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Block System - Poker (gambling) and transient (iou)


Block System - Poker (gambling)


1) A form of blind open (A game in which the player to the left of the dealer (the blind) puts in (usually) one chip before getting any cards.) in which large compulsory blind bets start the action. 2) Marking the backs of cards by covering part of the design with ink.

transient (iou)



transient adjective & noun. In sense A.2 also transeunt. L16.
[from Latin transiens, transeunt- pres. pple of transire go across, pass over, formed as TRANS- + ire go.]
A. adjective.
Passing away with time, not durable or permanent; temporary, transitory; esp. passing away quickly or soon, brief, momentary. L16.
transient ischaemic attack Medicine a brief episode of neurological dysfunction, involving weakness, numbness, speech or vision difficulties, etc., resulting from an interruption in the blood supply to the brain or eye.
T. Hardy She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.
Philosophy. Operating beyond itself; having an external effect. Opp. immanent. Cf. TRANSITIVE adjective 3. E17.
Passing through; passing from one thing or person to another. Now rare. E17.
Passing through a place without staying in it, or staying only for a short time; spec. (US colloq.) designating or pertaining to a short-stay guest at a hotel etc. L17.
Music. Of a note, a chord, etc.: introduced in passing, not belonging to the harmony or key of the passage. E19.
Esp. of printed matter: occasional, isolated, one-off, individual. US. M19.
b. noun.
A transient thing or being; something passing or transitory, not permanent; Chemistry a short-lived species, such as a free radical, an excited state, etc. M17.
A person who passes through a place, or stays in it for only a short time. Also, a traveller, a tramp, a migrant worker. colloq. (orig. US). L19.
P. D. James The original tenants..replaced by the transients of the city, the peripatetic young.
Science. A transient variation in current or voltage, or in any waveform, esp. at the beginning of a signal; a momentary disturbance of a system; a very brief surge, esp. (in sound reproduction) of volume. E20.
transiently adverb M17.
transientness noun M17.