billiard
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6.3
- adjective
- /ˈbɪljərd/
:
billar
- The bartendress ran up with a billiard cue in her hands.
- billiard ball
So they showed that ACA modeling billiard balls is a universal computer.
- So they showed that ACA modeling billiard balls is a universal computer.
- OK, So we say you look at this collection of billiard balls.
- It's been very kind of focused on billiard balls colliding and from that understanding how gravity works.
- Then another billiard ball comes in, hits the one that's at rest.
- It would take millions of years, millions of years by random collisions of billiard balls.
- First of all, OK, mechanics had to do with like particles, little, little hard, messy billiard balls moving around through space and time colliding, right?
- And I went to a billiards hall and a billiards hall, a billiard store.
- So there's some structure there, but the structure isn't just a matter of the actual things with the actual billiard balls that are banging into each other.
- OK, which we were going to be, which we were going to be able to understand in the way we understand billiard balls colliding with one another or something like that.
Examples
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Her story was interrupted by the sound of billiard balls as she changed positions and aimed.
Fiction book (1995) -
Younger domestic workers spent leisure time in dance halls and billiard rooms.
Academic text (1997) -
So we play billiard combination and put the 12 in the right side pocket.
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Over here, that's the billiard room.
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Near at hand was a bar called the Fancy Free and a billiard parlor of doubtful reputation known as the Boys' Retreat.
Fiction book (1992) -
Eamon was describing the maid's quarters, the stable, the billiard room with the full bar, the ice machine, and the monogrammed highball glasses.
Fiction book (1998) -
The twentieth-century world was, at least in terms of geopolitics, a billiard-ball world, described by the political scientist Arnold Wolfers as a system of self-contained states colliding with one another.
Academic text (2009) -
On weekends, we often gather in the billiard room to play games and enjoy each other's company.
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He mastered the art of spinning the cue ball, which is a crucial skill in billiard games.
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The billiard table was covered in a smooth green felt, providing the perfect playing surface.
Idioms
Compounds
1
3.4
A large flat table with a smooth cloth surface for playing games like pool or snooker
- Archaic
1
4.9
A room where people play games on a long table with balls and sticks, like pool
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word billiard comes from the old French bille, meaning 'ball', and is like the English word ball, because the game is played with balls. That's why billiard means 'relating to the game of billiards'.