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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

Etymology

Borrowed from French roulette (“roulette, little wheel”).

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

roulette (countable and uncountable, plural roulettes)

  1. (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.
  2. (countable) A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to produce rows of dots.
  3. (countable) A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint.
  4. (countable, geometry) The locus of a point on a plane curve that rolls without slipping along another fixed plane curve.
  5. (philately) Any of the small incisions on a sheet of stamps, used as an alternative to perforations.
  6. A cylindrical curler for the hair.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

roulette (third-person singular simple present roulettes, present participle rouletting, simple past and past participle rouletted)

  1. To separate or decorate by incisions made with a small toothed wheel.
    to roulette a sheet of postage stamps

See also

French

Etymology

rouler +‎ -ette

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʁu.lɛt/
  • Audio(file)

Noun

roulette f (plural roulettes)

  1. small wheel
  2. caster, castor
  3. (geometry, archaic) cycloid
  4. roulette (game)
  5. roulette wheel
  6. (engraving) roulette
  7. roller
    patin à roulettes ― roller skating
  8. (dentistry) dentist drill
  9. pastry roller

Synonyms

Derived terms

References

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French roulette.

Noun

roulette f (invariable)

  1. roulette (game of chance)

Derived terms

Anagrams
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.