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Terminology. Common collective and individual terms for playing cards that are relevant, but not exclusive to, the 52-card pack are: Face card or court card – a jack, queen or king. Honour card – a card that attracts a special bonus or payment for being held or captured in play. [13]
A set of cards that has been reduced in size from a full pack (normally of 52 cards) by the removal of a certain card or cards. shuffle Rearrange (a deck of cards) by sliding the cards over each other quickly.(verb) An act of shuffling a deck of cards. (noun) shut out Defeated without a single point. side See partnership. side card
The 52-card deck is the most popular deck and includes 13 ranks of each suit with reversible "court" or face cards. Each suit includes an ace , depicting a single symbol of its suit, a king, queen, and jack, each depicted with a symbol of their suit; and ranks two through ten, with each card depicting that number of pips of its suit.
This list of playing card nicknames shows the nicknames of playing cards in a standard 52-card pack. Some are generic while some are specific to certain card games; others are specific to patterns, such as the courts of French playing cards for example, which often bear traditional names.
Whereas cards in a traditional deck have two classifications—suit and rank—and each combination is represented by one card, giving for example 4 suits × 13 ranks = 52 cards, each card in a Set deck has four classifications each into one of three categories, giving a total of 3 × 3 × 3 × 3 = 81 cards.
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