roulette

English




Etymology
Borrowed from. The sense "situation with a random chance of incurring serious harm" may be abstracted from.

Noun

 * 1)  A game of chance in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered (usually red and black) spaces. When the ball stops, it indicates the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game.
 * 2)  An instance of risk-taking, especially when the downside exceeds the upside (contrary to the game of roulette where only the wager is lost).
 * 3) * 2020 November 2, Adam Finn quoted by Alessandra Scotto Di Santolo in Daily Express:
 * By contrast giving treatments open-label slows everything down by leading us up blind alleys while playing roulette with our patients' lives.
 * 1)  A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to produce rows of dots.
 * 2)  A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint.
 * 3)  The locus of a point on a plane curve that rolls without slipping along another fixed plane curve.
 * 4)  Any of the small incisions on a sheet of stamps, used as an alternative to perforations.
 * 5) A cylindrical curler for the hair.
 * 1)  The locus of a point on a plane curve that rolls without slipping along another fixed plane curve.
 * 2)  Any of the small incisions on a sheet of stamps, used as an alternative to perforations.
 * 3) A cylindrical curler for the hair.

Translations

 * Albanian: ruletë
 * Arabic: رُولِيت
 * Armenian: ռուլետկա, պտուտախաղ
 * Azerbaijani: ruletka
 * Belarusian: руле́тка
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ruleta
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: rulett
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: ruleta
 * Georgian: რულეტკა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ルーレット
 * Kazakh: рулетка
 * Korean: 룰렛
 * Kyrgyz: рулетка
 * Latvian: rulete
 * Lithuanian: ruletė
 * Macedonian: руле́т
 * Malay: rolet
 * Marathi: रूलेट
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: rulett
 * Nynorsk: rulett
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ruletka
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: ruleta
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: ruleta
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: руле́тка
 * Uzbek:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: vierintäkäyrä
 * French:
 * Italian: rulletta
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * 1) To separate or decorate by incisions made with a small toothed wheel.
 * to roulette a sheet of postage stamps

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) small wheel
 * 2) caster, castor
 * 3)  cycloid
 * 4)  game
 * 5) roulette wheel
 * 6) roller
 * 7)  dentist drill
 * 8) pastry roller
 * 1)  dentist drill
 * 2) pastry roller

Etymology
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