Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Games The stake that each poker player must put into the pool before receiving a hand or before receiving new cards.
- noun A price to be paid, especially as one's share; cost.
- intransitive verb Games To put (one's stake) into the pool in poker.
- intransitive verb To pay (money or a fee).
- intransitive verb Games To put one's stake into the pool in poker.
- intransitive verb To pay for something.
from The Century Dictionary.
- A prefix of Latin origin, originally only in compounds or derivatives taken from the Latin or formed from Latin elements, as in antecessor, antepenultimate, antemeridian, etc., but now a familiar English formative, meaning before, either in place or in time.
- In heraldry, ingrafted: said of one color or metal broken into another by means of dovetailed, nebulé, embattled, or ragulé edges. Also
enté . - noun In the game of poker, the stake or bet deposited in the pool by each player before drawing new cards; also, the receptacle for the stakes.
- In the game of poker, to deposit stakes in the pool or common receptacle for them: commonly used in the phrase to ante up.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Poker Playing) Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (
ante ) the game begins. - verb To put up (an ante).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A price or cost, as in
up the ante . - noun poker In
poker and other games, the contribution made by all players to thepot before dealing the cards. - verb To
pay the ante inpoker . Often used ante up. - verb To make an investment in money, effort, or time before knowing one's chances.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb place one's stake
- noun (poker) the initial contribution that each player makes to the pot
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Definitely the easy way to up the ante is to add a new trick.
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A better quantification of these effects ex ante is critical.
Erwann Michel-Kerjan: MENA Countries Need to Foster Their Risk Management Capabilities, But How? Erwann Michel-Kerjan 2010
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To say that soldiers have "nothing to complain about ex ante" is to assert that they have already been paid everything they are owed, as though the military service can be reduced to a purely economic transaction.
The Draft: Who Pays the Price?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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A better quantification of these effects ex ante is critical.
Erwann Michel-Kerjan: MENA Countries Need to Foster Their Risk Management Capabilities, But How? Erwann Michel-Kerjan 2010
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The ante is raised to $10,000 and Winn is about to pay it when his son Peter, Jr., 26, comes to the rescue.
“Samuel! There was a rolling wonder in the sound. Ay, there was!” 2008
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Also, in a purely defensive war against an aggressive enemy (like the Falklands) achieving status quo ante is “winning”. blah Says:
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The prohibitionist dreams of some anti-gun types only up the absolutist ante from the NRA wackos.
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My conclusions, therefore, unsatisfactory as I recognize them to be, are that the statu quo ante is still the best solution for the present.
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Cambridge, what is usually called the ante-chapel is really only the space outside the entrance to the choir, occupied nowadays at service time by those who are not members of the college.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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I placed a space before the word ante inside the subpattern because the space is optional just like the rest of the subpattern.
AutoHotkey Community 2009
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