different between billiard vs baulk

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?l.i.?(?)d/

Noun

billiard (plural billiards)

1. A shot in billiards or snooker in which the cue ball strikes two other balls; a carom.
2. (attributive) Pertaining to the game of billiards.

   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.

Translations

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?l.i.??(?)d/

Numeral

billiard (plural billiards)

1. (Britain, rare) 10¹⁵, a thousand billion (long scale) or a million milliard.

Synonyms

• (10¹⁵): a short scale quadrillion

Translations

See also

• Previous: billion. Next: trillion.
• Symbolic: 10¹⁵ = 1,000,000,000,000,000

French

Etymology

From bi- (“two”) +? -illiard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi.lja?/

Numeral

billiard

1. 10¹⁵, a thousand billion by the long scale, a short scale quadrillion.

Usage notes

• Previous: billion, 10¹²
• Next: trillion, 10¹⁸

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [b???k]
• (US) IPA^(key): /b?k/, [b??k]

Noun

baulk (plural baulks)

1. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of balk

Verb

baulk (third-person singular simple present baulks, present participle baulking, simple past and past participle baulked)

1. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of balk
   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XII:

     What made those holes and rents / In the dock's harsh swarth leaves, bruised as to baulk / All hope of greenness?

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