Look up: Roulette

1. roulette
   [n] - a line generated by a point on one figure rolling around a second figure 2. [n] - a wheel with teeth for making a row of perforations 3. [n] - a gambling game in which players bet on which compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball will come to rest in
   Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio
   
   
2. Roulette
   Rou·lette' noun [ French, 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 ...
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/97
   
   
3. Roulette
   Rou·lette' noun A small toothed wheel used to make short incisions in paper, as a sheet of postage stamps to facilitate their separation.
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/97
   
   
4. Roulette
   Rou·lette' transitive verb To make short incisions in with a roulette; to separate by incisions made with a roulette; as, to roulette a sheet of postage stamps.
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/97
   
   
5. roulette
   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. ... 2. A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in or...
   Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona
   
   
6. roulette
   toothed wheel noun a wheel with teeth for making a row of perforations
   Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web
   
   
7. roulette
   noun a gambling game in which players bet on which compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball will come to rest in
   Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web
   
   
8. roulette
   line roulette noun a line generated by a point on one figure rolling around a second figure
   Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web
   
   
9. Roulette
   • (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. • (n.) A small toothed wheel used to make short incisions in paper, as a sheet of postage stamps to facilitate their separation. • (n.) the c...
   Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning
   
   
10. roulette
    (from the article `Siegen, Ludwig von`) ...mezzotint was a portrait of Amelia Elizabeth (1642); in its dedication he claimed the invention of the process, which he described as engraving by ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/r/71
    
    
11. roulette
    (from French: `small wheel`), gambling game in which players bet on which red or black numbered compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball (spun ... [2 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/r/71
    
    
12. roulette
    roulette (rOOlet') , game of chance popular in gambling casinos, and in a simplified form elsewhere. In gambling houses the roulette wheel is set in an oblong table. Its outer area is marked off into 37 (in Europe) or 38 (in the United States) spaces, each of which has retaining walls so that a ...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0
    
    
13. roulette
    Casino game of chance in which the players bet on a ball landing in the correct segment (numbered 0–36 and alternately coloured red and black) on a rotating wheel. Bets can be made on a single number, double numbers, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, or 24 numbers. Naturally the odds are reduced the more numbers are selected. Bets can also be made on the number...
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency
    
    
14. Roulette
    `Roulette` is a casino game named after a French diminutive for little wheel. In the game, players may choose to place bets on either a single number or a range of numbers, the colors red or black, or whether the number is odd or even. To determine the winning number and color, a croupier spi...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roulette
    
    
15. Roulette
    (curve) . In the differential geometry of curves, a `roulette` is a kind of curve, generalizing cycloids, epicycloids, hypocycloids, trochoids, and involutes. Roughly speaking, it is the curve described by a point (called the generator or pole) attached to a given curve as it ro...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roulette
    
    
16. Roulette
    (Marvel Comics) image= --> `Roulette` (real name: `Jennifer Stavros`) is a fictional character, a mutant in the Marvel Universe. Publication history: Roulette was created by Chris Claremont and Sal Buscema in New Mutants vol. 1 #16-17 (June–July 1984) for the antithesis to the N...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roulette
    
    
17. Roulette
    (DC Comics) `Roulette` is a supervillainess in the DC Comics universe. Fictional character biography: Roulette`s grandmother was a Golden Age villain of the same name, who ran a conventional casino and fought Mister Terrific (Terry Sloane). The current Roulette believes Terry Sloane to be her...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roulette
    
    
18. Roulette
    (Wild Cards) `Roulette` is a fictional character from the Wild Cards "mosaic novel" Wild Cards III: Jokers Wild. She was created by Melinda M. Snodgrass. Roulette Brown-Roxbury did not know that she carried the Wild Card virus until she gave birth to a horribly deformed, stil...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roulette
    
    
19. Roulette
    (Transformers) `Roulette` is the name of a fictional character in the various Transformers universes. Transformers: Universe: At an early age, Roulette and her sister Shadow Striker watched as their sister was destroyed at the hands of nomadic invaders. This traumatic event gave Roulette her ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roulette