is of uncertain origin. The card game (also cassino) is attested by that name from 1792. Specifically as "building for aristocratic gambling" by 1820, first in an Italian context.\n\n[T]he term Casino [is] indiscriminately applied to a set of farm offices, a country-seat, a gambling house, and a game of cards ...

[Jane Waldie Watts, "Sketches Descriptive of Italy in the Years 1816 and 1817," London 1820]

Wiktionary
casino

n. 1 A public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling. 2 A card game for two to four players. (gloss: Also spelled cassino.)

WordNet
casino
  1. n. a public building for gambling and entertainment [syn: gambling casino]

  2. a card game in which cards face up on the table are taken with eligible cards in the hand [syn: cassino]

Wikipedia
CASINO

CASINO is a quantum Monte Carlo program developed by the Theory of Condensed Matter group at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. CASINO can be used to perform variational quantum Monte Carlo and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo calculations for both periodic and non-periodic systems.

The principal authors of this program are R. J. Needs, M. D. Towler, N. D. Drummond and P. Lopez Rios.

Casino (film)

Casino is a 1995 American epic crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Sharon Stone. It is based on the non-fiction book Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas by Nicholas Pileggi, who also co-wrote the screenplay for the film with Scorsese. The two previously collaborated on the hit film Goodfellas ( 1990).

The film marks the eighth collaboration between director Scorsese and actor Robert De Niro, following Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), New York, New York (1977), Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1983), Goodfellas (1990), Cape Fear (1991).

In Casino, De Niro stars as Sam "Ace" Rothstein, a Jewish American top gambling handicapper who is called by the Italian Mob to oversee the day-to-day operations at the Tangiers Casino in Las Vegas. His character is based on Frank Rosenthal, who ran the Stardust, Fremont, and Hacienda casinos in Las Vegas for the Chicago Outfit from the 1970s until the early 1980s. Pesci plays Nicholas "Nicky" Santoro, based on real-life Mob enforcer Anthony Spilotro, a made man. Nicky is sent to Vegas to make sure that money from the Tangiers is skimmed off the top and the mobsters in Vegas are kept in line. Sharon Stone plays Ginger McKenna, Ace's scheming, self-absorbed wife, based on Geri McGee.

Casino was released on November 22, 1995, to a mostly positive critical response and was a box office success. Stone's performance was unanimously praised, earning her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Casino (disambiguation)

A casino is a facility that houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities. Casino or The Casino may also refer to:

Casino (Blue Rodeo album)

Casino is the third studio album by Blue Rodeo. It was drummer Mark French's only album with the band.

"Trust Yourself," "After the Rain," and, most significantly, "Til I Am Myself Again" were notable hit singles for the band.

Casino (Al Di Meola album)

Casino is a 1978 album by Latin jazz fusion guitarist Al Di Meola.

Casino (Physical Therapy album)

Casino is the 1997 follow-up to the album Physical Therapy, and revolves around a casino theme which influences some instrumentation and the name of each track. As the second studio album of Physical Therapy, it features sixteen more minutes of material than its predecessor. It is seemingly, at present, their last foray into commercial music. In 1998, "Casino" and "A Night at the Palace" were used on the The Weather Channel's local forecast segment.

Casino (Iris album)

Casino is an EP by Romanian hard rock group Iris.

Casino (band)

Casino is a rock/ alternative band consisting of Adam Zindani (vocals/guitar), Sam Yapp (drums), Jo Crofts (guitar) and Jimi Crutchley (bass guitar). The band was originally formed as Casino in 2003 and changed its name to SpiderSimpson after signing to Polydor in 2006, before reverting to the original name in late 2008 to release its first album The Spider Simpson Incident. The band has a strong and loyal cult following in its home city of Birmingham, England. The band was inactive after the departure of Deavall, who has formed a new band (The High Hurts), and with Zindani being more involved with the Stereophonics with little time left to work with Casino. Currently the band are back in business, they've signed a record deal and recently released an album on Spotify.

Casino (video game)

Casino is an Atari 2600 video game programmed by Bob Whitehead and released in 1978. Supporting up to four players, the game was controlled by the Atari Paddles.

Casino (Alcazar album)

Casino is the first album by Swedish group Alcazar, released in 2000 and produced and managed by Alexander Bard, formerly of Swedish glam-popsters, Army of Lovers. It includes the number-one singles "Crying at the Discoteque" and "Sexual Guarantee",

Casino (computer virus)

The casino computer virus is a malicious virus that upon running the infected file, copies the File Allocation Tables (FATs) to random-access memory (RAM), then deletes the FAT from the hard disk. It challenges the user to a game of Jackpot of which they have 5 credits to play with, hence the name. No matter if they win or lose, the computer shuts down, thereby making them have to reinstall their DOS. The message it shows when it challenges you read(s):

DISK DESTROYER - A SOUVENIR OF MALTA

I have just DESTROYED the FAT on your Disk


However, I have a copy in RAM, and I`m giving you a last chance
to restore your precious data.
WARNING: IF YOU RESET NOW, ALL YOUR DATA WILL BE LOST - FOREVER


Your Data depends on a game of JACKPOT

CASINO DE MALTE JACKPOT

CREDITS: 5
any key to play

The casino computer virus activates on the 15th of January, April, August.

Casino (cocktail)

The Casino is an IBA official cocktail made with gin, maraschino liqueur, orange bitters and fresh lemon juice.

Usage examples of "casino".

Their reports include everything from retail newspaper advertising to casino advertising to airline advertising to insurance marketing.

Out front on the green cement lawn a tiptoed Cupid, wings aflutter, squirted from pouty lips an eternal stream of blue-colored water into a marble pool deep in good-luck coins and casino chips.

He combines ecclesiastical with secular functions, being apostolic administrator and bishop of Hermopolis, and at the same time Grand Almoner of the household and superintendent of the third Salle of the casino.

He prefers a comfortable hotel on the Promenade des Anglais at Nice, where he recovers health and renovates his nervous system by taking daily excursions along the coast to the Casino.

I do not know how it happened, but as we were going into one of these casinos Rigerboos called me loudly by my name, and at that instant a woman, such as one usually finds in these places, came forward and began to gaze at me.

He was in a transport of joy, and begged me to come and sup with him at his casino the day after next, and to bring the girl with me, that the surrender might be made in form.

All the same, when Bev is out in the boat, she fantasizes about the Mississippi, about riverboat cruises and casinos, about fruity cocktails and beer in frozen glasses and maybe watching Mardi Gras from the window of a nice air-conditioned hotel.

She was, as he explained to her and as she was only too ready to believe, unique, a smasheroo, a super-colossal sensation and she would be boffola in any boite, casino, night club, not to mention Technicolor television.

After the second ballet, he came into our box with his lady, and after the usual exchange of compliments the acquaintance was made, and we had to accept supper at his casino.

With some difficulty I made out a little door, which I judged to be the only one by which she could pass, but to go from there to the casino was no small matter, since one was obliged to fetch a wide course, and with one oar I could not do the passage in less than a quarter of an hour, and that with much toil.