roulette
(noun) a gambling game in which players bet on which compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball will come to rest in
roulette, toothed wheel
(noun) a wheel with teeth for making a row of perforations
roulette, line roulette
(noun) a line generated by a point on one figure rolling around a second figure
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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.
roulette (third-person singular simple present roulettes, present participle rouletting, simple past and past participle rouletted)
To separate or decorate by incisions made with a small toothed wheel.
Source: Wiktionary
Rou*lette", n. Etym: [F., properly, a little wheel or ball. See Rouleau, Roll.]
1. 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. (Fine Arts) (a) A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to order to produce rows of dots. (b) A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint.
3. (Geom.)
Definition: the curve traced by any point in the plane of a given curve when the latter rolls, without sliding, over another fixed curve. See Cycloid, and Epycycloid.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 May 2025
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
