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Casino


Definition:

  • (n.) A small country house.
  • (n.) A building or room used for meetings, or public amusements, for dancing, gaming, etc.
  • (n.) A game at cards. See Cassino.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is the only fully-fledged casino to open in the region, outside Lebanon.
  • (2) Besides, Francis says, once their reformation had gone on longer than their initial career, the rest of the band were starting to feel wary about just playing the old material, particularly when they found themselves booked to play a Canadian casino, the kind of venue that is traditionally the preserve of oldies acts: "It was just sort of symbolic, like ha-ha, here we are, at the casino.
  • (3) Casino Royale, whose rights had been individually sold off by Fleming in 1955, eventually passed to Eon in 1999 as a result of an agreement between Eon’s backers MGM and rival Hollywood studio Sony – thereby clearing the way for the 2006 version.
  • (4) In a sideways reference to his own description of investment banks as casinos, King acknowledged it is almost impossible to measure risk and for regulators to keep up.
  • (5) But living in modern Britain feels like being one of a family of anxious, squabbling children whose parents have abandoned us to get drunk at the casino.
  • (6) The deal gave Penn a Las Vegas casino for a fraction of what it cost to build the 390-room resort.
  • (7) Adelson has touted the merits of a Trump trip to Israel and is working with conservative allies to lay the groundwork for a visit this summer, according to multiple sources close to the casino owner.
  • (8) He is totally comfortable around Wall Street and bankers.” Trump’s effort to characterize himself as without obligation to the financial sector despite his long record of loans and debt restructuring during episodic turbulence in his business career, including the bankruptcy of Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts in 2004, is likely to raise eyebrows.
  • (9) "Our longer-term strategic objective is to become the market leader in online poker, casino, sports and bingo."
  • (10) By stepping back from some of the more radical solutions suggested before the election – such as the complete separation of high street banks from "casino" investment banks proposed by business secretary Vince Cable – the commission left the banks "secretly quite pleased", according to Bruce Packard, banks analyst at Seymour Pierce.
  • (11) The incident occurred inside an elevator at an Atlantic City casino in February, when Rice and Janay Rice were engaged.
  • (12) He used his Daily Telegraph column to challenge the prevailing wind in the wake of the Libor rate-rigging scandal by warning against regulating banks to "the point that they are too nervous to lend" or getting rid of "casino" investment banking to focus instead on "good old high-street stuff".
  • (13) Relying on Turner and his successors to patrol the floor of the casino perfectly is asking for trouble.
  • (14) A 1981 report by a New Jersey regulator also shows a $7.5m loan from the patriarch, and years later he bought $3.5m in gambling chips to help his son pay off the debts of a failing casino, which was found to have broken the law by accepting them .
  • (15) Combined with Jewish retirees, blacks and white casino workers, Latinos form the Democratic base in and around Las Vegas.
  • (16) Icahn bought Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s troubled New Jersey casino operations out of bankruptcy in March.
  • (17) With a major strategic industry on the point of a collapse, the prime minister went on holiday , the chancellor was lying low after his catastrophic budget, and the business secretary had jetted off to laud the free market in an Australian casino.
  • (18) It will promote an environment that is consistent with effective competition; it will challenge abusive monopoly behaviour, take steps to promote competition where customers are being disadvantaged (for instance, in retail banking) and promote long-term investment rather than the casino capitalism that has disadvantaged the UK’s economy and social cohesion.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest On the BBC’s Newsnight programme Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, forgets the name of the Labour’s small businesses leader, Bill Thomas.
  • (19) That's more moral centre, or law-enforcement presence, than you'll find in GoodFellas and Casino combined.
  • (20) Casino Royale is arguably his best book, and when eventually it was filmed with Daniel Craig in 2006 (there had been a sad, jokey, non-canonical version in 1967), it was unquestionably the closest the movie series has come to capturing the spirit of Fleming's early work.

Combine


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous substance, as by chemical union.
  • (v. t.) To bind; to hold by a moral tie.
  • (v. i.) To form a union; to agree; to coalesce; to confederate.
  • (v. i.) To unite by affinity or natural attraction; as, two substances, which will not combine of themselves, may be made to combine by the intervention of a third.
  • (v. i.) In the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate number of pips equals those of the card played.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) From 1982 to 1989, bronchoplasty or segmental bronchoplasty and pulmonary arterioplasty in combination with lobectomy and segmentectomy were performed for 9 patients with central type lung carcinoma.
  • (2) Combinations of maximum amounts of glucagon and the cyclic nucleotide did not produce a greater effect than either agent alone.
  • (3) Combination therapy was most effective in patients receiving HCTZ prior to enalapril.
  • (4) Lucy and Ed will combine coverage of hard and breaking news with a commitment to investigative journalism, which their track record so clearly demonstrates”.
  • (5) The combined immediate and delayed responses to fleas in the dog are as observed by other investigators in man and guinea pigs.
  • (6) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
  • (7) Recently, it has been shown that radiation therapy, alone or combined with chemotherapy, can be successful.
  • (8) More than 2 months after the combined treatment were required for the suppression.
  • (9) By combined histologic and cytologic examinations, the overall diagnostic rate was raised to 87.7%.
  • (10) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.
  • (11) The combined analysis of pathogenesis and genetics associated with the salmonella virulence plasmids may identify new systems of bacterial virulence and the genetic basis for this virulence.
  • (12) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
  • (13) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
  • (14) Classical treatment combining artificial delivery or uterine manual evacuation-oxytocics led to the arrest of bleeding in 73 cases.
  • (15) Acquired drug resistance to INH, RMP, and EMB can be demonstrated in M. kansasii, and SMX in combination with other agents chosen on the basis of MIC determinations are effective in the treatment of disease caused by RMP-resistant M. kansasii.
  • (16) When the data correlating DHT with protein synthesis using both labelling techniques were combined, the curves were parallel and a strong correlation was noted between DHT and protein synthesis over a wide range of values (P less than 0.001).
  • (17) Infection with opportunistic organisms, either singly or in combination, is known to occur in immunocompromised patients.
  • (18) Side effect incidence in patients treated with the paracetamol-sobrerol combination (3.7%) was significantly lower than that observed in subjects treated with paracetamol (6.1% - P less than 0.01), salicylics (25.1% - P less than 0.001), pyrazolics (12.6% - P less than 0.001), propionics (20.3%, P less than 0.001) or other antipyretics (17.9% - P less than 0.001).
  • (19) Because of the small number of patients reported in the world literature and lack of controlled studies, the treatment of small cell carcinoma of the larynx remains controversial; this retrospective analysis suggests that combination chemotherapy plus radiation offers the best chance for cure.
  • (20) Because it has been suggested that the lathyrogen, BAPN, may stimulate the release of proteases, the protease inhibitors Trasylol and epsilon-aminocaproic acid (EACA) were given alone or in combination to BAPN-treated rats.

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