1. Hoyle - Noun
2. Hoyle - Proper noun
English writer on card games (1672-1769)
an English astrophysicist and advocate of the steady state theory of cosmology; described processes of nucleosynthesis inside stars (1915-2001)
Source: WordNetAccording to Hoyle Puzzle & Board Games User Guide, five people cannot play, because one player would lack an opponent sitting opposite. Source: Internet
A collection of interviews, mostly with the generation (or two) of cosmologists after Hoyle, but also including an interview with Hoyle himself. Source: Internet
But any hope of a full chamber returning was thwarted when the speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, insisted on retaining a rule that a maximum of only 50 MPs could be in the chamber at any one time. Source: Internet
Charles Henry Goren, Ely Culbertson, Goren's Hoyle Encyclopedia of Games, 1961, p. 210 500 is a social card game and was highly popular in the United States until around 1920 when first Auction bridge and then Contract Bridge drove it from favour. Source: Internet
Applications of the principle The nucleosynthesis of carbon-12 Fred Hoyle may have invoked anthropic reasoning to predict an astrophysical phenomenon. Source: Internet
For example, Fred Hoyle suggested that potential for life on Earth was no more probable than a Boeing 747 being assembled by a hurricane from the scrapyard. Source: Internet