Cutting cards is usually a prelude to a game, but it can be a game unto itself.

Sometimes, as in the case of the Israeli radio-alphabet stations, the prelude can also signify the nature or priority of the message to follow ( e. g. ( hypothetically ) " Charlie India Oscar-2 ", indicating that no message follows ).

The prelude can also refer to an overture, particularly to those seen in an opera or an oratorio.

Such teasing may or may not be a prelude to intercourse, an ambiguity which can lead to uncomfortable situations.

Though apparently scandalous at the time, such liaisons seemed the actions of admired artists who were following the dictates of their own wills, rather than those of social convention, and in this way they were in step with their era's liberal philosophers of the cult of passion, such as Fourier, and their actual or eventual openness can be understood to be a prelude to the freer ways of the 20th century.

A report in 2008 suggested that teledildonics, along with text and email and webcams, can be used to " wind each other up to fever pitch during the working day " as a prelude to sex with a human during the evening hours.

A monument to this can now be found in the center of the square, consisting of a glass panel opening onto an underground white room with empty shelf space for 20, 000 volumes and a plaque, bearing an epigraph from an 1820 work by Heinrich Heine: " Das war ein Vorspiel nur, dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen " (" That was only a prelude ; where they burn books, they ultimately burn people ").

The prelude to this moment can be heard on " The Good Old Days " from the Babyshambles Sessions, in which, after the lyric, " A list of things we said we'd do tomorrow ," Doherty yells ' Get a tattoo!

“ Under some circumstances attempts at deterrence can “ backfire ” when a potential attacker misinterprets the state ’ s deterrence measures as a “ prelude to offensive measures ”.

This jan-ken-po prelude can also differ depending on the island.

Sometimes, the ground-based research performed with a drop tower serves as a prelude to more ambitious, in-flight investigation ; much longer periods of weightlessness can be achieved with parabolic-flight-path aircraft or with space-based laboratories aboard the Space Shuttle or the International Space Station.

This is the freely improvised unmeasured prelude, within a given dromos / makam, which can occur at the beginning or in the middle of a song.

The De la Gardie Campaign can be considered a prelude to the Ingrian War.

It can almost certainly be said that this trophy was a prelude to the World Series trophy awarded to the Major League Baseball World Series winner since 1903.

It is one of the first two Vicariates and the second Metropolitan Archdiocese of the Syro-Malabar Hierarchy which can be considered as a prelude to the restoration of the identity of the Church in 1992 as a Sui Juris Church.

The event is a prelude to a much larger event help a few months later where students can practice what they learned by leading others to Christ after a message from Franklin Graham.

This would only be a prelude to 1969, when the Orioles won 109 games and easily won the newly-created American League East division title.

From its inception in 1930, the reform movement inherited Adventism's apocalypticism, in that they believed themselves to be living in a time when Bible prophecies of a final divine judgment were coming to pass as a prelude to Christ's second coming.

Dada is the groundwork to abstract art and sound poetry, a starting point for performance art, a prelude to postmodernism, an influence on pop art, a celebration of antiart to be later embraced for anarcho-political uses in the 1960s and the movement that lay the foundation for Surrealism.

In 1931, the Second Spanish Republic ( 1931 – 1939 ) turned into a civil war would be the prelude of World War II.

" However, the National Assembly has not officially changed the national borders, as doing so may be seen as a prelude to formal Taiwan independence ( the People's Republic of China has threatened to start a war if the government of Taiwan formalizes independence ).

Also, in a prelude to the Act of Settlement to come twelve years later, the Bill of Rights barred Roman Catholics from the throne of England as " it hath been found by experience that it is inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this Protestant kingdom to be governed by a papist prince "; thus William III and Mary II were named as the successors of James VII and II and that the throne would pass from them first to Mary's heirs, then to her sister, Princess Anne of Denmark and her heirs and, further, to any heirs of William by a later marriage.

Since it has been thought that Dál Riata swallowed Pictland to create the Kingdom of Alba, the later history of Dál Riata has tended to be seen as a prelude to future triumphs.

That would be a prelude to the religious recovery of England for Catholicism.

Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid dynasty, resolved to complete the conquest of Anatolia as a prelude to operations further west, to be carried out by his successors.

To the sentence quoted above he added the words, " which will be preceded by a great prelude ".

: Mr. Lindsay also published what may be called a prelude to the great work to which he has devoted his life-viz.

Dada is the groundwork to abstract art and sound poetry, a starting point for performance art, a prelude to postmodernism, an influence on pop art, a celebration of antiart to be later embraced for anarcho-political uses in the 1960s and the movement that lay the foundation for Surrealism.

Bathing was said to be a prelude to sin, and in the penitential of Burchard of Worms we find a full catalogue of the sins that ensued when men and women bathed together.

In fact the Sepoy Mutiny of 1806 that broke out inside the Velor fought against the British authority is considered to be a prelude to the Great Revolt of 1857, which is often described by some historians as the the First Indian War of Independence.

The persecution of the Roma by the Third Reich government began as early as 1936 when they began to be transferred to municipal internment camps on the outskirts of cities, a prelude to their deportation to extermination camps.

" We desired to make Ireland a nation ," Duffy wrote, " and the name would be a fitting prelude to the attempt .".

Many expected this to be a short-lived appointment, a prelude to Douglas-Home's retirement from politics.

Some at least of the shorter ones may be excerpts that have omitted the narrative central section, preserving only the useful invocation and introduction, which a rhapsode could employ in the manner of a prelude.

This could be a prelude to an eventual negotiated demarcation of the territory.

Catesby therefore planned to kill him by blowing up the House of Lords with gunpowder, the prelude to a popular revolt during which a Catholic monarch would be restored to the English throne.

This could be a prelude to artificial intelligence networks on the Internet eventually leading to a powerful superintelligence via a technological singularity.

European Americans were alarmed by the sight of the many Great Basin and Plains tribes performing the Ghost Dance, worried that it might be a prelude to armed attack.

Such ' renunciations of friendship ' on the part of the emperor were normally the prelude to the victim's death, but unexpectedly Nero seems to have changed his mind at this point, perhaps due to fluctuating power dynamics with Tigellinus, who as Capito's father-in-law might be presumed to have a strong motive to wish for Thrasea's elimination.

With Lily thought dead, Lady Claudia turns her attention inward, trying to seduce Lily's fiancee, Peter Gutenberg, and raping Fredric as a prelude to human sacrifice in an attempt to revive her dead baby.

At the same time, the Matoran are continuing their search, and they find records of Voya Nui's history-it was long thought that many were lost when some of the land sank underwater, but these records say that they may still be alive underwater as a prelude to the Mahri Nui story!

The island of Leyte was defended by about 20, 000 Japanese ; American General Douglas MacArthur thought that the occupation of Leyte would be only a prelude to the major engagement on Luzon.

1905 Revolution for Merezhkovsky was some kind of prelude for the religious revolution of which he thought himself to be a prophet.