Roulette vs Poker - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game.
(countable) A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to produce rows of dots.
(countable) A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint.
(countable, geometry) The locus of a point on a plane curve that rolls without slipping along another fixed plane curve.
(stamp-collecting) any of the small incisions on a sheet of stamps, used as an alternative to perforations.
A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick.
One who pokes.
A kind of duck, the pochard.
Any of various card games in which, following each of one or more rounds of dealing or revealing the cards, the players in sequence make tactical bets or drop out, the bets forming a pool to be taken either by the sole remaining player or, after all rounds and bets have been completed, by those remaining players who hold a superior hand according to a standard ranking of hand values for the game.
(poker) All the four cards of the same rank.
(US, colloquial) Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.
(Webster 1913)
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