单词	billiard
释义	billiardsbil‧liards /ˈbɪljədz $ -ərdz/ noun [uncountable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINbilliards Origin: 1500-1600 French billard ‘(stick used in) billiards’, from bille ‘piece of wood, stick’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A naturally gifted sportswoman, she became a proficient sculler, horsewoman, and mountaineer, and even mastered billiards. As in billiards, a direct collision results in backward scattering and an off-centre collision results in forward scattering. He died at the age of eighty-one while playing billiards in the United Services Club. It hangs, he assures me, in the billiards room of White's. Me and Frank had been playing billiards at the Liberal club, a big chapel-like building on Kenworthy Road. Reginald and Henry were having a game of billiards. Trueman's show was an homage to pub sports-bar billiards, darts, skittles and shove ha'penny. We had a game of billiards and then went to a restaurant. word sets WORD SETS► Other Games bar billiards, nounbeanbag, nounbilliards, nounblind man's buff, nounchicken, nouncrazy golf, nouncrossword, nouncue, nouncue ball, nouncushion, noundoll's house, noundomino, noundouble-Dutch, noundressing-up, nounducks and drakes, nounflag football, nounframe, nounhide-and-seek, nounkeep-away, nounkickball, nounkite-flying, nounleapfrog, nounmarble, nounmaze, nounmusical chairs, nounninepins, nounnoughts and crosses, nounpaper chase, nounparlour game, nounpeekaboo, interjectionplay, verbpocket, verbpool, nounpool hall, nounpot, verbpuzzle, nounsack race, nounskip, verbskipping rope, nounskittle, nounsnowball, nounsnowman, nounYo-Yo, nounzap, verb Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► Billiards is · Billiards is played with two cue balls. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB► play · Me and Frank had been playing billiards at the Liberal club, a big chapel-like building on Kenworthy Road.· He died at the age of eighty-one while playing billiards in the United Services Club.· Frank and me had stopped playing billiards the minute they'd come through the door.· At the university I also learned the valuable lesson, not to waste my time playing billiards.· Had she given it away by not knowing that Edward played billiards? a game played on a cloth-covered table in which balls are hit with a cue (=a long stick) against each other and into pockets at the edge of the table → pool, snookerGRAMMAR: Singular or plural verb?Billiards is followed by a singular verb: · Billiards is played with two cue balls.—billiard adjective [only before noun]:  a billiard table
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