[ロシアしきルーレット, roshia shiki ru-retto] (n) Russian roulette[Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (4 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Roulette \Rou*lette"\, v. t.
To make short incisions in with a roulette; to separate by
incisions made with a roulette; as, to roulette a sheet of
postage stamps.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Roulette \Rou*lette"\, n. [F., properly, a little wheel or ball.
See {Rouleau}, {Roll}.]
1. 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.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Fine Arts)
(a) A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a
plate in order to order to produce rows of dots.
(b) A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a
plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint.
[1913 Webster]
3. (Geom.) the curve traced by any point in the plane of a
given curve when the latter rolls, without sliding, over
another fixed curve. See {Cycloid}, and {Epycycloid}.
[1913 Webster]
4. A small toothed wheel used to make short incisions in
paper, as a sheet of postage stamps to facilitate their
separation.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
roulette
n 1: a line generated by a point on one figure rolling around a
second figure [syn: {roulette}, {line roulette}]
2: a wheel with teeth for making a row of perforations [syn:
{roulette}, {toothed wheel}]
3: a gambling game in which players bet on which compartment of
a revolving wheel a small ball will come to rest in
From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]:
Roulette /ruːlɛtə/
roulette
แสดงได้ทั้งความหมายของคำเดี่ยว และคำผสม ได้อย่างถูกต้อง
เช่น Secretary of State=รัฐมนตรีต่างประเทศของสหรัฐฯ (ในภาพตัวอย่าง),
High school=โรงเรียนมัธยมปลาย
