EGAVE

roulette

About 0.52 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A game of chance in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered (usually red and black) spaces. When the ball stops, it indicates the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game.
  2. noun An instance of risk-taking, especially when the downside exceeds the upside (contrary to the game of roulette where only the wager is lost).
  3. noun A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to produce rows of dots.
  4. noun A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint.
  5. noun The locus of a point on a plane curve that rolls without slipping along another fixed plane curve.
  6. noun Any of the small incisions on a sheet of stamps, used as an alternative to perforations.
  7. noun A cylindrical curler for the hair.
  8. verb To separate or decorate by incisions made with a small toothed wheel.
    to roulette a sheet of postage stamps

Similar words

line roulette toothed wheel wheel rondo coup raffle game of chance rollerball lotto round robin

Often followed by

wheel table wheels and with tables is in or

Word family

rouletted roulettes rouletting

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