stuss
- noun
- Archaic
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stuss
- At the club, we gathered around the table to play stuss and enjoyed the thrill of gambling.
Examples
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Playing stuss with friends on Saturday nights became a fun tradition for our group.
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He learned the rules of stuss quickly and was eager to try his luck at the casino.
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Further details of inclusion and exclusion criteria are provided by Stuss et al. (2007).
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The 44 older adults took part in a large-scale study of cognitive rehabilitation (Stuss et al., 2007).
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Their subjective problems did not affect their daily functioning. (Stuss et al., 2007, p. 123)
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The utility of harnessing such variability for the greater understanding of cognitive function is discussed and underlined by Stuss (2016).
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Further evidence of the strong relation of alpha span to measures of verbal ability was obtained from an unpublished study of healthy aging carried out by Donald Stuss and colleagues (Stuss et al., 2017).
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Further evidence of the strong relation of alpha span to measures of verbal ability was obtained from an unpublished study of healthy aging carried out by Donald Stuss and colleagues (Stuss et al., 2017).
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In the cognitive rehabilitation study of 44 older adults (Craik et al., 2007; Stuss et al., 2007), significant positive correlations were found between alpha span and number of years of education, the North American Adult Reading Test, the Boston Naming Test, and digit span (see Table 4).
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Stuss as the card game probably comes from a local players' name or slang for a fast table game, so a helpful way to remember it is to think of a lively faro-like game where people quickly place cards and bets on the table.
