roulette
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8.4
- noun
- /ruːˈlɛt/
- Specialized
:
ruleta
- Roulette patterns on cooking pots are obtained either with a wooden, carved roulette or simply with the dried stem of the plantain flower (tuo kungo).
- a wooden roulette
- a carved wooden roulette
Examples
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One night, searching for relevant discussions on the Internet, she came across a group of people talking about friends and relatives who had died horribly: drunken driving, Russian roulette, a brain hemorrhage.
Fiction book (1998) -
He pulled out a perforator, a modified engraver's roulette.
Fiction book (1992) -
This is your roulette wheel, I found out.
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But I got to say they bought this roulette wheel off of Amazon and put a cheese ball in it for me.
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He refused to play Russian roulette with in excess of a thousand lives.
Fiction book (1991) -
Cooking pots, which are generally decorated with a simple pattern made by a roulette, may become containers used in a variety of ways, both domestic and ritual.
Academic text (2007) -
Roulette patterns on cooking pots are obtained either with a wooden, carved roulette or simply with the dried stem of the plantain flower (tuo kungo).
Academic text (2007) -
The most serious beefs with Nepal's only international airport revolve around its primitive yet officious check-in procedure, starring a roulette wheel of underpaid security agents.
Blog text (18) -
The artisan used a roulette to create a decorative edge on the handmade book cover.
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She marked the fabric with a roulette to ensure even spacing for the embroidery.
Synonyms
A round gear with teeth that makes a row of holes in paper
Compounds
- NSFW
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9.1
A dangerous game of chance with a gun that people also use to describe very risky actions
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4.8
A round spinning wheel with numbered slots used for bets in the game of roulette
- Specialized
A curve made by a point on a shape that rolls without sliding around another shape
Surface Forms
Etymology
Roulette comes from French and originally meant 'little wheel'; it comes from the verb rouler 'to roll', like the English word roll. That's why the craft tool called a roulette is a small rolling wheel with teeth used to make regular marks or holes.