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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Etymology
Borrowed from French roulette (“roulette, little wheel”).
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
Translations
game of chance
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locus
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Verb
roulette (third-person singular simple present roulett, present participle es, simple past and past participle rouletted)
- To separate or decorate by incisions made with a small toothed wheel.
- to roulette a sheet of postage stamps
See also
- cycloid
- epicycloid
- hypocycloid
- Wikipedia article on roulette, the game
- Wikipedia article on roulettes in geometry
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
roulette f (plural roulettes)
- small wheel
- caster, castor
- (geometry, archaic) cycloid
- roulette (game)
- roulette wheel
- (engraving) roulette
- roller
- patin à roulettes ― roller skating
- (dentistry) dentist drill
- pastry roller
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- WordReference, roulette
Further reading
- “roulette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from French roulette.
Noun
roulette f (uncountable)
- roulette (game of chance)
Derived terms
- roulette russa (“Russian roulette”)
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