roulette
See also: Roulette
English
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for roulette in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛt
Noun
roulette (countable and uncountable, plural roulettes)
- (uncountable) A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game.
- (countable) A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to produce rows of dots.
- (countable) A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint.
- (countable, geometry) The locus of a point on a plane curve that rolls without slipping along another fixed plane curve.
- (philately) Any of the small incisions on a sheet of stamps, used as an alternative to perforations.
- A cylindrical curler for the hair.
Derived terms
- Delaunay roulette
- roulette table
- roulette wheel
- Russian roulette
- Sturm roulette
- Vatican roulette
Translations
game of chance
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Verb
roulette (third-person singular simple present roulettes, present participle rouletting, simple past and past participle rouletted)
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁu.lɛt/
Audio (file)
Noun
roulette f (plural roulettes)
Synonyms
Derived terms
- comme sur des roulettes
- patin à roulettes
- roulette de défilement
- roulette de timbres
- roulette russe
References
- WordReference, roulette
Further reading
- “roulette” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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