Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who makes known, proclaims, or publishes; one who or that which exhibits or explains.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who makes known or proclaims; that which exhibits.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun bridge The person who wins the bidding and so declares what suit will be trump.
- noun One who
declares . - noun computer science A statement that declares the properties of a variable or contributes to doing so.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who claims to speak the truth
- noun the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps
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Examples
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The only card that will defeat the contract is the ace of clubs, which sets up two club winners in declarer's hand and appears to give back two tricks in clubs for the one you gain in hearts.
A funny game Zia Mahmood 2010
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Now, when you lead a heart, no declarer, that is no ordinary declarer, will place you with yet another ace.
VICTOR MOLLO’S BRIDGE CLUB VICTOR MOLLO 1979
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Now, when you lead a heart, no declarer, that is no ordinary declarer, will place you with yet another ace.
VICTOR MOLLO’S BRIDGE CLUB VICTOR MOLLO 1979
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Now, when you lead a heart, no declarer, that is no ordinary declarer, will place you with yet another ace.
VICTOR MOLLO’S BRIDGE CLUB VICTOR MOLLO 1979
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_b_ To call the declarer's attention to the fact that too many or too few cards have been played to a trick;
Auction of To-day Milton C. Work
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When Iceland held the East-West cards they bid to five diamonds where declarer collected 11 tricks.
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Convinced by all of this that West still had the ♣Q, East switched to his spade in an effort to cut declarer off from dummy's second spade winner before East's trump could be drawn.
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If South discarded on the diamond, preserving his trumps till the bitter end, declarer would throw the club from his hand and lead anything from dummy, claiming the last three tricks with the ♥Q, ♥J and ♥9.
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Cy was exultant after watching Ed, my club's best player, hornswoggle a good declarer out of a vulnerable game.
Bridge Frank Stewart 2010
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Winning in dummy, declarer could now have made the contract by finessing the ♣10, but he tried to cash another spade instead.
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