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Billiards vs Lottery - What's the difference?

billiards | lottery |

As nouns the difference between billiards and lottery

is that billiards is (games|british) a two-player cue sport played with two cue balls and one red ball, on a snooker sized table while lottery is a scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance, especially a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, the other tickets are blanks.

billiards

English

(wikipedia billiards)

Noun

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  • (games, British) A two-player cue sport played with two cue balls and one red ball, on a snooker sized table.
  • (games, US) The collective noun for games played on a tabletop, usually with several balls, one or more of which is hit by a cue.
  • English plurals

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    * (l) * See also

    See also

    * pool * snooker

    lottery

    English

    (wikipedia lottery)

    Noun

    (lotteries)
  • A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance, especially a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, the other tickets are blanks.
  • (figuratively) An affair of chance.
  • (obsolete, Shakespeare) Allotment; a thing allotted.