Definition of roulette in English:
roulette
noun rʊˈlɛtruˈlɛt
1mass noun A gambling game in which a ball is dropped on to a revolving wheel with numbered compartments, the players betting on the number at which the ball comes to rest.
- His books on blackjack, roulette, video poker, craps, slots and new games are consistently on the most-requested books lists of Ingram and other distributors.
- Players at the hotel's casino can choose from four gambling tables, three of them for card games and one for roulette.
- It was pretty much an all night event at a recreation center that had ping-pong, racquetball, casino games like blackjack and roulette, and basketball courts.
- Were this to be your goal, roulette could still be your game but an alternate approach would be appropriate.
- There are five information-packed little sections on roulette.
- The artist was famous, of course, for his preoccupation with chess and roulette.
- Blackjack is the only game in town, because unlike roulette or craps, what has gone before will influence what is about to happen.
- New fixed-odds terminals featuring a number of games including roulette were named as the driving force of recent growth at the group's 2,000 betting shops.
- It is one of the best resources for isolating some of the earliest refinements by cheats for shooting craps and for cheating at roulette.
- Do not assume you will ever be a winner in the long run at negative expectation games (e.g., craps, roulette, baccarat, keno, most slots).
- The book does provide reasonable introductions to several casino games, such as roulette, craps, and baccarat.
- The site offers slots, roulette and animated card games including poker and blackjack.
- Day after day, he loses at poker, he loses at roulette, and he loses in life - for he's now addicted to heroin.
- Jean, a young man who works as a bank clerk, is invited to the casino by a friend and promptly wins big at roulette.
- Roulette is the most popular game in Europe; where there is only one zero on the wheel, and the player's money lasts longer.
- Some 1800 people have registered for online roulette from the casino since the service opened in July.
- Risk, he argued, was a randomness - as in a game of roulette - whose probability could be determined.
- In a game of roulette, assuming the wheel is fairly balanced, you might say that the past results show that you can't tell what's coming next.
- Gaming tables, electronic roulette and rows of Las Vegas-style slots fill the casino floor, divided into smoking and non-smoking areas.
- Explaining that he'd been playing roulette, his wife asked how he did.
2A tool or machine with a revolving toothed wheel, used in engraving or for making slit-shaped perforations between postage stamps.
- Frequently the engraver began by etching the foundation of the design, and then built it up by the use of a special curved burin and by roulettes, punches, and other tools.
- This is a method of puncturing a plate with roulettes, punches, and other tools so that modelling is achieved with greater or lesser accumulations of dots.
verb rʊˈlɛtruˈlɛt
[with object]Make slit-shaped perforations in (paper, especially sheets of postage stamps)
the pages are rouletted next to the binding
Origin
Mid 18th century: from French, diminutive of rouelle 'wheel', from late Latin rotella, diminutive of Latin rota 'wheel'.
Rhymes
abet, aiguillette, anisette, Annette, Antoinette, arête, Arlette, ate, baguette, banquette, barbette, barrette, basinet, bassinet, beget, Bernadette, beset, bet, Bette, blanquette, Brett, briquette, brochette, brunette (US brunet), Burnett, cadet, caravanette, cassette, castanet, charette, cigarette (US cigaret), clarinet, Claudette, Colette, coquette, corvette, couchette, courgette, croquette, curette, curvet, Debrett, debt, dinette, diskette, duet, epaulette (US epaulet), flageolet, flannelette, forget, fret, galette, gazette, Georgette, get, godet, grisette, heavyset, Jeanette, jet, kitchenette, La Fayette, landaulet, launderette, layette, lazaret, leatherette, let, Lett, lorgnette, luncheonette, lunette, Lynette, maisonette, majorette, maquette, Marie-Antoinette, marionette, Marquette, marquisette, martinet, met, minaret, minuet, moquette, motet, musette, Nanette, net, noisette, nonet, novelette, nymphet, octet, Odette, on-set, oubliette, Paulette, pet, Phuket, picquet, pillaret, pincette, pipette, piquet, pirouette, planchette, pochette, quartet, quickset, quintet, regret, ret, Rhett, roomette, rosette, satinette, septet, serviette, sestet, set, sett, sextet, silhouette, soubrette, spinet, spinneret, statuette, stet, stockinet, sublet, suffragette, Suzette, sweat, thickset, threat, Tibet, toilette, tret, underlet, upset, usherette, vedette, vet, vignette, vinaigrette, wagonette, wet, whet, winceyette, yet, Yvette
Definition of roulette in US English:
roulette
nounruˈlɛtro͞oˈlet
1A gambling game in which a ball is dropped onto a revolving wheel (roulette wheel) with numbered compartments, the players betting on the number at which the ball will come to rest.
- The site offers slots, roulette and animated card games including poker and blackjack.
- Do not assume you will ever be a winner in the long run at negative expectation games (e.g., craps, roulette, baccarat, keno, most slots).
- Risk, he argued, was a randomness - as in a game of roulette - whose probability could be determined.
- Some 1800 people have registered for online roulette from the casino since the service opened in July.
- Explaining that he'd been playing roulette, his wife asked how he did.
- Players at the hotel's casino can choose from four gambling tables, three of them for card games and one for roulette.
- In a game of roulette, assuming the wheel is fairly balanced, you might say that the past results show that you can't tell what's coming next.
- New fixed-odds terminals featuring a number of games including roulette were named as the driving force of recent growth at the group's 2,000 betting shops.
- Day after day, he loses at poker, he loses at roulette, and he loses in life - for he's now addicted to heroin.
- The artist was famous, of course, for his preoccupation with chess and roulette.
- The book does provide reasonable introductions to several casino games, such as roulette, craps, and baccarat.
- Blackjack is the only game in town, because unlike roulette or craps, what has gone before will influence what is about to happen.
- It is one of the best resources for isolating some of the earliest refinements by cheats for shooting craps and for cheating at roulette.
- His books on blackjack, roulette, video poker, craps, slots and new games are consistently on the most-requested books lists of Ingram and other distributors.
- Gaming tables, electronic roulette and rows of Las Vegas-style slots fill the casino floor, divided into smoking and non-smoking areas.
- It was pretty much an all night event at a recreation center that had ping-pong, racquetball, casino games like blackjack and roulette, and basketball courts.
- Roulette is the most popular game in Europe; where there is only one zero on the wheel, and the player's money lasts longer.
- Jean, a young man who works as a bank clerk, is invited to the casino by a friend and promptly wins big at roulette.
- There are five information-packed little sections on roulette.
- Were this to be your goal, roulette could still be your game but an alternate approach would be appropriate.
2A tool or machine with a revolving toothed wheel, used in engraving or for making slit-shaped perforations between postage stamps.
- Frequently the engraver began by etching the foundation of the design, and then built it up by the use of a special curved burin and by roulettes, punches, and other tools.
- This is a method of puncturing a plate with roulettes, punches, and other tools so that modelling is achieved with greater or lesser accumulations of dots.
verbruˈlɛtro͞oˈlet
[with object]Make slit-shaped perforations in (paper, especially sheets of postage stamps)
the pages are rouletted next to the binding
Origin
Mid 18th century: from French, diminutive of rouelle ‘wheel’, from late Latin rotella, diminutive of Latin rota ‘wheel’.