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English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French roulette (“roulette, little wheel”). The sense "situation with a random chance of incurring serious harm" may be abstracted from Russian roulette.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɹuːˈlɛt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛt
Noun
[edit]roulette (countable and uncountable, plural roulettes)
- (uncountable) 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.
- Synonym: (historical) roly-poly
- (uncountable, figuratively) An instance of risk-taking, especially when the downside exceeds the upside (contrary to the game of roulette where only the wager is lost).
- 1982 April 28, Donna Hilts, “TV Report On Vaccine Stirs Bitter Controversy”, in Washington Post:
- Doctors and health officials said that the WRC-TV documentary, "DPT: Vaccine Roulette," emphasized the risks of the vaccine while ignoring the dangers of the disease, which has been almost wiped out in this country.
- 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 290:
- They would all rather take their chances with the existing policy-making roulette rather than follow process discipline.
- 2020 November 2, Adam Finn quoted by Alessandra Scotto Di Santolo in Daily Express[1]:
- By contrast giving treatments open-label slows everything down by leading us up blind alleys while playing roulette with our patients' lives.
- (countable) A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to produce rows of dots.
- (countable) A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint.
- (countable, geometry) The locus of a point on a plane curve that rolls without slipping along another fixed plane curve.
- (philately) Any of the small incisions on a sheet of stamps, used as an alternative to perforations.
- A cylindrical curler for the hair.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]game of chance
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locus
Verb
[edit]roulette (third-person singular simple present roulettes, present participle rouletting, simple past and past participle rouletted)
- To separate or decorate by incisions made with a small toothed wheel.
- to roulette a sheet of postage stamps
See also
[edit]- cycloid
- epicycloid
- hypocycloid
- Wikipedia article on roulette, the game
- Wikipedia article on roulettes in geometry
References
[edit]- “roulette”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]roulette f (plural roulettes)
- small wheel
- caster, castor
- (geometry, archaic) cycloid
- roulette (game)
- roulette wheel
- (engraving) roulette
- roller
- patin à roulettes ― roller skating
- (dentistry) dentist drill
- pastry roller
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: ruleta
- → Czech: ruleta
- → Danish: roulette, roulet
- → English: roulette
- → Galician: ruleta
- → German: Roulette (see there for further descendants)
- → Italian: roulette
- → Japanese: ルーレット
- → Norwegian Bokmål: rulett
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: rulett
- → Portuguese: roleta
- → Spanish: ruleta
- → Swedish: roulett
- → Thai: รูเล็ตต์ (ruu-lèt)
References
[edit]- WordReference, roulette
Further reading
[edit]- “roulette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French roulette.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]roulette f (invariable)
- roulette (game of chance)
Derived terms
[edit]- roulette russa (“Russian roulette”)
References
[edit]- ^ roulette in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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