Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - roulette
Roulette
roulette
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
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I. noun see: roll Date: 1745 1. a gambling game in which players bet on which compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball will come to rest in, something involving a high degree of chance and unpredictability, 2. 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), tiny slits between rows of stamps in a sheet that are made by a ~ and serve as an aid in separation, II. transitive verb (~d; rouletting) Date: 1867 to make ~s in ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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