billiard
A shot in billiards or snooker in which the cue ball strikes two other ballsA shot in billiards or snooker in which the cue ball strikes two other balls; a carom.
» Tom and I often play billiards.
Мы с Томом часто играем в бильярд.
Ми з Томом часто граємо в більярд.
Meaning
3 sensesA shot in billiards or snooker in which the cue ball strikes two other balls; a carom.
(attributive)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.
Examples
31 sentencesTom and I often play billiards.
Ми з Томом часто граємо в більярд.
ruМы с Томом часто играем в бильярд.
Tom wants to play billiards.
Том хоче грати в більярд.
Tom and Mary often play billiards.
ruТом с Мэри часто играют в бильярд.
deTom und Maria spielen oft Billard.
Tom doesn't want to play billiards.
ruТом не хочет играть в бильярд.
Tom didn't want to play billiards.
Translations
1 languagesOrigin
From French billard with the insertion of the second i and orthographic representation ofFrom French billard with the insertion of the second i and orthographic representation of the French palatalized /j/ sound, originally referring to the wooden cue stick, diminutive of Old French bille (“log, tree trunk”), from Vulgar Latin *bilia, probably of Gaulish origin (compare Old Irish bile (“large tree, tree trunk”)), from Proto-Celtic *belyos (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yos (“leaf”), from *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”).
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