* Wildcard ( comics ), a fictional Marvel character

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In the Wildcard Round they hosted a playoff game for the first time, defeating the Cincinnati Bengals 31-10.

* Wildcard DNS record, a record in a DNS zone file that will match all requests for non-existent domain names

* Wildcard ( Java ), a special actual type parameter for generic instantiations in Java

# Wildcard filter-reserves resources for a general type of flow without specifying the flow ; all flows share the resources

In the 2010 Wildcard Playoff Game against the Kansas City Chiefs, McGahee scored a 25-yard touchdown run late in the 4th quarter that sealed the win for Baltimore.

The Steelers have swept all divisional opponents twice, in 2002 and 2008 ( going 7 for 7 both times, winning against the Browns in a 2003 AFC Wildcard game and the Ravens in the 2009 AFC Championship ), and the Ravens and Bengals have swept all three divisional opponents once each, the Bengals in 2009 and Ravens in 2011.

Another is called Wildcard which appears to cycle through all of the regular Snoods, and may be used in place of any of them.

* John Crenella ( Wildcard )-Power Mimicry ( limited to copying the super powers of other Morituri ); Died from the Morituri effect.

When specifying file names ( or paths ) in CP / M, DOS, Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems, the asterisk character ("*") substitutes for zero or more characters.

") substitutes for exactly one character, whereas in DOS, it substitutes for one character or less.

A vulgarism ( from Latin vulgus, the " mean folk "), also called scurrility, is a colloquialism of an unpleasant action or unrefined character, which substitutes a coarse, indecorous word where the context might lead the reader to expect a more refined expression.

Scholars are not entirely convinced that the later character of Gawain is derived from the Welsh Gwalchmei ap Gwyar, but later Welsh writers clearly thought this was the case ; the name " Gwalchmei " consistently substitutes for " Gawain " in Cymric translations and adaptations of foreign works, such as the Welsh Romances of the Mabinogion.

Piccolo later supplies him with a keikogi fashioned after Goku's, but substitutes it with the demon character "" as a sign of his admission into the Demon Tribe.

The term is used as a metaphor by the character Elaine Ross, describing Sydney as " the Emerald City of Oz ", where people go expecting their dreams to be fulfilled, only to end up with superficial substitutes and broken dreams.

* Body double, someone who substitutes for the credited actor of a character

Similarly, in the version shown in theaters, when Bo Derek's character puts on Ravel's Boléro, she says that it's the perfect music to " fuck " to, whereas the version shown on television substitutes " make love " for " fuck ", while retaining Moore's character's startled reaction to hearing his idealized woman casually swearing.

Some modern wood engravers use substitutes made of PVC or resin, mounted on MDF, which produce similarly detailed results of a slightly different character.

A search that substitutes one or more characters in a search query for a wildcard character such as an asterisk.

* In an installment of " Monsterpiece Theater " on the children's show Sesame Street, there is a character named " Cyranose ", who substitutes a sword with, appropriately, his exaggeratedly long nose.

He also was a guest star on Drake & Josh in an episode entitled " Guitar ," where he plays a rock guitarist for whom Drake substitutes in a concert after Josh accidentally breaks the hand of Mark Matkevich's character.

The anime adaptation of the yonkoma manga Lucky Star substitutes conventional ending theme-songs with parodies of famous anime songs, episode five of which was " Cha-La Head-Cha-La " sung by the lead character, Konata.

Because the Chinese character for " biáng " cannot be entered into computers ( the character has not been added to Unicode ), phonetic substitutes like ) or ) are often used.

`` We the people of the Confederate States, each state acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity -- invoking the favor and the guidance of Almighty God -- do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Confederate States of America ''.

When words can be used in a more fresh and primitive way so that they strike with the force of sights and sounds, when tones of sound and colors of paint and the carven shape all strike the sensibilities with an undeniable force of data in and of themselves, compelling the observer into an attitude of attention, all this imitates the way experience itself in its deepest character strikes upon the door of consciousness and clamors for entrance.

After the collapse of that desperate and ill-fated campaign the character of the king degenerated for a time into a futility that was not merely pitiable but often ridiculous.

`` the matters to be considered are obviously of a grave character, and I therefore respectfully request that the hearing be postponed for two weeks in order that I might make adequate preparation ''.

Some people thought he lacked both ability and character, but most agreed that he was noble in appearance and, for a Russian, humane.

Pomham and Soconoco, a couple of minor sachems ( of something less than exalted character ) under Miantonomi, declared that they had never assented to the sale of land to Gorton and had never received anything for it.

For what Sam Rayburn's life in this House teaches us is that loyalty and character are not divisive and there is no such thing as being for your country and neglecting your district.

Replies to requests for character reference are notorious for their evasive double-entendre.

The norms, as elements, refer to `` all criteria for judging the character or conduct of both individual and group actions in any social system ''.

In many passages -- for example, the council of boyars -- each section of the chorus becomes a character group with a particular opinion.

He knew instinctively that next to voice and face an actor's hands are his most useful possession -- that in fiction as in the theatre, gesture is an indispensable shorthand for individualizing character and dramatizing action and response.

Dickens not only reveals character through gesture, he makes hands a crucial element of the plot, a means of clarifying the structure of the novel by helping to define the hero's relations with all the major characters, and a device for ordering such diverse themes as guilt, pursuit, crime, greed, education, materialism, enslavement ( by both people and institutions ), friendship, romantic love, forgiveness, and redemption.

Her services to the School for many years were of a very high character, and I have often thought that one of the buildings should be named for her ''.

The vast industrial interests caught up in the Selden suit, as well as the complex character of the automotive art, encouraged both sides to exploit `` every possible chance '' for or against the patent, said Parker.

He has the temperament and the stage presence for a rousing villain and he sang with character and strong tone.

His own children had suffered from the weakening of those values which he and Theresa had always taken for granted, and as for his grandchildren ( he had one so far, still in diapers ), he shuddered to think that the true meaning of character might never dawn on them at all.

In a shifted code, some character codes determine choices between options for the following character codes.

The " space " character had to come before graphics to make sorting easier, so it became position 20 < sub > hex </ sub >; for the same reason, many special signs commonly used as separators were placed before digits.

The main character of Arthur, an animated television series for children produced by WGBH, shown in more than 180 countries, is an aardvark.

( See, for example, the character of Oliver Manders in Three Act Tragedy.

A 1945 radio series of at least 13 original half-hour episodes ( none of which apparently adapt any Christie stories ) transferred Poirot from London to New York and starred character actor Harold Huber, perhaps better known for his appearances as a police officer in various Charlie Chan films.