| 释义 |
rou·lette
I. \rüˈlet, usu -ed.+V\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: French, literally, small wheel, from Old French roelete, diminutive of roele small wheel, circular object, from Late Latin rotella, diminutive of Latin rota wheel — more at roll
1. : a gambling game in which players bet on which numbered red or black compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball spun in the opposite direction will come to rest in and in which the bets are placed on a table marked to correspond with the compartments of the wheel
2. : any of various toothed wheels or disks (as for producing rows of dots on engraved plates, for roughening a plate in altering a mezzotint or for making short consecutive incisions in paper to facilitate subsequent division)
3. : fillet 5a
4.
a. : a series of tiny slits made between rows of stamps as an aid to separation of the stamps — compare perforation 2b(1)
b. : a row of teeth, scallops, or dashes along the edge of a detached stamp from a rouletted sheet
c. : one of the slits or teeth of a roulette
II. transitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
1. : to make roulettes in (as a sheet of stamps) or on the edge of (a stamp)
2. : to make (a design) by rocker-stamping |