(n.) A gambling game at cardds, in whiich all the other players play against the dealer or banker, staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from the pack.
Example Sentences:
(1) If the scenes in Faro are anything to go by he has the Tartan Army’s backing to do precisely that.
(2) Algarve map Sophie Cooke The drive west from Faro airport was easy and we sped along the fast toll-road.
(3) An uncle of one of the crew members from the El Faro says the ship was equipped with modern lifeboats.
(4) But the Faroes deserved to win as they created more chances to score.
(5) Estimates are given of the mean contents of 90Sr and 137Cs in the human diet in the Faroes in 1976.
(6) Birthweights in the Faroe Islands are among the highest in the world.
(7) Large numbers of the mammals are slaughtered each year on the Faroe Islands, an autonomous territory within the kingdom of Denmark .
(8) It wasn’t always comfortable against the Faroe Islands .
(9) Claudio Ranieri Leicester City manager A year ago his candidacy would have felt laughable given he had just lost to the Faroe Islands during a four-game spell with Greece.
(10) The other suspects, all confirmed to be Portuguese citizens, were seen entering the police building in Faro on Tuesday morning.
(11) Detectives led by Redwood will meet with their Polícia Judiciária counterparts in Faro on Tuesday to discuss the request.
(12) "I was is the outskirts of Tórshavn, the Capital of the Faroe Islands earlier today with my 13 year old son - a devoted Liverpool fan," writes Sjúrður Skaale.
(13) At Faro airport there's a scrum of resort reps ready to meet and greet new arrivals.
(14) Estimates are given of the mean contents of 90Sr and 137Cs in the human diet in the Faroes in 1974.
(15) The average work load of the three Faroe Island deckhands was rather moderate; it corresponded to 26--33% of the heart rate reserve (HRR).
(16) The high mercury and selenium values may be explained by the high consumption of pilot whales by the Faroe Islands population.
(17) The Faroes have never qualified for a major tournament but climbed above Finland into fourth place in the six-team Group F, five points behind Hungary in third place.
(18) There's been a red one and, of course, the trademark cream-and-black one, a cardigan version of which was created by its Faroe Islands designers and presented to the duchess.
(19) The commitment rate on the Faroe Islands was 19.2 per 100,000 and 24.2 per 100,000 in Denmark.
(20) A less active elective delivery in the Faroes could not explain this considerable difference.
Fro
Definition:
(adv.) From; away; back or backward; -- now used only in opposition to the word to, in the phrase to and fro, that is, to and from. See To and fro under To.
(prep.) From.
Example Sentences:
(1) Microfilariae were detected fro 2-136 days after inoculation.
(2) In controls the conduit emptied mainly by means of low pressure, to-and-fro activity.
(3) The increase in movement of people both within the highlands of New Guinea and also to and fro between holo- and hyperendemic lowland areas and the highlands by policemen and semi-skilled personnel in one direction and by labourers in the other, together with a great increase in potential breeding sites, were virtually inevitable consequences of the development process as the intense communalism and geographical isolation of the highland people was broken down.
(4) Passive Na+ and K+ effluxes and influxes in the presence of bumetanide were tested fro conformity to the Ussing independence relationship.
(5) The characteristics of the sensor and rate adaptive algorithm included in a new dual chamber rate responsive pacemaker (Relay 294-03, Intermedics, Inc.) were studied by submitting the device to calibrated to-and-fro movements of specific frequencies and peak accelerations by means of a mechanical arm connected to a speed adapter.
(6) We conclude that neither the angulation of the circumflex artery as it appears on a two-dimensional projection nor the proportional diametric stenosis of the lesion can serve as easily assessible predictors fro the success of the procedure.
(7) Arteriovenous differences fro amino acids across kidneys of normal and chronically acidotic rats were measured.
(8) On the basis of hydrodynamic principles, to-and-fro pulsatile flow at large Womersley numbers consists of uniform inner flow and boundary-layer-type flow adjacent to a tube wall.
(9) Tramadol induced no measurable alterations in the electronystagmographic recordings of quick voluntary eye movements or follow-up to-and-fro eye movements.
(10) These contractions resulted in four patterns of barium movement: anterograde propulsion, retrograde propulsion, to-and-fro motion, and peristaltic propulsion.
(11) When the needle is in the lesion, small to-and-fro movements with a minimum of angulation are helpful.
(12) The role of FRO in the pathogenesis of the damage of the erythrocytic membrane after thermal trauma and the protective effect of alpha-tocopherol are discussed.
(13) These results show that: a) for the movements against a load, the extra component of the integrated EMG arising from the initial isometric phase is compensated by the mechanical work resulting from the release of potential elastic energy; b) for the to and fro movements, elastic energy is stored in the stretched series elastic component during the negative work and released during the positive work.
(14) The 22 countries stretching from Morocco to Afghanistan, ranging fro m the tip of Africa to the rim of Asia, present a spectrum of population positions ranging from explicit governmental pronatalist to antinatalist policies to no explicity policy at all.
(15) Lippi's spectre came into sharper focus after the Fiorentina defeat, with whispers across the pages of the football press and furious blogging to and fro on Juve's website - echoing Ranieri's Chelsea days, actually, with most fans urging support for Il Mister and concentration on the matter in hand, whatever the long term.
(16) The relative distribution of total body surface area among four regions selected fro the calculation of a mean skin temperature in the Taiwan monkeys was also determined.
(17) The values fro human specimens obtained from young adults with regard to elastic modulus, ultimate tensile stress, and strain energy to failure were approximately two to three times those for specimens from humans in the sixth decade and older.
(18) Diagnostic criteria for echographic CSF-flow imaging are: 1. flow signals "within" CSF-pathways; 2. to-and-fro movement of CSF (spectral analysis); 3. specific response of CSF-flow to stimuli (respiration, crying, abdominal palpation); 4. dynamic CSF-imaging related to specific anatomical areas of intracranial CSF-pathways.
(19) FRO participation in the mechanisms of reduced erythrocyte osmotic resistance in thermic injury is discussed.
(20) Frozen sections were reacted fro the demonstration of HRP using tetramethylbenzidine as chromagen.