Trump vs A - What's the difference?
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(US, in the singular, cards) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
(British, in the plural, cards) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
(cards) A playing card of that suit.
(figuratively) Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.
* 1851 ,
* Thackeray
An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.
(in the plural) The major arcana of the tarot
A card of the major arcana
(cards) To play a trump (on a card of another suit).
(cards) To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump
To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.
* Ben Jonson
(dated) To impose unfairly; to palm off.
* C. Leslie
To supersede.
(obsolete) A trumpet.
* Bible, 1 Corinthians 15:52
To blow a trumpet.
(intransitive, slang, UK) To flatulate.
The first letter of the .
(Marks the first item in a list)
A hypothetical item or person designated first when there are more than one.
The hexadecimal digit for 10
A standard size of dry cell battery slightly larger than a AA battery.
A system of paper sizes with similar proportions, as , etc.
Symbol for the element Argon (Since 1956 has been changed to Ar).
area
ampere, a unit of electrical current.
IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for adenine in genetic code.
IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for alanine in proteins.
Austria
Image:Latin A.png, Capital and lowercase versions of A , in normal and italic type
File:Fraktur letter A.png, Uppercase and lowercase A in Fraktur
File:UncialA-01.svg, A in uncial script
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As a proper noun trump
is a metonymic occupational name for a trumpeter.As a letter a is
the letter a with a tilde.trump
English
Etymology 1
Possibly from Italian trionfi (triumph(s) ).Noun
(en noun)- Diamonds were declared trumps .
- He played an even higher trump .
- All hands voted Queequeg a noble trump ; the captain begged his pardon.
- Alfred is a trump , I think you say.
- (Decker)
Verb
(en verb)- He knew the hand was lost when his ace was trumped .
- to trick or trump mankind
- Authors have been trumped upon us.
- In this election, it would seem issues of national security trumped economic issues.
Synonyms
* (To play a trump card on another suit) ruff * (To get the better of a competitor) outsmartCoordinate terms
* (To play a trump card on another suit) underruff, overruffDerived terms
* the last trump * no trump * overtrump * trump card * trump out * trump up * under trumpEtymology 2
From (etyl) trompe "trumpet" from (etyl) trompe "horn, trump, trumpet", from (etyl) * "trumpet". Akin to (etyl) trumpa, trumba "horn, trumpet", (etyl) tromme "drum", (etyl) trumme "drum". More at (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)- In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible
Verb
(en verb)- And without warning me, as he lay there, he suddenly trumped next to me in bed.
External links
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Translingual
Etymology 1
From (etyl) letter .Letter
See also
(Latn-script) *Symbol
(head)- A . Go to the store. B. Get some food. C. Return home. D. Eat.
- Person A had 5 apples, and person B...
- 0x0000000A
- The value is hexadecimal A 0, or decimal 160.