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ante Definition

☆ ante (an′tē)

noun

  1. Poker the stake that each player must put into the pot before receiving cards
  2. Informal the amount one must pay as one's share

Etymology: L, before

transitive verb, intransitive verb -·ted or -·teed, -·te·ing

  1. Poker to put in (one's ante)
  2. Informal to pay (one's share)

ante Idioms

ante up

to ante; pay

ante Law Definition

adv

Latin

Before. Before in time, order, or position; in front of. See also post.

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.