The Russian abacus, the schoty ( счёты ), usually has a single slanted deck, with ten beads on each wire ( except one wire which has four beads, for quarter-ruble fractions.

It is the only observation tower which stands on insulators, and has a restaurant and an observation deck above ground, which is reachable by a windowed elevator.

Likewise, in Toronto, the Prince Edward Viaduct has five lanes of motor traffic, bicycle lanes, and sidewalks on its upper deck ; and a pair of tracks for the Bloor – Danforth subway line on its lower deck.

Sometimes a misdealt card ( such as one of the down cards in poker that has flashed during the deal ) will be used as the burn card — in those cases, the card should be immediately placed face up on the deck after the deal is complete.

After the play and scoring of the hand has concluded, the deal is rotated and the second deck is moved by the next dealer from his left to his right, cut by the previous dealer and dealt ; the partner of the new dealer shuffles the first deck continuing the process.

It has never been firmly established how the fire on Orient broke out, but one common account is that jars of oil and paint had been left on the poop deck, rather than properly stowed away after paintwork on the ship's hull had been completed shortly before the battle.

" As with the Tarot deck there is symbolic art and each card has two complementary meanings when upright or reversed ( while face up ).

The deck is retrieved, and each player is dealt in turn from the deck the same number of cards they discarded so that each player again has five cards.

She has a deck, 30 m in length and 10 m in width which is sufficient for 16 one-ten Land Rovers ( or equivalent ) and accommodation for 30 passengers.

The traditional kayak has a covered deck and one or more cockpits, each seating one paddler.

For example in draw poker, a hand with four diamonds has nine outs to make a flush: there are 13 diamonds in the deck, and four of them have been seen.

The command to " cut the cards ", following by someone literally chopping the deck in half with an axe, is a none-too-subtle gag that has been used many times in popular media, going back to at least the vaudeville days.

This " Visconti-Sforza " deck, which has been widely reproduced, reflects conventional iconography of the time to a significant degree.

Whereas the first book has the deck of cards as a theme, this book is based on a game of chess, played on a giant chessboard with fields for squares.

Right before boarders arrive, Tyler has Rabbit fire a shot from the deck gun right into the ship's radio tower, preventing the destroyer from reporting that the Enigma code has been compromised, and dives underneath her.

A continuous rocker is a smooth curve that does not change from tip to tail, while a three-stage rocker has two distinct bend points, almost like a skateboard deck but not nearly as drastic.

Vostrikov is informed that a helicopter is approaching ; he and some of the crew climb out onto the deck, thinking a Russian ship has come to save them, only to discover that it is a US Navy helicopter from a nearby US destroyer.

When a single player has all of the cards in the deck in his stack, he has won.

Froud has also dabbled in other media and created a deck of Oracle cards entitled " The Faerie's Oracle " with Jessica Macbeth, based on his artwork in Good Faeries / Bad Faeries.

Instead of cutting, one may also knock on the deck to indicate that one trusts the dealer to have shuffled fairly.

Stressed ribbon bridge s, like this one in Maldonado, Uruguay, also follow a catenary curve, with cables embedded in a rigid deck.

The center spans are twin steel trapezoidal girders which also support a lightweight concrete deck.

At this time a further design evolved, reintroducing oars to create the galley frigate such as the Charles Galley of 1676 which was rated as a 32-gun fifth rate but also had a bank of 40 oars set below the upper deck which could be used to propel the ship in the absence of a favourable wind.

Eiffel's proposal was for a bridge whose deck was supported by five iron piers, with the abutments of the pair on the river bank also bearing a central supporting arch.

Integrated, mini, or lifestyle systems, also known as music centres or minisystems, contain one or more sources such as a CD player, a tuner, or a cassette deck together with a preamplifier and a power amplifier in one box.

The kerling also had a companion: the " mast fish ," a wooden timber above the kerling just below deck height that provided extra help in keeping the mast erect.

The Mars Habitat Unit would also include a small pressurized rover that is stored in the lower deck area and assembled on the surface of Mars.

The Sergeant Matej Kocak Class, the second class of MPS ships chartered by MSC, also gained 157 feet ( 48 m ) amidships and a helicopter deck after conversion.

" It also featured a deck of cards ( called " Card cards ") with bizarre instructions, such as " If you can jump up and stay airborne for 37 seconds, you can lose $ 5, 000.

