billiard

/ˈbɪlɪəd/

noun 3num 1

Collocations

ADJ.

bald, smoother

VERB + BILLIARD

coming, like, owned

BILLIARD + NOUN

ball, cairo, parlor, table

PREP.

from, in, off, than

noun

A shot in billiards or snooker in which the cue ball strikes two other balls; a carom.

Pertaining to the game of billiards.

a billiard table; a billiard ball

A dynamical system in which a particle alternates between motion in a straight line and specular reflections from a boundary.

num

10¹⁵, a thousand billion (long scale) or a million milliard.

a billiard table; a billiard ball

Wiktionary

My father is as bald as a billiard ball.

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Dad's bald like a billiard ball.

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The Earth is smoother than a billiard ball.

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Fadil's father owned a billiard parlor in Cairo.

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Sami's father owned a billiard parlor in Cairo.

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i Register

In some senses, billiard is marked as British, rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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