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 be thought of as a preface.

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 ").

“ 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.

When Zhuge Liang heard of Zhang Bao's death, he was greatly upset, fainting and spewing blood, serving as a prelude to his own eventual death caused by overwork and poor health.

The disclosure by Charles Bellows, chief defense counsel, startled observers and was viewed as the prelude to a quarrel between the six attorneys representing the eight former policemen now on trial.

Uribe's supporters in turn believe that increased military action is a necessary prelude to any serious negotiation attempt with the guerrillas and that the increased security situation will help to, in the long term, focus more actively on reducing most wide-scale abuses and human rights violations on the part of both the armed groups and any rogue security forces that might have links to the paramilitaries.

US minimalist composer Philip Glass wrote a prelude focused on the lower register that he scored for timpani and double bass.

The presence of the two opposing armed forces in Finland, the Red and the White Guards, imposed a state of " dual power " and " multiple sovereignty " on Finnish society, typically the prelude to civil war.

The prelude to the Summer of Love was the Human Be-In at Golden Gate Park on January 14, 1967, which was produced and organized by artist Michael Bowen as a " gathering of tribes ".

Instead of approaching The Hobbit as a children's book in its own right, critics such as Randell Helms picked up on the idea of The Hobbit as being a " prelude ", relegating the story to a dry-run for the later work.

On 17 March 2009 they showcased ten pages of art from the prelude to the series " The Wheel of Time: Eye of the World # 0-Dragonmount " on their website.

He started work on the prelude producing a three paragraph prose sketch that month, although he remained uncertain of the name, considering in turn Der Raub: Vorspiel ( The Theft: Prelude ), Der Raub des Rheingoldes ( The Theft of the Rhinegold ) and Das Rheingold ( Vorspiel ) ( The Rhinegold ( Prelude )).

The strongest attacks were that it was the prelude for a national political machine on behalf of Roosevelt.

Says David Broza: " The group of people that my grandfather joined saw the place as an opportunity to expand on the idea of finding peace within yourself as a prelude to bringing peace to the community and the region ".

Ma has appeared in an episode of the animated children's television series, Arthur, as well as on The West Wing ( episode " Noël ", in which he performed the prelude to the Bach Cello Suite No. 1 at a Christmas dinner at the White House ), Sesame Street and Mister Rogers ' Neighborhood.

Marcos claimed that martial law was the prelude to creating his Bagong Lipunan, a " New Society " based on new social and political values.

He was also seen playing a portion of Rachmaninoff's " Prelude in C # minor " in A Day at the Races and chords on the piano in A Night at the Opera, in such a way that the piano sounded much like a harp, as a prelude to actually playing the harp in that scene.

Napoleon interpreted the Russian efforts on his left as a prelude to an attack on Eylau from that quarter.

A prelude ( Vorgespiel ), on the Good Shepherd, precedes the play.

In 2013, Cilla Black will celebrate 50 years in show business ; as a prelude to this landmark anniversary, EMI ( the record label which launched her career in 1963 ) release on 23 April 2012 Completely Cilla: 1963-1973-a 5CD set containing 139 recordings ( all produced by George Martin ) and a bonus DVD of rare BBC TV music performances.

The only two points on which he departed from the orthodox Lutheran faith of his day were the requirement of regeneration as the sine qua non of the true theologian, and the expectation of the conversion of the Jews and the fall of Papacy as the prelude of the triumph of the church.

A long musical prelude as well as an overture preceded the film with Tiomkin conducting the studio orchestra ; this recording was later issued on LP and CD.

In January 2005, Jerry Springer-The Opera, a satirical musical / opera based upon The Jerry Springer Show, was broadcast on BBC Two, following a highly successful West End run for several years, and as a prelude to the show's UK Tour.