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Roulette Wheel

Definition: Roulette Wheel

Roulette Wheel

Noun

1. Game equipment consisting of a rotating wheel with slots that is used for gambling; players bet on which slot the roulette ball will stop in.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Roulette Wheel

Synonym: wheel (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Roulette Wheel

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Rotation

Carousel, merry-go-round; Ferris wheel; top, dreidel,teetotum; gyroscope; turntable, lazy suzan; screw, whirligig, rollingstone, water wheel, windmill; wheel, pulley wheel, roulette wheel, potter's wheel, pinwheel, gear; roller; flywheel; jack; caster; centrifuge, ultracentrifuge, bench centrifuge, refrigerated centrifuge, gas centrifuge, microfuge; drill, augur, oil rig; wagon wheel, wheel, tire, tyre.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Roulette Wheel

English words defined with "roulette wheel": Trochoidwheel. (references)

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Modern Usage: Roulette Wheel

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll share my luck with your roulette wheel. (Casablanca; writing credit: Murray Burnett; Joan Alison)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Roulette Wheel

Photos:
Roulette Wheel

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Sounds Captioned with "Roulette Wheel".

PlayCaption
Roulette wheel spinning and slowing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Roulette Wheel

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

roulette wheel

165

roulette wheel picture

30

animated roulette wheel

25

roulette wheel layout

11

american roulette wheel

4

bakelite roulette wheel

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Roulette Wheel

Language Translations for "roulette wheel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Portuguese

  

roleta (roulette). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

рулетка (reel, roulette, tape measure, tapeline, tape-line). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Roulette Wheel

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-e-h-l-l-o-r-t-t-u-w"

-5 letters: outthrew, roulette.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

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Alternative Orthography: Roulette Wheel


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 6F 75 6C 65 74 74 65      57 68 65 65 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01101111 01110101 01101100 01100101 01110100 01110100 01100101 00100000 01010111 01101000 01100101 01100101 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#111 &#117 &#108 &#101 &#116 &#116 &#101 &#32 &#87 &#104 &#101 &#101 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 006F 0075 006C 0065 0074 0074 0065      0057 0068 0065 0065 006C

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

528187787186867125774717178

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Sounds
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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