billiard

名词 n. 数词 num.
/ˈbɪlɪəd/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A shot in billiards or snooker in which the cue ball strikes two other balls; a carom.
  2. Pertaining to the game of billiards. attributive
    — a billiard table; a billiard ball
  3. A dynamical system in which a particle alternates between motion in a straight line and specular reflections from a boundary.
数词 num.
  1. 10¹⁵, a thousand billion (long scale) or a million milliard. UK,rare

词形变化

billiards plural billiards plural

词源

词源 1
From 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”).
词源 2
From French billiard, equivalent to bi- (“two”) + -illiard.
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