Domino
noun
A small rectangular piece used in a game, which is divided into two squares each having from none to six dots.
We spent the evening playing dominoes.
Often appears as...
- play dominoes
- set of dominoes
noun
A loose hooded cloak worn with a half-mask as a disguise. The mask has eyeholes and is commonly worn at masquerades.
The lady arrived at the masquerade dressed in a domino and mask.
Often appears as...
- wear a domino
- cloak and domino
noun
In computing, Domino is a server application developed by IBM, used for email, calendaring, and collaboration tasks.
The company's intranet is hosted on a Domino server.
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Technical
noun
An effect that occurs when an event causes similar events to happen one after another.
His resignation had a domino effect within the company.
Often appears as...
- domino effect
- create a domino effect
noun
A small rectangular piece used in a game, which is divided into two squares each having from none to six dots.
We spent the evening playing dominoes.
Often appears as...
- play dominoes
- set of dominoes
noun
A loose hooded cloak worn with a half-mask as a disguise. The mask has eyeholes and is commonly worn at masquerades.
The lady arrived at the masquerade dressed in a domino and mask.
Often appears as...
- wear a domino
- cloak and domino
noun
In computing, Domino is a server application developed by IBM, used for email, calendaring, and collaboration tasks.
The company's intranet is hosted on a Domino server.
Usage tips
Technical
noun
An effect that occurs when an event causes similar events to happen one after another.
His resignation had a domino effect within the company.
Often appears as...
- domino effect
- create a domino effect
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Pro Tip 1/2Game Piece
Used mostly in the game context; avoid using it to refer to pieces in other contexts like puzzles.
Who knocked over the dominoes?
Pro Tip 2/2Counting Dots
Each half's dots range from none (blank) to six, important for game rules.
This domino has five dots on one end and three on the other.
Pro Tip 1/2Game Piece
Used mostly in the game context; avoid using it to refer to pieces in other contexts like puzzles.
Who knocked over the dominoes?
Pro Tip 2/2Counting Dots
Each half's dots range from none (blank) to six, important for game rules.
This domino has five dots on one end and three on the other.
Pro Tip 1/2Game Piece
Used mostly in the game context; avoid using it to refer to pieces in other contexts like puzzles.
Who knocked over the dominoes?
Pro Tip 2/2Counting Dots
Each half's dots range from none (blank) to six, important for game rules.
This domino has five dots on one end and three on the other.
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Why does cool stuff come...
now fermenting political change actually because the ports are getting overloaded and the government is being forced to think of adopting more technology to do this and there's a domino effect that's just marvelous to watch as technology is liberating those of us who for a long time thought we'd have to wait for the
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Two Champions, One...
games in the analytical side of games and trying to play well and not just horsing around and putting putting pieces down or putting dominoes down if you made a mistake we'd all call you on it and we're really thinking about exactly what we should be doing so that was important to us and I think that was
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The case for having kids...
yeah, it might be underpopulation. So a what happens if that number dips below 2.1? There's going to be a domino effect. As all of us get older, and live longer, there's going to be a shrinking younger population, which is going to lead to rising labor shortages in the world's biggest economies.
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Why is yawning...
Think of fixed action pattern like a reflex. Your yawn makes me yawn. Similar to a domino effect, one person's yawn triggers a yawn in a person nearby that has observed the act. Once this reflex is triggered, it must run its course. Have you ever tried to stop a yawn once it has begun?
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Erika Cheung: Theranos,...
illustrating all the deficiencies and the problems that I had seen in the laboratory. And as endearingly as my dad kind of notes this as being my, like, dragon-slayer moment, where I had risen up and fought this behemoth and it caused this domino effect, I can tell you right now,
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So Much Change, So...
We are just beginning to understand that loss of grouper and parrot fish has a domino effect, and kills the reef. It's happening so fast, it doesn't take an old-timer to remember the good old days. In just my short lifetime of 19 years,
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A climate solution where...
Doesn't that sound like something we could all support? The fourth and final pillar of our program is a new climate domino effect, based on border carbon adjustments. Now that may sound complicated, but it, too, is revolutionary,
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Can you outsmart the...
These complex real-world events are not, in fact, like dominoes, where when the first one falls, it becomes a certainty that the last will fall. For any one of these events, a number of possible outcomes could result,
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How we can build AI to...
We set into motion that domino effect that carves out AI's evolutionary path. In our time right now, we shape the AI of tomorrow. Technology that immerses us in augmented realities bringing to life past worlds.
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Get comfortable with...
