Definitions of roulette wheel, synonyms, antonyms, derivatives of roulette wheel, analogical dictionary of roulette wheel (English). Synonyms and other words related to roulette: Meet your meter: The 'Restrict to meter' strip above will show you the related words that match a particular kind of metrical foot. Meter is denoted as a sequence of x and / symbols, where x represents an unstressed syllable and / represents a stressed syllable.
English[edit]
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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. Atlantis bahamas gambling age. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Frenchroulette('roulette, little wheel').
Pronunciation[edit]
English words for roulette include roulette, wheel, caster, drill, trundle and truckle. Find more French words at wordhippo.com!
- Rhymes: -ɛt
Noun[edit]
roulette (countable and uncountable, pluralroulettes)
- (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.
- (uncountable,figurative) An instance of risk-taking, especially when the downside exceeds the upside (contrary to the game of roulette where only the wager is lost).
- 1982 April 28, Donna Hilts, 'TV Report On Vaccine Stirs Bitter Controversy', in Washington Post:
- Doctors and health officials said that the WRC-TV documentary, 'DPT: Vaccine Roulette,' emphasized the risks of the vaccine while ignoring the dangers of the disease, which has been almost wiped out in this country.
- 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 290:
- They would all rather take their chances with the existing policy-making roulette rather than follow process discipline.
- 2020 November 2, Adam Finn quoted by Alessandra Scotto Di Santolo in Daily Express[1]:
- By contrast giving treatments open-label slows everything down by leading us up blind alleys while playing roulette with our patients' lives.
- (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 cylindricalcurler for the hair.
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
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Verb[edit]
Resto casino forges les eaux. roulette (third-person singular simple presentroulettes, present participlerouletting, simple past and past participlerouletted)
- To separate or decorate by incisions made with a small toothed wheel.
- to roulette a sheet of postage stamps
See also[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
rouler + -ette
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ʁu.lɛt/
Audio
Noun[edit]
roulettef (pluralroulettes) Far cry 4 money transferred from poker approved.
- caster, castor
- (geometry,archaic)cycloid
- roulette(game)
- (engraving)roulette
- roller
- (dentistry)dentistdrill
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Catalan: ruleta
- → Czech: ruleta
- → Danish: roulette, roulet
- → English: roulette
- → Galician: ruleta
- → German: Roulette (see there for further descendants)
- → Italian: roulette
- → Japanese: ルーレット
- → Norwegian Bokmål: rulett
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: rulett
- → Portuguese: roleta
- → Spanish: ruleta
- → Swedish: roulett
- → Thai: รูเล็ตต์(ruu-lèt)
References[edit]
- WordReference, roulette
Definitions of roulette wheel, synonyms, antonyms, derivatives of roulette wheel, analogical dictionary of roulette wheel (English). Synonyms and other words related to roulette: Meet your meter: The 'Restrict to meter' strip above will show you the related words that match a particular kind of metrical foot. Meter is denoted as a sequence of x and / symbols, where x represents an unstressed syllable and / represents a stressed syllable.
English[edit]
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. Atlantis bahamas gambling age. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Frenchroulette('roulette, little wheel').
Pronunciation[edit]
English words for roulette include roulette, wheel, caster, drill, trundle and truckle. Find more French words at wordhippo.com!
- Rhymes: -ɛt
Noun[edit]
roulette (countable and uncountable, pluralroulettes)
- (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.
- (uncountable,figurative) An instance of risk-taking, especially when the downside exceeds the upside (contrary to the game of roulette where only the wager is lost).
- 1982 April 28, Donna Hilts, 'TV Report On Vaccine Stirs Bitter Controversy', in Washington Post:
- Doctors and health officials said that the WRC-TV documentary, 'DPT: Vaccine Roulette,' emphasized the risks of the vaccine while ignoring the dangers of the disease, which has been almost wiped out in this country.
- 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 290:
- They would all rather take their chances with the existing policy-making roulette rather than follow process discipline.
- 2020 November 2, Adam Finn quoted by Alessandra Scotto Di Santolo in Daily Express[1]:
- By contrast giving treatments open-label slows everything down by leading us up blind alleys while playing roulette with our patients' lives.
- (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 cylindricalcurler for the hair.
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
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Verb[edit]
Resto casino forges les eaux. roulette (third-person singular simple presentroulettes, present participlerouletting, simple past and past participlerouletted)
- To separate or decorate by incisions made with a small toothed wheel.
- to roulette a sheet of postage stamps
See also[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
rouler + -ette
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ʁu.lɛt/
Audio
Noun[edit]
roulettef (pluralroulettes) Far cry 4 money transferred from poker approved.
- caster, castor
- (geometry,archaic)cycloid
- roulette(game)
- (engraving)roulette
- roller
- (dentistry)dentistdrill
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Catalan: ruleta
- → Czech: ruleta
- → Danish: roulette, roulet
- → English: roulette
- → Galician: ruleta
- → German: Roulette (see there for further descendants)
- → Italian: roulette
- → Japanese: ルーレット
- → Norwegian Bokmål: rulett
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: rulett
- → Portuguese: roleta
- → Spanish: ruleta
- → Swedish: roulett
- → Thai: รูเล็ตต์(ruu-lèt)
References[edit]
- WordReference, roulette
Further reading[edit]
- 'roulette' in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Frenchroulette.
Roulette Synonym In English Dictionary
Noun[edit]
roulettef (invariable)
- roulette(game of chance)
Derived terms[edit]
- roulette russa('Russian roulette')
Anagrams[edit]
Roulette Synonyms In English
