单词 | contract bridge |
释义 | > as lemmascontract bridge g. In the game of auction bridge, an undertaking to make a certain number of tricks; hence contract bridge (formerly contract auction), a form of auction bridge in which only the tricks which the declarer has undertaken to make count towards the game; also elliptically contract. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [noun] > varieties of nullo1893 duplicate1894 auction bridge1903 auction1908 contract1908 duplicate bridge1929 plafond1929 rubber bridge1935 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [noun] > actions or tactics > contract or declaration declaration1895 make1902 contract1908 part score1932 1908 Westm. Gaz. 24 Dec. 14/2 Suppose the contract is two in hearts, and four by cards are made, the contracting side score 32 below the line, and game. If the contract had failed, and say two by cards had been lost, the adversaries would score 200 in their honour column. 1922 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 499/2 ‘Contract Auction’ of which the essential point is that no more tricks can be scored toward game than the declarer has contracted to make. 1927 M. C. Work Contract Bridge i. 5 The Contract player, therefore, is straining for every trick. 1927 M. C. Work Contract Bridge ii. 9 The basic theory of Contract, viz., that Declarer may score below the line (toward game) only as many odd tricks as he has contracted to win. 1927 Observer 10 Apr. 25 Little coteries and sets play variations of Bridge, such as Contract, Cairo, Standard, and so forth. 1929 Punch 10 Apr. 420 ‘Contract bridge’, which is superseding auction bridge on the Continent and in America, has taken a strong hold in Britain. 1929 Observer 24 Nov. Contract has been ‘boomed’ in a way that Auction never was. 1929 M. C. Work Compl. Contract Bridge p. xi Their contract and game were secure from the beginning. 1952 I. Macleod Bridge viii. 100 George Morris, certainly the most..successful money player in this country since Contract started. < as lemmas |
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