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Patience Terminology
Games of patience, or (card) solitaires as they are usually called in North America, have their own 'language' of specialised terms such as "building down", "packing", "foundations", "talon" and "tableau". Once learnt they are helpful in describing, succinctly and accurately, how the games are played. Patience games are usually for a single player, although a small number have been designed for two and, in rare cases, three or even four players. They are games of skill or chance or a combination of the two. There are three classes of patience grouped by object. The most frequent object is to arrange the cards either in ascending sequence (e.g. from Ace to King) or descending sequence. Occasionally both forms of sequence are aimed at in the same game. The card forming the starting point of the required sequence is known as the foundation card and the sequence or family is said to be 'built up' on such card. In some cases foundation cards are picked out and placed in posit ...
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7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube (algebra), cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has symbolic associations in religion, mythology, superstition and philosophy. The seven classical planets resulted in seven being the number of days in a week. 7 is often considered lucky in Western culture and is often seen as highly symbolic. Evolution of the Arabic digit For early Brahmi numerals, 7 was written more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase vertically inverted (ᒉ). The western Arab peoples' main contribution was to make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed some tendencies to making the digit more rectilinear. The eastern Arab peoples developed the digit from a form that looked something like 6 to one that looked like an uppercase V. Both modern Arab forms influenced the European form, a two-stroke form cons ...
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Pack
Pack or packs may refer to: Music * Packs (band), a Canadian indie rock band * ''Packs'' (album), by Your Old Droog * ''Packs'', a Berner album Places * Pack, Styria, defunct Austrian municipality * Pack, Missouri, United States (US) * Chefornak Airport, Alaska, US (by ICAO code) Groups of animals or people * Pack (canine), the family structure of African wild dogs, jackals and wolves ** Pack hunter, any animal that predates cooperatively * Cub scouts group, in scouting * Peloton, in road bicycle racing Containment, packaging, and shipping * Pack, a deck of playing cards * Backpack * Cigarette pack * Pack animal or beast of burden, an individual or type of working animal used by humans as means of transporting materials Other uses *Arctic ice pack * Pack (aircraft), P.A.C.K (Pneumatic Air Cycle Kit), a kit containing an air cycle machine that provides air conditioning as part of an aircraft's environmental control system * Pack (compression), a UNIX utility to ...
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Cascade
Cascade, or Cascading may refer to: Science and technology Science * Air shower (physics), a cascade (particle shower) of subatomic particles and ionized nuclei ** Particle shower, a cascade of secondary particles produced as the result of a high-energy particle interacting with dense matter * Cascade, the CRISPR-associated complex for antiviral defense (a protein complex) * Cascade (grape), a type of fruit * Cascade waterfalls, or series of waterfalls * Biochemical cascade, a series of biochemical reactions, in which a product of the previous step is the substrate of the next * Collision cascade, a set of nearby adjacent energetic collisions of atoms induced by an energetic particle in a solid or liquid * Ecological cascade, a series of secondary extinctions triggered by the primary extinction of a key species in an ecosystem * Energy cascade, a process important in turbulent flow and drag by which kinetic energy is converted into heat * Trophic cascade, an interaction that ...
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Stack
Stack may refer to: Places * Stack Island, an island game reserve in Bass Strait, south-eastern Australia, in Tasmania’s Hunter Island Group * Blue Stack Mountains, in Co. Donegal, Ireland People * Stack (surname) (including a list of people with the name) * Parnell "Stacks" Edwards, a key associate in the Lufthansa heist * Robert Stack Pierce (1933–2016), an American actor and baseball player * Robert Stack (1919 – 2003), and American actor and television show host * Brian "Stack" Stevens (1941–2017), a Cornish rugby player Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Stack magazine'', a bimonthly publication about high school sports * ''Stacks'' (album), a 2005 album by Bernie Marsden * Stacks, trailer parks that were made vertical, in the film '' Ready Player One'' Computing * Stack (abstract data type), abstract data type and data structure based on the principle of last in first out * Stack (Haskell), a tool to build Haskell projects and manage their dependencies * Stac ...
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Grace
Grace may refer to: Places United States * Grace, Idaho, a city * Grace (CTA station), Chicago Transit Authority's Howard Line, Illinois * Little Goose Creek (Kentucky), location of Grace post office * Grace, Carroll County, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Grace, Laclede County, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Grace, Mississippi, an unincorporated community * Grace, Montana, an unincorporated community * Grace, Hampshire County, West Virginia * Grace, Roane County, West Virginia Elsewhere * Grace (lunar crater), on the Moon * Grace, a crater on Venus People with the name * Grace (given name), a feminine name, including a list of people and fictional characters * Grace (surname), a surname, including a list of people with the name Religion Theory and practice * Grace (prayer), a prayer of thanksgiving said before or after a meal * Divine grace, a theological term present in many religions * Grace in Christianity, the benevolence shown by God t ...
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Move
Move or The Move may refer to: Brands and enterprises * Move (company), an American online real estate company * Move (electronics store), a defunct Australian electronics retailer * Daihatsu Move, a Japanese car * PlayStation Move, a motion controller for the PlayStation 3 Government and politics * Emigration * Immigration * MOVE (Hungary), or Hungarian National Defence Association, a 1919–1945 fascist group * MOVE (Philadelphia organization), an activist organization founded in 1972 Science and technology * Motion (physics) * Move (game theory), an element of game strategy * Move α, a linguistics concept developed by Noam Chomsky * move (command), a shell command * Move, a state transition of a finite state machine * mv (Unix) (short for ''move''), a Unix command Arts and entertainment Film and television * ''Move'' (1970 film), an American comedy film directed by Stuart Rosenberg * ''Move'' (2012 film), a German comedy film directed by Dietrich Brüggemann * ' ...
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Spades (suit)
Spades () () is one of the four playing card suits in the standard French-suited playing cards. It has the same shape as the Leaves (suit), leaf symbol in German-suited playing cards but its appearance is more akin to that of an upside down black Hearts (card suit), heart with a stalk at its base. It symbolises the Pike (weapon), pike or halberd, two medieval weapons, but is actually an adaptation of the German suit symbol of Leaves (suit), Leaves created when French suits were invented around 1480.Dummett (1980), p. 22. In Contract bridge, bridge, spades rank as the highest suit. In Skat (card game), skat and similar games, it is the second-highest suit. Name The word "Spade" is probably derived from the Old Spanish ''spada'' meaning "Swords (suit), sword" and suggests that Spanish suits were used in England before French suits. The French name for this suit, ("pike"), meant, in the 14th century, a weapon formed by an iron spike placed at the end of a Pike (weapon), pike. In ...
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Clubs (suit)
Clubs () () is one of the four playing card suits in the standard French-suited playing cards. The symbol was derived from that of the suit of Acorns (suit), Acorns in a German-suited playing cards, German deck when French suits were invented, around 1480. In Skat (card game), Skat and Doppelkopf, Clubs are the highest-ranked suit (whereas Diamonds (suit), Diamonds and Bells (suit), Bells are the trump suit in Doppelkopf). In Contract bridge, Bridge, Clubs are the lowest suit. Name Its original French language, French name is which means "clover" and the card symbol depicts a three-leafed clover leaf. The Italian language, Italian name is ("flower"). However, the English language, English name "Clubs" is a translation of ''basto'', the Spanish name for the suit of batons (suit), batons, suggesting that Spanish-suited cards were used in England before French suits were invented. In Germany, this suit is known as ("cross"), especially in the International Skat (card game), Ska ...
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