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The most common game variants of contract bridge are rubber bridge and duplicate bridge ; each has many further variants.
In rubber bridge, two partnerships participate in the game at one table and the objective is to score the most points in the play of several hands.
While rubber bridge is played competitively and for stakes, it is most often played socially and with less formality than duplicate bridge.
If all four players pass in the first round, the deal is not played ; in rubber bridge the deal is not scored and the hand is redealt by the original dealer, while in duplicate the score is recorded as zero for each pair and returned to the board.
There is no longer a universally recognized standard for social / rubber bridge players.
In IMP-scoring tournaments and rubber bridge, the primary concern is to fulfill the contract, because overtricks are of secondary interest.
Poirot points out that in the third rubber of bridge on the night of Shaitana's murder, a grand slam occurred.
Guitarist Zanzibar added foam rubber to the bridge of his guitar, which made the instrument sound more like a balafon than before, and was more aggressive and innovative than previous musicians.
* con sordina, or con sordine ( plural ): with a mute, or with mutes ; several orchestral instruments can have their tone muted with wood, rubber, metal, or plastic devices ( for string instruments, mutes are clipped to the bridge, and for brass instruments, mutes are inserted in the bell ); compare senza sordina in this list ( which instructs the musicians to remove their mutes ); see also Sordino.
A rubber coated fabric bridge pontoon
In 1848 General George Cullum, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, introduced a rubber coated fabric inflatable bridge pontoon which was used in the Mexican-American War and later on to a limited extent during the American Civil War.
This is a metal tube and mounting screw with an interior rubber sleeve, that fits around the offending string below the bridge.
Duplicate bridge stands in contrast to rubber bridge where each hand is freshly dealt and where scores may be more affected by chance in the short run.
Duplicate bridge, especially matchpoint games, differs significantly from rubber bridge: whereas the goal in rubber bridge is to win more points than the pair of people you are playing against, in duplicate bridge the goal is to do better than other pairs playing exactly the same cards.

rubber and partnerships
At the beginning of a rubber the players cut to decide partnerships and who deals the first hand.

rubber and may
The side which has accumulated the most points and wins the rubber may or may not be the side to have won two games.
" many BDSM communities welcome anyone with a non-normative streak who identifies with the community ; this may include cross-dressers, extreme body mod enthusiasts, animal players, latex or rubber aficionados, and others.
It may be simply covered by a rubber flap or it may be an actual door hinged on the top that the pet can push through.
The most common materials are steel and aluminum, but specialized shoes may include use of rubber, plastic, magnesium, titanium, or copper.
Scratch builders may also make silicone rubber molds of the parts they create, and cast them in various plastic resins ( see Resin_casting ), or plasters.
For example, two samples of natural rubber may exhibit different durability, even though their molecules comprise the same monomers.
They are typically made of leather or rubber, although they may be made from a variety of different materials.
The most common materials are steel and aluminum, but specialized shoes may include use of rubber, plastic, magnesium, titanium, or copper.
Stethoscope components are commonly made of plastic or rubber and may be damaged by solvents and other compounds used for cleaning, including alcohol and soap.
Such additives may include rubber, as in Loctite's Ultra Gel, and / or unspecified additives, as in Instant Krazy Glue's ADVANCED Formula.
For example, a player may have a rubber that provides much spin on one side of his racket, and one that provides no spin on the other.
For legal purposes, the definition of a seal may be extended to include rubber stamps, or writing specified words (" seal " or " L. S.
The fact that stretching is equivalent to compression may seem somewhat counterintuitive, but it makes sense if rubber is viewed as a one-dimensional gas.
For instance, when X is a bounded subset of the plane, the convex hull may be visualized as the shape formed by a rubber band stretched around X.
When the set is a nonempty finite subset of the plane ( that is, two-dimensional ), we may imagine stretching a rubber band so that it surrounds the entire set and then releasing it, allowing it to contract ; when it becomes taut, it encloses the convex hull of.
For this reason horse fences may have rubber bands nailed parallel to the wires.
Screenprinting may be adapted to printing on a variety of materials, from paper, cloth, and canvas to rubber, glass, and metal.
Commercial chemical solutions are also available which may help temporarily restore the traction of the rubber.
A full orchestra would have two bass instruments called gulu with three or four wooden keys played standing up using heavy mallets with solid rubber heads, three tenor dibinda, with ten keys and played seated, and the mbila itself, which has up to nineteen keys of which up to eight may be played simultaneously.
A single item, for example boots, may provide multiple forms of protection: a steel toe cap and steel insoles for protection of the feet from crushing or puncture injuires, impervious rubber and lining for protection from water and chemicals, high reflectivity and heat resistance for protection from radiant heat, and high electrical resistivity for protection from electric shock.
These range from oval shaped models to lower internal volume masks and may be made from different materials ; common choices are silicone and rubber.
However, old rubber tires may be collected and recycled by independent tire dealers for a profit.

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The design of the analog joystick, which used a weak rubber boot rather than springs to provide centering, proved to be ungainly and unreliable.
In order to count as an intentional ball, the ball must be legally pitched, i. e., the pitcher's foot must be on the pitcher's rubber, the catcher must be in the catcher's box, and the batter must be in the batter's box appearing ready to take a pitch at the time the ball is thrown.
They are most commonly made of rubber but have been known to be made of asbestos.
After these recitations, he would most often be hit over the head with a rubber chicken, or in later years be given a bomb or something that would eventually explode.
The image can be printed directly from the stone plate ( the orientation of the image is reversed ), or it can be offset, by transferring the image onto a flexible sheet ( rubber ) for printing and publication.
Pads that can trigger a MIDI device can be homemade from a piezoelectric sensor and a practice pad or other piece of foam rubber.
Over time, the rubber would slowly dissolve, making the contents slightly sticky, and the mixture would separate into two layers – this was intentional, and the grenade should not be shaken to mix the layers, as this would only delay ignition.
* Four pipe fitters had liquid tabun drain onto them and died before their rubber suits could be removed.
A rubber disc would be secured to the top of the stamping to provide traction for the record, as well as a small amount of vibration isolation.
Not only were there rival machines with " down-stroke " and " frontstroke " positions that gave a visible printing point, the problem of typebar clashes could be circumvented completely: examples include Thomas Edison's 1872 electric print-wheel device which later became the basis for Teletype machines ; Lucien Stephen Crandall's typewriter ( the second to come onto the American market ) whose type was arranged on a cylindrical sleeve ; the Hammond typewriter of 1887 which used a semi-circular " type-shuttle " of hardened rubber ( later light metal ); and the Blickensderfer typewriter of 1893 which used a type wheel.
Most lubricants must be kept away from rubber, vinyl, and plastic parts.
To help a player distinguish between the rubber used by his opposing player, international rules specify that one side must be red while the other side must be black.
Open, low-speed segmented vehicles on rubber tires, generally used to ferry tourists short distances, can be called trams, for example on the Universal Studios backlot tour.

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