rubicon

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. özel isim A small river in northeastern Italy which flowed into the Adriatic Sea marking the boundary between the Roman province of Gaul and the Roman heartland. Its crossing by Julius Caesar in 49 B.C.E. began a civil war.
2. özel isim The same river in the present day, identified with a river previously named Fiumicino.
3. özel isim A locality in the Shire of Murrindindi, central eastern Victoria, Australia.
4. isim Alternative letter-case form of rubicon (“a limit that when exceeded, or an action that when taken, cannot be reversed; especially in bezique and piquet: a score which, if not achieved by a losing player, increases the player's penalty”).

   “Fortunately for England ſhe is yet on the peaceable ſide of the Rubicon; but as the flames once kindled are not alway eaſily extinguiſhed, the hopes of peace are not ſo clear as before the late myſterious diſpute began.”

5. isim A limit that when surpassed cannot be returned from, or an action that when taken cannot be reversed.

   “Fortunately for England ſhe is yet on the peaceable ſide of the Rubicon; but as the flames once kindled are not alway eaſily extinguiſhed, the hopes of peace are not ſo clear as before the late myſterious diſpute began.”

6. isim Especially in bezique and piquet: a score which, if not achieved by a losing player, increases the player's penalty.

   “The game is called a double, and you score 200 instead of 100 when your adversary does not get 100, which, in technical language, is called crossing the Rubicon.”

7. fiil Especially in bezique and piquet: to defeat a player who has not achieved the rubicon.

   “Fleming initiated me into the mysteries of Bézique, and at once set about rubiconing me, [...]”