ante Definition
☆ ante (an′tē)
noun
- Poker the stake that each player must put into the pot before receiving cards
- Informal the amount one must pay as one's share
Etymology: L, before
transitive verb, intransitive verb -·ted or -·teed, -·te·ing
- Poker to put in (one's ante)
- Informal to pay (one's share)
ante Idioms
ante up
to ante; pay
ante Law Definition
ante Usage Examples
Converse of object
- raise: For that reason, the need to raise the information ante has become a matter of urgency.
- up: He upped the ante in the climbing world at the time.
- record: M ( Prescriptive: boro ) recorded ante 1314.
- see: See ante, vol. i, p. 347 ( above, in present volume ).
- have: Most hold 'em games do not have an ante; they use " blinds " to get initial money into the pot.
- define: Producers with decision rules defined ex ante can move over this grid in order to find the best production site for themselves.
Preposition: in
way: The game take son new levels of fear and tension with the Sauron player, and ups the ante in many ways.
Adjective modifier
ex: Ex ante, policy makers can undertake politically costly economic reform.
Modifies a noun
- quem: We also only possess a terminus ante quem for the associated watchtower on Holyhead Mountain.
- terminum: Balfour Gardiner's Evening Hymn uses the text of the Compline hymn Te lucis ante terminum ( 104 ).
- omnia: Et in unum Dominum Iesum Christum, Filium Dei unigenitum, et ex Patre natum ante omnia saecula.
- mortem: Ante mortem data Information obtained from family, friends, etc. about a person who is believed to be among the deceased.
- bet: Today's report: Apart from New Field most of our ante post bets seem to be going the right way.
- chamber: I was bundled into the ante chamber of the bank whereat a voice came at me in French that I couldn't fathom.
Noun used with modifier
- terminus: We also only possess a terminus ante quem for the associated watchtower on Holyhead Mountain.
- Gr: M ( Charter ) Thurs; gr ante 10 Feb 1281, by Reginald son of Peter to Hugh de Turberville.
- quo: We do not see any prospect of a return to the status quo ante.
- boro: Boro ante 12 Jun 1260 ( BF, p. 77 ).
- status: We do not see any prospect of a return to the status quo ante.
- quot: Issue of gender to quot ante quot we designed.
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