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Definition: Billiard Room |
Billiard RoomNoun1. A room in which billiards is played. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Billiard RoomSynonyms: billiard hall (n), billiard parlor (n), billiard parlour (n), billiard saloon (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Receptacle | Chamber, apartment, room, cabin; office, court, hall, atrium; suite of rooms, apartment, flat, story; saloon, salon, parlor; by-room, cubicle; presence chamber; sitting room, best room, keeping room, drawing room, reception room, state room; gallery, cabinet, closet; pew, box; boudoir; adytum, sanctum; bedroom, dormitory; refectory, dining room, salle-a-manger; nursery, schoolroom; library, study; studio; billiard room, smoking room; den; stateroom, tablinum, tenement. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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 | U.S. American National Red Cross Hospital No. 21, Paighnton, England. : Billiard room for wounded patients.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Alma Sanitarium, billiard room, Alma, Mich.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Hotel Utica, billiard room, Utica, N.Y.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Billiard room, Fort William Henry Hotel, Lake George, N.Y.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Res. of A. Buhl, Iroquois Avenue, billiard room,Detroit, Mich.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Billiard room of Hygeia Hotel, Old Point Comfort, Va.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Billiard room, with a deer head and an elk head, in home of Edmund Cogswell Converse, Greenwich, Connecticut.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mary Scott Townsend House, Wash., D.C.: Billiard room.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Barstow, California. Brakeman Thurston H. Lee, (whose home is in Chicago) going to bed at the reading room in Barstow, California. This room has been converted from a billiard room into a dormitory at the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad yard.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
billiard room | 9 |
billiard room decorating | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "billiard room"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | shamyr villiard. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | illiardbay oomray бильярдная (poolroom). (various references) biljardrum (billiardroom). (various references) більярдна (poolroom). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-i-i-l-l-m-o-o-r-r" | |
-4 letters: arilloid, ballroom, billiard, milliard, millibar, morbilli, railbird. | |
-5 letters: ambroid, barroom, bimodal, bollard, diabolo, labroid, lordoma, malodor, mirador, modioli, oilbird. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 69 6C 6C 69 61 72 64 52 6F 6F 6D |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101001 01101100 01101100 01101001 01100001 01110010 01100100 00100000 01010010 01101111 01101111 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B i l l i a r d   R o o m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0069 006C 006C 0069 0061 0072 0064 0052 006F 006F 006D |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3675787875678470252818179 |
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