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Definition: Faro |
FaroNoun1. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "faro" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1637. (references) |
Note: Faro \Far"o\, noun. [Said to be so called because the Egyptian king Pharaoh was formerly represented upon one of the cards.]. (Websters 1913) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
FARO | English | Flare Activated Radiation Observatory | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Although both Basset and Faro were forbidden in France, on severe penalties, yet these games still continued in great vogue in England during the 18th century, especially Faro; for the alleged reasons that it was easy to learn, that it appeared to be very fair, and, lastly, that it was a very quiet game. It was, however, the most dangerous game for the destruction of families ever invented. The Faro bankers seem to have employed some 'gentlemen' to give a very favourable report of the game to the town, and so every one took it upon trust without further inquiry. Faro was the daughter of Basset -- both alike notorious frauds, there being no one, except professed gamblers, who could be said to understand the secrets of these games.
Faro was played with an entire pack of cards, and admitted of an indeterminate number of players, termed 'punters,' and a 'banker.' Each player laid his stake on one of the 52 cards.
The banker held a similar pack, from which he drew cards, one for himself, placed on the right, and the other, called the carte anglaise, or English card, for the players, placed on the left.
The banker won all the money staked on the card on the right, and had to pay double the sums staked on those on the left. Certain advantages were reserved to the banker: -- if he drew a doublet, that is, two equal cards, he won half of the stakes upon the card which equalled the doublet; if he drew for the players the last card of the pack, he was exempt from doubling the stakes deposited on that card.
Suppose a person to put down 20s. upon a card when only eight are in hand; the last card was a cipher, so there were four places to lose, and only three to win, the odds against being as 4 to 3.
If 10 cards only were in, then it was 5 to 4 against the player; in the former case it was the seventh part of the money, whatever it was, £1 or £100; in the latter case, a ninth. The odds from the beginning of the deal insensibly stole upon the player at every pull, till from the first supposed 4 per cent. it became about 15 per cent.
At the middle of the 18th century the expenses of a Faro bank, in all its items of servants, rent, puffs, and other incidental charges of candles, wine, arrack-punch, suppers, and safeguard money, &c., in Covent Garden, amounted to £1000 per annum.
Throughout this century Faro was the favourite game. 'Our life here,' writes Gilly Williams to George Selwyn in 1752, 'would not displease you, for we eat and drink well, and the Earl of Coventry holds a Pharaoh-bank every night to us, which we have plundered considerably.' Charles James Fox preferred Faro to any other game.
Faro is:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Faro."
Synonym: FaroSynonym: Gambling. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Intention | Speculation, venture, stake, game of chance; mere shot, random shot; blind bargain, leap in the dark; pig in a poke; (uncertainty); fluke, potluck; faro bank; flyer; limit. |
Drawing lots; sortilegy, sortition; sortes, sortes Virgilianae; rouge et noir, hazard, ante, chuck-a-luck, crack-loo, craps, faro, roulette, pitch and toss, chuck, farthing, cup tossing, heads or tails cross and pile, poker-dice; wager; bet, betting; gambling; the turf. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Faro |
| English words defined with "faro": Faro bank ♦ Pharo. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "faro": Pelorus. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Faro" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Basque (beacon, do to, lighthouse, make to), Esperanto (action), Italian (beacon, flood light, floodlight, headlight, light, lighthouse, projector), Papiamen (lighthouse), Portuguese (flair, trail, wind), Serbo-Croatian (faro), Spanish (beacon, headlight, lamp, lantern, light, lighthouse). |
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Screenplays | He's a grand knight in the Knights of Columbus, and he only goes out to play faro. Sometimes plays 15 or 20 hours at a time, just him against the house. (The Sting; writing credit: David S. Ward) | |
