Word Finder - tableaux

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A striking and vivid representation; a picture.

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A vivid graphic scene of a group of people arranged as in a painting or bas relief sculpture.

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• tableau vivant

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Hence, an arrangement of actors in static positions on stage, having the effect of pointing up a particular moment in the drama, conventionally revealed by opening tableau curtains (known as "tabs").

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A table (two-dimensional presentation of data).

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Mostly in solitaire card games, but also in other card and board games, the main area, where random cards can be arranged.

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A semantic tableau.

If you play that third card on your tableaux, you can proceed to the second one.

Schmidt, Tableaux de la Revolution francaise, &c. (Leipzig, 1867-1870), a collection of reports of the secret police on which the above work is based.

Blocking and lighting design combined to create haunting tableaux that made a virtue of the Playroom's potentially awkward rhomboid space.

If not, try to build tableaux, which basically means moving the faceup cards in the lower piles around.

You can never have more than seven piles in the tableaux.

Once you've done as much as you can with the tableaux, turn over the top card from the stack in your hand.

See if you can play it on a finish pile or in the tableaux.

We develop a theory of semantic tableaux for BI, thereby providing an elegant basis for efficient theorem proving tools for BI.

Detailed Description A tableau which renders its child tableaux as a rectangular grid.

In 1806 Fischer de Waldheim, in his Tableaux syn- optiques de zoognosie (p. 181), quoting Nieremberg, extended his figure of speech, and, while justly deprecating the notion that the series of forms belonging to any particular group of creatures - the Mammalia was that whence he took his instance - could be placed in a straight line, imagined the various genera to be arrayed in a series of contiguous circles around Man as a centre.

Syntactic sequents are defined (in our case) in terms of tableaux.

The cooking at L'Atelier rolls past, a series of tableaux vivants each capturing a moment of glorious French cooking in its purest form.

The logical symbols and tableaux rules to be used are those found in Wifred Hodges, Logic (Penguin Books).

Some present 'all singing all dancing ' themes; others opt for elegant waxwork type tableaux where not a muscle moves throughout the procession.

The "Glorified Girls" featured in the mainstream Broadway revue of Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. also made nudity more and more acceptable on the stage with opulent tableaux such as "Lady Godiva's Ride" in the Follies of 1919.

He caused engravings to be made, at his own expense, of Bartoli's copies from ancient pictures and published Nouveaux sujets de peinture et de sculpture (1755) and Tableaux tires de l'Iliade, de l'Odysse, et de l'Eneide (1757).