Английский словарь американских идиом - roulette
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~ n a game in which a small ball is spun around on a moving wheel, and people try to win money by guessing which hole it will fall into (- see also Russian roulette) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Roulette is a gambling game in which a ball is dropped onto a wheel with numbered holes in it while the wheel is spinning round. The players bet on which hole the ball will be in when the wheel stops spinning. N-UNCOUNT see also Russian roulette ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. noun Etymology: French, literally, small wheel, from Old French roelete, diminutive of roele wheel, rowel, from Late Latin rotella, diminutive of Latin rota wheel — more at roll Date: 1745 1. a. a gambling game in which players bet on which compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball will come to rest in b. something involving a high degree of chance and unpredictability 2. a. any of various toothed wheels or disks (as for producing rows of dots on engraved plates or for making short consecutive incisions in paper to facilitate subsequent division) b. tiny slits between rows of stamps in a sheet that are made by a ~ and serve as an aid in separation — compare perforation II. transitive verb (~d; rouletting) Date: 1867 to make ~s in ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. 1 a gambling game using a table in which a ball is dropped on to a revolving wheel with numbered compartments, players betting on the number at which the ball comes to rest. 2 Math. a curve generated by a point on a curve rolling on another. 3 a a revolving toothed wheel used in engraving. b a similar wheel for making perforations between postage stamps in a sheet. Derivatives rouletted adj. (in sense 3b). Etymology: F, dimin. of rouelle f. LL rotella dimin. of L rota wheel ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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- 1734, from Fr. roulette "gambling game played with a revolving wheel," lit. "small wheel," from O.Fr. roelete "little wheel," on model of L.L. rotella, dim. of L. rota "wheel." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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