That is me. I want us to leave this world better than we found it. And how I choose to effect change is by speaking up, by being the first and by being the domino. For a line of dominoes to fall,
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Why does cool stuff come...
now fermenting political change actually because the ports are getting overloaded and the government is being forced to think of adopting more technology to do this and there's a domino effect that's just marvelous to watch as technology is liberating those of us who for a long time thought we'd have to wait for the
Video examples
Two Champions, One...
games in the analytical side of games and trying to play well and not just horsing around and putting putting pieces down or putting dominoes down if you made a mistake we'd all call you on it and we're really thinking about exactly what we should be doing so that was important to us and I think that was
Video examples
The case for having kids...
yeah, it might be underpopulation. So a what happens if that number dips below 2.1? There's going to be a domino effect. As all of us get older, and live longer, there's going to be a shrinking younger population, which is going to lead to rising labor shortages in the world's biggest economies.
Video examples
Why is yawning...
Think of fixed action pattern like a reflex. Your yawn makes me yawn. Similar to a domino effect, one person's yawn triggers a yawn in a person nearby that has observed the act. Once this reflex is triggered, it must run its course. Have you ever tried to stop a yawn once it has begun?
Video examples
Erika Cheung: Theranos,...
illustrating all the deficiencies and the problems that I had seen in the laboratory. And as endearingly as my dad kind of notes this as being my, like, dragon-slayer moment, where I had risen up and fought this behemoth and it caused this domino effect, I can tell you right now,
Video examples
So Much Change, So...
We are just beginning to understand that loss of grouper and parrot fish has a domino effect, and kills the reef. It's happening so fast, it doesn't take an old-timer to remember the good old days. In just my short lifetime of 19 years,
Video examples
A climate solution where...
Doesn't that sound like something we could all support? The fourth and final pillar of our program is a new climate domino effect, based on border carbon adjustments. Now that may sound complicated, but it, too, is revolutionary,
Video examples
Can you outsmart the...
These complex real-world events are not, in fact, like dominoes, where when the first one falls, it becomes a certainty that the last will fall. For any one of these events, a number of possible outcomes could result,
Video examples
How we can build AI to...
We set into motion that domino effect that carves out AI's evolutionary path. In our time right now, we shape the AI of tomorrow. Technology that immerses us in augmented realities bringing to life past worlds.
Video examples
Get comfortable with...
That is me. I want us to leave this world better than we found it. And how I choose to effect change is by speaking up, by being the first and by being the domino. For a line of dominoes to fall,
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Timothy D. Snyder
American Author
Defend an institution. Follow the courts or the media, or a court or a newspaper. Do not speak of 'our institutions' unless you are making them yours by acting on their behalf. Institutions don't protect themselves. They go down like dominoes unless each is defended from the beginning.
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Gary Numan
British Musician
I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I'm a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years.
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Gerry Harvey
Australian Businessman
I'm hoping there'll be, if not a boom, then a big pick-up in housing because if that happens, then it will employ a lot of people, and the domino effect will go through the community, and it will help everyone.
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Dan Hawkins
English Musician
We've had a number 1 album in the UK and that was a really big thing for me. So now all we've got to do is do it in America and that will have the domino effect of doing it across the rest of the world.
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Elizabeth Pena
American Actress
I believe the director is the one that sets the mood and if you have this hysterical director it's a domino effect. I would work for him forever, for nothing. Don't tell my agent that.
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Bad Bunny
Puerto Rican Singer
I don't travel with them, but they can't be missing in my home. There have to always be dominoes... I used to play with my family - dad, my grandpa, my uncles.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
American President
You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.
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Wendy Williams
American Entertainer
I wouldn't have changed a thing in my past. Life is like dominoes: if you move one, it wouldn't fall the right way.
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Wanda Sykes
American Comedian
My worlds collide. When one things happens, it just starts a domino effect - everything else goes on.
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Johnny Vegas
British Comedian
There's a domino effect with certain things you say.
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Timothy D. Snyder
American Author
Defend an institution. Follow the courts or the media, or a court or a newspaper. Do not speak of 'our institutions' unless you are making them yours by acting on their behalf. Institutions don't protect themselves. They go down like dominoes unless each is defended from the beginning.
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Gary Numan
British Musician
I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I'm a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years.
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Gerry Harvey
Australian Businessman
I'm hoping there'll be, if not a boom, then a big pick-up in housing because if that happens, then it will employ a lot of people, and the domino effect will go through the community, and it will help everyone.
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Dan Hawkins
English Musician
We've had a number 1 album in the UK and that was a really big thing for me. So now all we've got to do is do it in America and that will have the domino effect of doing it across the rest of the world.
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Elizabeth Pena
American Actress
I believe the director is the one that sets the mood and if you have this hysterical director it's a domino effect. I would work for him forever, for nothing. Don't tell my agent that.
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Bad Bunny
Puerto Rican Singer
I don't travel with them, but they can't be missing in my home. There have to always be dominoes... I used to play with my family - dad, my grandpa, my uncles.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
American President
You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.
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Wendy Williams
American Entertainer
I wouldn't have changed a thing in my past. Life is like dominoes: if you move one, it wouldn't fall the right way.
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Wanda Sykes
American Comedian
My worlds collide. When one things happens, it just starts a domino effect - everything else goes on.
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Johnny Vegas
British Comedian
There's a domino effect with certain things you say.
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