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dominoes
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Domino \Dom"i*no\, n.; pl. Dominos or (esp. the pieces for a game) Dominoes. [F. domino, or It. domin[`o], or Sp. domin['o], fr. L. dominus master. The domino was orig. a hood worn by the canons of a cathedral. See Don, Dame.]
A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice.
--Kersey.A mourning veil formerly worn by women.
A kind of mask; particularly, a half mask worn at masquerades, to conceal the upper part of the face. Dominos were formerly worn by ladies in traveling.
A costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe with a hood adjustable at pleasure.
A person wearing a domino.
pl. A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched half of a domino already played
--Hoyle.-
One of the pieces with which the game of dominoes is played.
--Hoyle.fall like dominoes. To fall sequentially, as when one object in a line, by falling against the next object, causes it in turn to fall, and that second object causes a third to fall, etc.; the process can be repeated an indefinite number of times.
Note: The phrase is derived from an entertainment using dominoes arranged in a row, each standing on edge and therefore easily knocked over; when the first is made to fall against the next, it starts a sequence which ends when all have fallen. For amusement, people have arranged such sequences involving thousands of dominoes, arrayed in fanciful patterns.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
the usual form when referring to the game played with dominoes, c.1800; see domino.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (plural of domino English)Category:English plurals 2 Any of several games played by arranging domino tiles on a flat surface.
WordNet
See domino
n. any of several games played with small rectangular blocks [syn: dominos]
Wikipedia
Dominoes (or dominos) is a game played with rectangular "domino" tiles. The domino gaming pieces make up a domino set, sometimes called a deck or pack. The traditional Sino-European domino set consists of 28 dominoes, colloquially nicknamed bones, cards, tiles, tickets, stones, or spinners. Each domino is a rectangular tile with a line dividing its face into two square ends. Each end is marked with a number of spots (also called pips, nips, or dobs) or is blank. The backs of the dominoes in a set are indistinguishable, either blank or having some common design. A domino set is a generic gaming device, similar to playing cards or dice, in that a variety of games can be played with a set.
The earliest mention of dominoes is from Song dynasty China, found in the text Former Events in Wulin. Dominoes first appeared in Italy during the 18th century, and although it is unknown how Chinese dominoes developed into the modern game, it is speculated that Italian missionaries in China may have brought the game to Europe.
The name "domino" is most likely from the resemblance to a kind of carnival costume worn during the Venetian Carnival, often consisting of a black hooded robe and a white mask.
"Dominoes" is a song by American singer Robbie Nevil from his self-titled debut album in 1986.
Written by Nevil with Bobby Hart and Dick Eastman, Nevil recorded the song for his eponymous debut album, and it was released as the second single. The song reached #14 on the U.S. singles chart. MTV featured a portion of the refrain with reworked lyrics to promote their new show at that time: Friday Night Party Zone
Usage examples of "dominoes".
We dispense with all those dominoes Pg 84that have a five or a six on them and limit ourselves to the fifteen that remain, where the double-four is the highest.
I will now give just a few examples of puzzles with playing cards and dominoes, and also go out of doors and consider one or two little posers in the cricket field, at the football match, and the horse race and motor-car race.
In how many different ways may we play six dominoes, from an ordinary box of twenty-eight, so that the numbers on them may lie in arithmetical progression?
It will be seen that the five dominoes are so arranged in proper sequence (that is, with 1 against 1, 2 against 2, and so on), that the total number of pips on the two end dominoes is five, and the sum of the pips on the three dominoes in the middle is also five.
The puzzle is to rearrange the dominoes in the same form so that all of the four sides shall sum to 44.
Remember that the dominoes must be correctly placed one against another as in the game.
This is the smallest summation possible with any selection of dominoes from an ordinary box of twenty-eight.
But the puzzle is to make a selection of eighteen dominoes and arrange them (in exactly the form shown) so that the summations shall be 18 in all the fourteen directions mentioned.
You have been over all the lines once only, and by repeating all these figures in this way, 41—13—30—04—42—21—10—02—23—34, you get an arrangement of the dominoes (without the doubles) which will be perfectly clear.
The dominoes may, therefore, be arranged in a circle in just 264 different ways, leaving out the doubles.
You may start with any domino, except the 4—4 and those that bear a 5 or 6, though only certain initial dominoes may be played either way round.
If we used a box of dominoes extending to 9—9, there would be forty different ways.
The sum of the pips on all the dominoes is 168, and if we wish to make the sides sum to 44, we must take care that the four corners sum to 8, because these corners are counted twice, and 168 added to 8 will equal 4 times 44, which is necessary.
For example, on the left-hand side the string of dominoes from 2—2 down to 3—2 may be reversed, or from 2—6 to 3—2, or from 3—0 to 5—3.
In the meantime they were playing a game called Spotless Dominoes, in which plain pieces of ivory had to be arranged in certain linear patterns.