Trump vs Tuberculosis - 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.
(pathology) An infectious disease of humans and animals caused by a species of mycobacterium, usually , mainly infecting the lungs where it causes tubercles characterized by the expectoration of mucus and sputum, fever, weight loss, and chest pain, and transmitted through inhalation or ingestion of bacteria.
As a proper noun trump
is a metonymic occupational name for a trumpeter.As a noun tuberculosis is
(pathology) an infectious disease of humans and animals caused by a species of mycobacterium, usually , mainly infecting the lungs where it causes tubercles characterized by the expectoration of mucus and sputum, fever, weight loss, and chest pain, and transmitted through inhalation or ingestion of bacteria.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.