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31billiards — [ˈbɪliədz] noun [U] a game in which two people use long sticks called CUES to hit balls into POCKETS at the edges and corners of a table See: pool I, 3), snooker …
32billiards — bil•liards [[t]ˈbɪl yərdz[/t]] n. (used with a sing. v.) gam any of several games played with hard balls that are driven with a cue on a cloth covered table, esp. a game played with a cue ball and two object balls on a table without pockets… …
33billiards — /ˈbɪljədz / (say bilyuhdz) noun a game played by two or more persons on a rectangular table enclosed by an elastic ledger or cushion, with balls (billiard balls) of ivory or other hard material, driven by means of cues. {French billard, from… …
34billiards — A refinement upon the game of pool, being played on a pool table but with only three balls. In broad usage, any game of pool …
35billiards — [16] Billiard comes from French billard, which is the name not only of the game, but also of the cue it is played with. And the cue is the clue to the word’s history, for it comes from French bille ‘tree trunk’, hence ‘long cylindrical bit of… …
36Carom billiards — Carom billiards, sometimes called carambole billiards or simply carambole and, in some cases, used as a synonym for the game of straight rail from which many carom games derive, is the overarching title of a family of billiards games generally… …
37Dynamical billiards — The Bunimovich stadium is a chaotic dynamical billiard A billiard is a dynamical system in which a particle alternates between motion in a straight line and specular reflections from a boundary. When the particle hits the boundary it reflects… …
38Five-pin billiards — This article is about the originally Italian and now internationally standardized billiard game. For the Danish five pin game, see Danish pin billiards. Five pins redirects here. For other uses, see Five pins (disambiguation). Five pin billiards… …
39Pocket billiards — Pocket billiards, most commonly referred to as pool, is the general term for a family of games played on a specific class of billiards table, having 6 receptacles called pockets (or holes ) along the rails, in which balls are deposited as the… …
40Bar billiards — is a form of billiards which was possibly initially based on the traditional game of bagatelle. The origins of the game are uncertain, yet it has been suggested that there is a link to a traditional Russian game.Bar billiards in its current form… …
