noun
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A price or cost, as in up the ante.
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In poker and other games, the contribution made by all players to the pot before dealing the cards.
verb
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To pay the ante in poker. Often used as ante up.
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To make an investment in money, effort, or time before knowing one's chances.
Examples of ante in a Sentence
The portal led to an ante room between the attached garage and main house.
He upped the ante in the climbing world at the time.
Most hold 'em games do not have an ante; they use " blinds " to get initial money into the pot.
M (Charter) Thurs; gr ante 10 Feb 1281, by Reginald son of Peter to Hugh de Turberville.
This illustrates the first stage in the process of magnetization, when the moment is proportional to the field and there is no hysteresis or residual magnetism (see ante).
At the same time he has nothing to say against the Platonic theory of universalia ante rem (see Idealism).
In the following year a general church assembly endeavoured to unite all the congregations in a common government, but Postma's consistory rejected these overtures, and from that date the Separatist (or Dopper) Church has had an independent existence (see ante, § Religion).
This particular instrument has historical interest, having led Struve to some of those criticisms of the Pulkowa heliometer which ultimately bore such valuable fruit (see ante).
The capitulation of Vilagos, which ended the Hungarian insurrection, gave Schwarzenberg a free hand for completing the work of restoring the status quo ante and the influence of Austria in Germany.
Archbishop Trench (Study of Words) supposed that when " religion " became equivalent to the monastic life, and " religious " to a monk, the words lost their original meaning, but the Ancren Riwle, ante 1225, and the Cursor Mundi use the words both in the general and the more particular sense (see quotations in the New English Dictionary), and both meanings can be found in the Imitatio Christi and in Erasmus's Colloquia.
In process of time powerful states grew up with capitals at Napata and Meroe (see ante § Archaeology and Ethiopia and Egypt).
He did n't stray from the path or ever ante up the action or tension in any of the scenes.
Up the ante of glamor on that wedding day by wearing false lashes.
If you don't mind spending a bit more, several digital cameras up the ante on point and shoot imaging by offering consumers professional quality features that yield pro results.
Up the ante on complex carbohydrates by eating more beans and whole grains.
The acceptance of nudity necessitated bawdy entertainment to up the ante further in order to secure their lucratively raunchy reputations.
Where others have failed to up the ante on the original Tetris, Ubisoft and QEntertainment have just shoved all of their chips onto the table.
The Spaniards invaded the duchy from Lombardy, and although the duke was defeated several times he fought bravely, gained some successes, and the terms of the peace of 1618 left him more or less in the status quo ante.
But, in the Augustinian sense of ideas immanent in the divine mind, the universal ante rem may well be admitted as possessing real existence.
Down till 1890 manhood suffrage had prevailed in all the Southern states also (as to some Southern states now see ante, 5).
The form ceorl soon became cherl, as in Havelok the Dane (ante 1300) and several times in Chaucer, and subsequently churl.
Aquinas thought that before the creation the one eternal essence of any kind was an abstract form, an idea in the intellect of God, like the form of a house in the mind of a builder, ante rem; that after the creation of any kind it is in re, as Aristotle supposed; and that, as we men think of it, it is post rem, as Aristotle also supposed.
Of this view the part which was not Aristotle's, the state of " universalia ante rem," was due to the Neoplatonists, who interpreted the " separate forms " of Plato to be ideas in intellect, and handed down their interpretation through St Augustine to the medieval Realists like Aquinas, who thus combined Neoplatonism with Aristotelianism.
After the suppression of a military revolt the war with Persia was continued with varying success, and terminated in 1736 by a treaty of peace restoring the status quo ante bellum.
For Wycliffe and his adherent John Purvey (probably the author of the Commentarius in Apocalypsin ante centum annos editus, edited in 1528 by Luther), as on the other hand for Hus, the conviction that the papacy is essentially Antichrist is absolute.
Andernach (Antunnacum) is the old Roman Castellum ante Nacum, founded by Drusus and fortified in the 3rd century A.D.
The status quo ante was restored, the diet met in extraordinary session, and proceeded to the entire recasting of the Finnish government.
In an imperial manifesto dated the 7th of November 1905 the demands of Finland were granted, and the status quo ante 1899 was restored.
But the Venetians were victorious, and by the peace of Turin Carrara found himself in the status quo ante, but he bought Treviso from Austria, to whom Venice had given it in the day of her trouble.
Besides these there are several valuable papers by Dahle in the yearly numbers of The Antananarivo Annual (ante) (1876-1877); Richardson, A New Malagasy-English Dictionary (Antananarivo, 1885); Cousins and Parrett, Malagasy Proverbs (Antananarivo, 1885); Causseque, Grammaire malgache (Antananarivo, 1886); Abinal et 1Vlalzac, Dictionnaire malgache frangais (Antananarivo, 1889); Brandstetter, " Die Beziehungen des Malagasy zum Malaiischen," Malaio-polynesische Forschungen, pt.
It does not consider the forms ante multiplicitatem, i.e.
For that reason, the need to raise the information ante has become a matter of urgency.
Producers with decision rules defined ex ante can move over this grid in order to find the best production site for themselves.
We also only possess a terminus ante quem for the associated watchtower on Holyhead Mountain.
We do not see any prospect of a return to the status quo ante.
Issue of gender to quot ante quot we designed.
With Volvo upping the style ante and launching a desirable soft top and small coupe soon, it might just happen.
He believed that the cast displayed ante mortem loss of the central and right lateral incisors, and possibly the left lateral incisor.
The formal unity, however, is not an arbitrary creation of the mind, but exists "in natura rei ante omnem operationem intellectus."
The work of these missions is to extend and consolidate that Catholicized and partly Latinized offshoot of the Nestorians known as the Uniat-Chaldean Church (see ante).
The final fall of Napoleon in 1815 gave the people of the United Kingdom leisure to think about their possessions at the Ante podes; and in 1817 free settlers commenced to arrive in coy siderable numbers, attracted by the success of Captain Joh i M'Arthur, an officer in the New South Wales Regiment, who had demonstrated that the soil, grass and climate were well adapted for the growth.
This 2003 Shiraz represents a good value and a delicious one to up the ante.
Available in black or brown, you can also buy a belt separately to up the fashion ante on this hot style.
Additionally, you can up the ante by purchasing an unlined suit in one of these shades, and because these suits are unlined, once wet, they will quickly yield what's hidden beneath.
While you'll find simple one-piece styles out there, you'll also find other designs that really up the ante on a simple maillot.
You can also organize mini competitions between the boys to up the ante on their enthusiasm.
As their stars continue to rise, these men are guaranteed to steal even more hearts of female viewers, upping the ante for aspiring actors waiting for their turn in the daytime TV spotlight.
To up the ante, Invicta also gave the watch a stainless steel bezel, a screw-down case back and 200 meters of water resistance.
To up the ante just a tad, throw candy at the section that is the loudest during the game.
Don't go so far as to alienate a good friend, but just enough to up the ante and keep boredom at bay.