Solitaire vs. Tableau — What's the Difference?

Solitaire is any tabletop game which one can play by oneself, usually with cards, but also with dominoes. The term "solitaire" is also used for single-player games of concentration and skill using a set layout tiles, pegs or stones.

A vivid or graphic description

A gem, such as a diamond, that is set alone.

A striking incidental scene, as of a picturesque group of people

(Games) Any of a number of card games played by one person, especially Klondike.

An interlude during a scene when all the performers on stage freeze in position and then resume action as before.

Any of several thrushes found in the Americas and noted for having a beautiful song.

A tableau vivant.

A large flightless bird (Pezophaps solitaria) of the Mascarene Islands that was closely related to the dodo and became extinct by the end of the 1700s.

A striking and vivid representation; a picture.

A large flightless bird (Threskiornis solitarius) of Réunion Island, once thought to be related to the dodo but now regarded as a type of ibis. It became extinct in the early 1700s.

A vivid graphic scene of a group of people arranged as in a painting or bas relief sculpture.

A person who lives alone; a recluse or hermit.

Hence, an arrangement of actors in static positions on stage, having the effect of pointing up a particular moment in the drama, conventionally revealed by opening tableau curtains (known as "tabs").

A game for one person, played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by "jumping", as in draughts.

(mathematics) A two-dimensional array or table of data, usually numbers, of various specific kinds.

Any of various card games that can be played by one person. Called patience in the rest of the world.

A table that shows constraint violations of a list of candidates given an input and a constraint ranking.

An extinct bird, related to the dodo, Pezophaps solitaria Rodrigues solitaire), that lived on the island of Rodrigues.

(card games) Mostly in solitaire card games, but also in other card and board games, the main area, where random cards can be arranged.

An extinct bird formerly believed to be related to the dodo, more precisely Réunion solitaire, Raphus solitarius, now preferably Réunion ibis, Threskiornis solitarius.

(logic) A semantic tableau.

One of several American species of bird in the genus Myadestes in the thrush family.

(theater) unit of a play, an opera or a ballet with change of stage setting.

A single gem, usually a diamond, mounted in a piece of jewellery by itself.

A striking and vivid representation; a picture.

(obsolete) A black neck ribbon worn with a bag wig in the 18th century.

A representation of some scene by means of persons grouped in the proper manner, placed in appropriate postures, and remaining silent and motionless.

Living or being alone; solitary

The arrangement, or layout, of cards.

A person who lives in solitude; a recluse; a hermit.

A group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting)

A single diamond in a setting; also, sometimes, a precious stone of any kind set alone.

Any dramatic scene

A game which one person can play alone; - applied to many games of cards, etc.; also, to a game played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by "jumping," as in draughts.

A large extinct bird (Pezophaps solitaria) which formerly inhabited the islands of Mauritius and Rodrigeuz. It was larger and taller than the wild turkey. Its wings were too small for flight. Called also solitary.

A gem (usually a diamond) in a setting by itself

Extinct flightless bird related to the dodo

Dull gray North American thrushes noted for its beautiful song

A card game played by one person