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Pinball vs Rolldown - What's the difference?

pinball | rolldown |

As a noun pinball

is a game, played on a device with a sloping base, in which the player operates a spring-loaded plunger to shoot a ball, between obstacles, and attempts to hit targets and score points.

As a verb pinball

is to dart about rapidly.

As an adjective rolldown is

capable of being rolled down.

pinball

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (games) A game, played on a device with a sloping base, in which the player operates a spring-loaded plunger to shoot a ball, between obstacles, and attempts to hit targets and score points.
  • The ball used in pinball.
  • (figuratively, soccer) A situation where a ball is frantically kicked between many players.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 15 , author=Saj Chowdhury , title=Man City 4 - 3 Wolves , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The opener came from a Jarvis ball which struck Aleksandar Kolarov en route to a lively round of pinball between City players before it was poked in by Milijas.}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To dart about rapidly.
  • * 1996 , Peter Applebome, Dixie Rising: How the South is Shaping American Values, Politics and Culture
    • Like most immigrants, Gibbs came South for economic reasons and soon found himself pinballing around a world circumscribed by the hot growth markets...
  • * 2004 , David Baldacci, Hour Game
    • They went off the road and pinballed alongside a stretch of guardrail as the Bambis scattered.

    See also

    * bagatelle * pachinko

    rolldown

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Capable of being rolled down.
  • * 1992 , Aras Ören, Please, no police
    • Then he rolled down the wooden blinds inside, opened the door and pulled halfway down the metal rolldown shutter outside.
  • (pinball)
  • * 1948 , Billboard (24 January 1948, page 76)
    • New rolldown uses pinball-size balls and, except for the fact that the game has the conventional open rolldown table end and does not use a plunger, the game's playing surface resembles the pinball variation of Bermuda.