Roulette Synonym In English

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Translation for 'roulette' in the free French-English dictionary and many other English translations. A small wheel, especially one with sharp teeth, mounted in a handle, for making lines of marks, dots, or perforations: engravers' roulettes; a roulette for perforating sheets of postage stamps. A row of short cuts, in which no paper is removed, made between individual stamps to permit their ready separation. A game of chance in which a small ball is spun on a dishlike device (roulette′ wheel`), with players betting on which of the black or red numbered compartments the ball will come to rest in. A small wheel with sharp teeth, used for making lines of marks or perforations.

FrenchEnglish roulette wheel roller caster castor roulette wheel wheeled

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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun[edit]

Wikipedia

roulette (countable and uncountable, pluralroulettes)

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. (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.

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

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Albanian: ruletëf Arabic: رُولِيت‎ m(rulet) Armenian: ռուլետկա(ṙuletka), պտուտախաղ(ptutaxał) Azerbaijani: ruletka Belarusian: руле́ткаf(ruljétka) Bulgarian: руле́тка(bg)f(rulétka) Catalan: ruletaf Chinese: Mandarin: 輪盤賭(zh), 轮盘赌(zh)(lúnpándǔ) Czech: ruleta(cs)f Dutch: roulette(nl)f Estonian: rulett Finnish: ruletti(fi) French: roulette(fr)f Galician: ruletaf Georgian: რულეტკა(ruleṭḳa) German: Roulette(de)n Greek: ρουλέτα(el)f(rouléta) Hebrew: רוֹלֶטָה‎(he)(rulet) Hungarian: rulett(hu) Indonesian: rolet(id) Italian: roulette(it)f Japanese: ルーレット(rūretto)

Kazakh: рулетка(rwletka) Korean: 룰렛(rullet) Kyrgyz: рулетка(ruletka) Latvian: ruletef Lithuanian: ruletėf Macedonian: руле́тm(rulét) Malay: rolet Norwegian: Bokmål: rulettm Nynorsk: rulettm Persian: رولت‎(fa)(rolet) Polish: ruletkaf Portuguese: roleta(pt)f Romanian: ruletă(ro)f Russian: руле́тка(ru)f(rulétka) Slovak: ruletaf Spanish: ruleta(es)f Tagalog: ruleta Thai: รูเล็ตต์(th)(ruu-lèt) Turkish: rulet(tr) Ukrainian: руле́ткаf(rulétka) Uzbek: ruletka(uz)

Chinese: Mandarin: (please verify)一般旋轮线 Finnish: vierintäkäyrä

French: roulette(fr)f Italian: rullettaf Spanish: ruleta(es)f

Verb[edit]

roulette (third-person singular simple presentroulettes, present participlerouletting, simple past and past participlerouletted)

1. To separate or decorate by incisions made with a small toothed wheel.

   to roulette a sheet of postage stamps

See also[edit]

French[edit]

Wikipedia ^fr

Etymology[edit]

rouler +‎ -ette

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ʁu.lɛt/

• Audio

Noun[edit]

roulettef (pluralroulettes)

1. caster, castor
2. (geometry,archaic)cycloid
3. roulette(game)
4. (engraving)roulette
5. roller
6. (dentistry)dentistdrill

Synonyms[edit]

Roulette Synonym In English Language

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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

Roulette Synonyms In English

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.

Noun[edit]

roulettef (invariable)

1. roulette(game of chance)

Derived terms[edit]

Roulette Synonym In English Grammar

• roulette russa(“Russian roulette”)

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