ALL meanings of roulette
rou·lette
R r - noun roulette a game of chance played at a table marked off with numbers from 1 to 36, one or two zeros, and several other sections affording the players a variety of betting opportunities, and having in the center a revolving, dishlike device (roulette wheel) into which a small ball is spun to come to rest finally in one of the 37 or 38 compartments, indicating the winning number and its characteristics, as odd or even, red or black, and between 1 and 18 or 19 and 36. 1
- noun roulette a small wheel, especially one with sharp teeth, mounted in a handle, for making lines of marks, dots, or perforations: engravers' roulettes; a roulette for perforating sheets of postage stamps. 1
- noun roulette Philately. a row of short cuts, in which no paper is removed, made between individual stamps to permit their ready separation. 1
- verb with object roulette to mark, impress, or perforate with a roulette. 1
- noun roulette game played at betting table 1
- noun roulette perforating machine 1
- uncountable noun roulette Roulette is a gambling game in which a ball is dropped onto a wheel with numbered holes in it while the wheel is spinning round. The players bet on which hole the ball will be in when the wheel stops spinning. 0
- noun roulette a gambling game in which a ball is dropped onto a spinning horizontal wheel divided into 37 or 38 coloured and numbered slots, with players betting on the slot into which the ball will fall 0
- noun roulette a toothed wheel for making a line of perforations 0
- noun roulette a tiny slit made by such a wheel on a sheet of stamps as an aid to tearing it apart 0
- noun roulette a curve generated by a point on one curve rolling on another 0
- verb roulette to use a roulette on (something), as in engraving, making stationery, etc 0
- noun roulette a gambling game played by rolling a small ball around a shallow bowl with an inner disk (roulette wheel) revolving in the opposite direction: the ball finally comes to rest in one of the red or black, numbered compartments into which this disk is divided, thus determining the winning bets 0
- noun roulette a small toothed wheel attached to a handle, for making rows of marks or dots, as in engraving, or incisions, as between postage stamps 0
- noun roulette a series of small, consecutive incisions made in the paper between the stamps in a sheet of stamps, to facilitate their separation 0
- verb transitive roulette to make marks, dots, or incisions in or on with a roulette 0