English-Thai Dictionary

billiard

A เกี่ยวกับ การ เล่น บิลเลียด 

 

billiards

N บิลเลียด  pool bin-liad

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BILLIARD

a.bil'yard. Pertaining to the game of billiards.

 

BILLIARDS

n.plu. bil'yards. A game played on a rectangular table, covered with a green cloth, with small ivory balls, which the players aim to drive into hazardnets or pockets at the sides and corners of the tables, by impelling one ball against another, with maces, or cues, according to certain rules of the game.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BILLIARD

BILLIARD Bil "liard, a.

 

Defn: Of or pertaining to the game of billiards. "Smooth as is a billiard ball. " B. Jonson.

 

BILLIARDS

Bil "liards, n. Etym: [F. billiard billiards, OF. billart staff, cue form playing, fr. bille log. See Billet a stick. ]

 

Defn: A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon ) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

billiard

bil liard |ˈbilyərd ˈbɪljərdz | ▶noun 1 (billiards ) [ usu. treated as sing. ] a game usually for two people, played on a billiard table, in which three balls are struck with cues into pockets around the edge of the table: play billiards at home | (as modifier billiard ) : a billiard ball | billiard room. • (in full English billiards ) a game played on a billiard table with pockets, in which points are made by caroms, pocketing an object ball, or caroming the cue ball into a pocket. 2 a stroke in which the cue ball strikes two balls successively. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from French billard, denoting both the game and the cue, diminutive of bille (see billet 2 ).

 

billiard table

bil liard ta ble ▶noun a smooth rectangular cloth-covered table used for billiards and some forms of pool, with six pockets at the corners and sides into which the balls can be struck. • a similar table but without pockets used for playing carom billiards.

 

Oxford Dictionary

billiards

billiards |ˈbɪljədz | ▶plural noun [ usu. treated as sing. ] a game for two people, played on a billiard table, in which three balls are struck with cues into pockets round the edge of the table: (as modifier billiard ) : a billiard ball. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from French billard, denoting both the game and the cue, diminutive of bille (see billet 2 ).

 

billiard table

bil |liard table ▶noun a smooth rectangular cloth-covered table used for billiards, snooker, and some forms of pool, with six pockets at the corners and sides into which the balls can be struck.

 

Duden Dictionary

Billiarde

Bil li ar de Substantiv, feminin , die |Billi a rde |die Billiarde; Genitiv: der Billiarde, Plural: die Billiarden zu lateinisch bi- = zwei und Milliarde tausend Billionen

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

billiard

bil liard /bɪ́ljə r d /形容詞 〖名詞 の前で 〗ビリヤードの, 玉突きの .

 

billiards

bil liards /bɪ́ljə r dz /名詞 U 〖単数扱い 〗ビリヤード, 玉突き (→pool 2 , snooker ).