Movie/TV Titles | La Luz de nuestro faro (1968) Thiela sto faro (1950) O Liceu Central de Faro (1932) Faro Nell (1929) El Faro de Alejandría (2002) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Dealing faro. Las Vegas, Nevada.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders, Pie Town, New Mexico.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Faro Caudill drawing water from his well, Pie Town, New Mexico.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The Faro Caudill [family] eating dinner in their dugout, Pie Town, New Mexico.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Dugout house of Faro Caudill, homesteader with Mt. Allegro in the background, Pie Town, New Mexico.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Worker Rights | Portugal | The greatest problems were reported in Braga, Porto, and Faro and tended to occur in the clothing, footwear, construction, and hotel industries. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Faro" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Faro" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 60% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 40% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "faro" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Faro | Last name | 170 | 47,484 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | Faro Technologies, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "faro": Faro bank. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "faro"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | lojë me letra (cards). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | вид игра на карти (nap, old maid, pontoon, seven-up, slapjack, snap, spoil-five). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | karetní hra (cinch, euchre, lansquenet, omber, whist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | faro (faro-Brussels beer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | faro (faro-Brussels beer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | faro (faro-Brussels beer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | faro (faro-Brussels beer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Faro (faro-Brussels beer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φαραώ (pharaoh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fáraó (pharaoh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | faraone (pharaoh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arofay faraó (pharisaic), pátio de fazenda. (various references) faraon (pharaoh), stos (Basset). (various references) фараон (pharaoh). (various references) faro. (various references) faraón (pharaoh). (various references) farao (pharaoh). (various references) kâğıdı dağıtana karşı oynanan kâğıt oyunu, bir iskambil oyunu. (various references) фараон (pharaoh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "faro": faros, farouche. (additional references) | |
Words containing "faro": fanfaron, fanfaronade, fanfaronades, fanfarons. (additional references) | |
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"Faro" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Affo, afor, afri, faar, Fabra, Fabron, faco, Facom, fado, Fadog, fadot, fago, fagr, Fahr, fairo, fajr, falo, fano, fara, farao, farb, farc, Fardo, Fardoe, farg, fari, farib, Fariq, Farjon, fark, farlo, Farlow, Farn, Farnol, faroe, faroh, faron, Farook, Farooqi, farot, Farouz, farow, farr, Farra, Farre, Farro, Farrol, Farron, Faruk, farum, Faruqi, farx, fary, fato, Fatou, faura, favo, favre, faxo, fayo, febru, Feco, fedo, femo, feor, ferno, fero, feroe, feron, Feroz, feuo, fido, fiero, fior, fireo, Firoz, Forio, forno, forro, fraom, frato, fratri, frco, froo, froq, Ftao, Fugro, furro, fyro, jaro, laro, rafo, varo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "faro" (pronounced fe"rō) |
| 4 | f e" r ō | Pharaoh. |
| 3 | -e" r ō | aero, bolero, bracero, Caballero, embarcadero, marrow, Montero, narrow, sombrero, sparrow, Taro, Yarrow. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: fora. | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-o-r" | |
-1 letter: arf, far, for, fro, oaf, oar, ora. | |
-2 letters: ar, fa, of, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-o-r" | |
+1 letter: afore, faros, favor, flora, foram, foray, sofar. | |
+2 letters: afford, factor, farrow, favors, favour, fedora, femora, flavor, florae, floral, floras, foamer, foliar, forage, forams, forays, forbad, forgat, formal, format, loafer, orfray, safrol, shofar, sofars. | |
+3 letters: aciform, affords, affront, airflow, airfoil, alforja, aliform, ausform, factors, factory, fagoter, faitour, fanwort, farrago, farrows, favored, favorer, favours, fedoras, femoral, feodary, fibroma, flavors, flavory, flavour, floater, florals, foamers, foamier, foraged, forager, forages, foramen, forayed, forayer, forbade, forbear, forearm, forebay, foreman, forepaw, foreran, foresaw, forgave, formals, formant, formate, formats, formula, forsake, forward, foulard, frogman, fromage, frontal, froward, hayfork, insofar, loafers, nonfarm, oarfish, offramp, orfrays, overfar, overfat, profane, rakeoff, refloat, saffron, safrole, safrols, shofars, wolfram. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 61 72 6F |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .- .-. --- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01110010 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a r o |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 0072 006F |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40678481 |
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