This also assumes using the entire 52-card deck, not an abbreviated game.

In the 15th century in Europe, the suits of playing cards varied: typically a deck had four suits, although five suits were common and other arrangements are also known.

Finally, the relative frequency of straights versus three of a kind is also sensitive to the deck composition ( and to the number of cards dealt ), so some places may consider three of a kind to be superior to a straight, but the difference is small enough that this complication is not necessary for most games.

Five-card stud is also often played with a piquet deck.

The game of euchre is also played with a 24-card stripped deck, consisting of only 9-10-J-Q-K-A of each suit, the 2-8 being stripped from the deck.

The contiguous section may also be taken from the middle of the deck.

For example, in a 10 card deck, if a 7 card cut and a 4 card cut are made, that is, 7 cards are moved from the top of the deck to the bottom and then the resulting top 4 cards are also moved to the bottom, then those two consecutive cuts are equivalent to a cut the size of ( 7 + 4

The double deck can also be used when playing with 4 players ; hand sizes, average scores and minimum bids are doubled.

This is also known as a Piquet deck, as opposed to the 52 or 54 present in a full French deck ( also known as a Poker deck, or a regular deck of playing cards ).

General Motors claims that the 1940 Cadillac Sixty Special introduced the " streamlined notchback " styling that influenced roof and rear deck styling of a broad range of vehicles until World War II The notchback design was common across U. S. automakers and automobile types starting in the early 1960s.

Today, the tank's naval lineage can be traced directly back to its naval designers by some of its past and present terminology: the hull, deck, sponsons, bow, turret, and hatches.

In the standard 52-card deck used in bridge, the ace is ranked highest followed by the king, queen, and jack and the spot-cards from ten down through to the two.

The original edition contained the " Fortune " deck of thirty-six cards, used for " divination " and action-resolution, as well as ninety " Vision " cards used as source material.

However, a rule used by many casinos is that a player is not allowed to draw five consecutive cards from the deck.

When four or fewer players play, a normal 32-card deck without jokers, with ranks ranging from ace to seven, is used.

The term " frigate " was used because such ships still mounted their principal armament on a single continuous upper deck.

The 264 strong fleet consists of 174 brand new single deck buses, sourced from King Long, along with 46 second hand Mercedes-Benz Citaro articulated buses previously used in London in the United Kingdom, 10 new Optare Solo hybrid electric buses, and a mixture of existing and new buses coming from elsewhere within the Arriva group and some modern buses acquired from the outgoing operation.

Small hand-held anti-personnel cannons were used, but large cannons mounted on deck further compromised the stability of warships, and cannons at that time had a slow rate of fire and were inaccurate.

With four players, a second deck may be used to specify the round to be played — the value of the upcard determines the number of cards dealt and the suit determines the trump suit for the round.

Soon after this spread, the full 52-card English deck was used and the flush was introduced.

A deck of cards may be used for playing a great variety of card games, with varying elements of skill and chance, some of which are played for money.

A French-suited deck of 32 cards, consisting of 7, 8, 9, 10, Jack, Queen, King and Ace in four suits each, is used in the two-player game Piquet, which dates back to the 16th century.

In lively home games it might work better to only strip three ranks ( 2s through 4s ) with seven or eight players ; with only two or three players 7s and 8s could be stripped as well, leaving the same 24-card deck used in euchre.

One's number of outs is often used to describe a drawing hand: " I had a two-outer " meaning you had a hand that only two cards in the deck could improve to a winner, for example.

Shuffling is a procedure used to randomize a deck of playing cards to provide an element of chance in card games.

It is conjectured that this kicking style was developed in this way to allow the fighter to use a hand to hold onto something for balance on a rocking ship's deck, and that the kicks and slaps were used on land to avoid the legal penalties for using a closed fist, which was considered a deadly weapon under the law.

Open-spandrel bridges later became fairly common, where thin ribs were used to connect the upper deck to the bridge arches, resulting in significant savings in material and weight, and therefore in cost.

Giacomo Casanova wrote in his diary that in 1765 his Russian mistress frequently used a deck of playing cards for divination.

In Florence an expanded deck called Minchiate was used.

French suited tarot cards are a modern deck used for the tarot / tarock card games commonly played in France and central Europe.

A four wheeled deck, similar to a mountain board or skateboard deck, is commonly used in conjunction with a mast and sail in order to project the board across land.