Blackjack vs. Sap — What's the Difference?

Blackjack (formerly Black Jack and Vingt-Un) is the most widely played casino banking game in the world. The game is played with decks of 52 cards and is an American descendant of a global family of banking games known as Twenty-One.

Sap is a fluid transported in xylem cells (vessel elements or tracheids) or phloem sieve tube elements of a plant. These cells transport water and nutrients throughout the plant.

A leather-covered bludgeon used as a hand weapon, having a short, flexible shaft or strap from which it is swung.

The watery fluid that circulates through a plant, carrying food and other substances to the various tissues.

(Games) A card game in which the object is to accumulate cards with a higher count than that of the dealer but not exceeding 21. Also called twenty-one, vingt-et-un.

See cell sap.

Sphalerite.

Health and energy; vitality

To hit or beat with a blackjack.

(Slang) A foolish or gullible person.

To coerce by threats.

A covered trench or tunnel dug to a point near or within an enemy position.

(card games) A common gambling card game in casinos, where the object is to get as close to 21 without going over.

A leather-covered bludgeon with a short, flexible shaft or strap, used as a hand weapon.

(card games) A hand in the game of blackjack consisting of a face card and an ace.

To drain (a tree, for example) of sap.

(card games) A variant of switch where each player is initially dealt the same number of cards, usually seven, and when one player plays a black jack the player whose turn comes next has to pick up that many cards, unless they play a red jack (as this normally cancels a black jack).

To deplete or weaken gradually

The flag (i.e., a jack) traditionally flown by pirate ships; popularly thought to be a white skull and crossed bones on a black field (the Jolly Roger).

To undermine the foundations of (a fortification).

(weapons) A small, flat, blunt, usually leather-covered weapon loaded with heavy material such as lead or ball bearings, intended to inflict a blow to the head that renders the victim unconscious with diminished risk of lasting cranial trauma.

To dig a sap.

(aviation) A tool of leather filled with shot (or similar), resembling the weapon, used for shaping sheet metal.

To hit or knock out with a sap.

Any of several species of weed of genus Bidens, such as Bidens pilosa, in the family Compositae.

(uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

A blackjack oak.

(uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.

Any of a series of hard, dark soils, often considered low quality, but suitable for growing certain crops such as cotton.

Any juice.

To strike with a blackjack or similar weapon.

(figurative) Vitality.

A common scrubby deciduous tree of central and southeastern United States having dark bark and broad 3-lobed (club-shaped) leaves; tends to form dense thickets

A naive person; a simpleton

A piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people

A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.

A gambling game using cards; the object is to hold cards having a higher count than those dealt to the bank up to but not exceeding 21

(military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.

Exert pressure on someone through threats

(transitive) To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).

To exhaust the vitality of.

To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).

(transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.

To pierce with saps.

(transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.

(transitive) To gradually weaken.

(intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.

The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.

A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.

A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.

To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.

To pierce with saps.

To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.

To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.

A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant

A person who lacks good judgment

A piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people

Deplete;

Excavate the earth beneath