Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet BLUFF

Definition av BLUFF

1. brant, tvär
2. barsk
3. bluff, bedrägeri
4. bluffa, bedra, dupera
5. (naturgeografi) (brant) udde

Exempel på hur man kan använda BLUFF i en mening

• The history of Manchester began with the civilian settlement associated with the Roman fort (castra) of Mamucium or Mancunium, established in about AD 79 on a sandstone bluff near the confluence of the rivers Medlock and Irwell.
• This might be done, for example, when the first player believes that an opponent has an inferior hand and will not call a direct bet, but that they may attempt to bluff, allowing the first player to win more money than they would by betting straightforwardly.
• A bet for value is in contrast to a bluff or a protection bet (though some bets may have a combination of these motives).
• In poker, a steal is a type of a bluff, a raise during the first betting round made with an inferior hand and meant to make other players fold superior hands because of shown strength.
• It is said that "aggression has its own value", meaning that often aggressive plays can make money with weak hands because of bluff value.
• The city of Fort Worth was established in 1849 as an army outpost on a bluff overlooking the Trinity River.
• The Baton Rouge area owes its historical importance to its strategic site upon the Istrouma Bluff, the first natural bluff upriver from the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico.
• The city is dominated by the monumental domed Missouri State Capitol, which rises from a bluff overlooking the nearby Missouri River to the north; Lewis and Clark with their Corps of Discovery passed the bluff here on their historic expedition upriver in 1804, eventually journeying westward to the Pacific Northwest region and the Pacific Ocean, before Europeans or Americans established any settlement there.
• By extension, the phrase "calling somebody's bluff" is often used outside the context of poker to describe situations where one person demands that another proves a claim, or proves that they are not being deceptive.
• A rock shelter (also rockhouse, crepuscular cave, bluff shelter, or abri) is a shallow cave-like opening at the base of a bluff or cliff.
• At the mouth of the Trempealeau River at its confluence with the Mississippi River, they found a bluff surrounded by water and called it La Montagne qui trempe à l’eau ("mountain steeped in water").
• Although it is the state's busiest river, its run within the county is tranquil, with high bluff escarpments and sandy islands.

Förberedelsen av sidan tog: 238,24 ms.