(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.
Pharaoh
Definition:
(n.) A title by which the sovereigns of ancient Egypt were designated.
(n.) See Faro.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the help of his chancellor Joseph, Pharaoh accumulates vast food reserves during seven good years.
(2) Pharaoh acquires all their modest assets of money, livestock and land.
(3) There is a good lesson from the time of the Pharaohs in Genesis chapter 47 .
(4) Skull radiographs of the pharaoh Seqenenre-Ta'a II with special densitographic techniques have shown that he survived a perforating skull injury.
(5) The nation faces losing further culturally important works, including Poussin's The Infant Moses trampling Pharaoh's Crown (c1645-6) and a 1641 Van Dyck self-portrait, unless rich benefactors can find £26.5m to save them before temporary export bans run out.
(6) The paper analyses the mode of action of the organic chlorine compound Mirex in laboratory colonies of the pharaoh's ant Monomorium pharaonis under the special view of practical use in control measures in comparison with the related insecticide Chlordecone (Kepone).
(7) The pharaoh went to Oxford , the queen to the British Museum, which has loaned her so they can be together again.
(8) Other shows confirmed include the return of Ruth Jones's Stella and a two-part family drama called Moonfleet, about smuggling in small Dorset village, written by Ashley Pharaoh, who worked on Life on Mars.
(9) "When I was born, my grandfather and grandmother said that our pharaohs built the pyramids – but that was all they told us," said Walid Ibrahim.
(10) Aladdin Elaasar, author of The Last Pharaoh: Mubarak and the Uncertain Future of Egypt in the Obama Age, said the Mubaraks own several residences in Egypt, some inherited from previous presidents and the monarchy, and others the president has commissioned.
(11) Later on it was war.” An Egyptian blogger known by the name of Big Pharaoh also watched the Riyadh speech in Cairo.
(12) The tombs nestle in the dunes below the Red Pyramid, considered the pharaohs' first successful attempt at a smooth-sided structure.
(13) What bothers me is that the Pharaoh story highlights an insidious part of the debate which will sooner or later have to be tackled.
(14) The practical points of view for the use of chemosterilants in the control of pharaoh's ant are discussed.
(15) Senebkay's discovery confirms for the first time the existence of a third dynasty of pharaohs that ruled a central area between Egypt's northern and southern kingdoms in about 1600BC.
(16) The Big Pharaoh (@TheBigPharaoh) The leaks summarized in a picture: 2 Google maps showing what allegedly happened to legalize Morsi's incarceration.
(17) It is not going to start getting better.” Gill Pharaoh, a 75-year-old former palliative care nurse, said those words to the Sunday Times not long before she left her home in north London for Switzerland .
(18) The new galleries had to be rebuilt around one gigantic object that was too heavy to move – a massive stone shrine built by the Nubian king Taharqa in 680 BC inside a much older temple, portraying him as a pharaoh worshipping Egyptian gods.
(19) The results from simple choice test experiments with laboratory and field colonies of pharaoh's ants have revealed two behavioural traits that influence the way in which foraging worker ants respond to foods.
(20) It pre-dates Islam or Christianity and is on record since the time of the Pharaoh.