different between colour vs snooker

English

Alternative forms

• color (American spelling)

Pronunciation

Homophone: culler

Noun

colour (countable and uncountable, plural colours) (British spelling, Canadian spelling)

1. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Britain standard spelling of color.

Adjective

colour (not comparable)

1. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Britain standard spelling of color.

Related terms

• colourimeter

Verb

colour (third-person singular simple present colours, present participle colouring, simple past and past participle coloured)

1. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Britain standard spelling of color.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• courol, ur-cool

Middle English

Alternative forms

• colur, color, culur, coler, coloure, kolour

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman colur, from Latin color.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku?lu?r/, /?kulur/

Noun

colour (plural colours or coloures)

1. colour, hue, shade
2. pigment, dye (substance for colouring)
3. method (literary or rhetorical)
4. justification, explanation (often feigned)

Descendants

• English: color, colour
• Scots: colour

References

• “c?l?ur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

See also

Old French

Noun

colour f (oblique plural colours, nominative singular colour, nominative plural colours)

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of color

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: sno?o'k?(r), IPA^(key): /?snu?k?(?)/
• Rhymes: -u?k?(r)
• (General American) enPR: sno?o'k?r, IPA^(key): /?sn?k??/
• Rhymes: -?k?(r)

Noun

snooker (countable and uncountable, plural snookers)

1. A cue sport, popular in the UK and other Commonwealth of Nations countries.
2. (snooker, pool) The situation where the cue ball is in such a position that the opponent cannot directly hit a legal ball with it.

Derived terms

• Savile snooker
• volunteer snooker

Translations

Verb

snooker (third-person singular simple present snookers, present participle snookering, simple past and past participle snookered)

1. (intransitive) To play the game of snooker. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. (transitive) To fool or bamboozle.
   • 2018: Ezra Klein, "Paul Ryan's Long Con", Vox.com, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/10/17929460/paul-ryan-speaker-retiring-debt-deficits-trump

     But to critics like the New York Times's Paul Krugman, Ryan was an obvious con man weaponizing the deficit to hamstring Obama's presidency, weaken the recovery, and snooker Beltway centrists eager to champion a reasonable-seeming Republican.

3. (transitive, snooker, pool) To place the cue ball in such a position that (the opponent) cannot directly hit the required ball with it.
4. (transitive, by extension) To put (someone) in a difficult situation.
5. To become or cause to become inebriated. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

See also

• billiards
• pool

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English snooker.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: snoo?ker
• Rhymes: -uk?r

Noun

snooker m (plural snookers, diminutive snookertje n)

1. snooker

Finnish

(index sn)

Alternative forms

• snuukkeri (colloquial)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English snooker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?snu?ker/, [?s?nu?ke?r]
• IPA^(key): /?snu?k?er/, [?s?nu?k?e?r]

Noun

snooker

1. snooker

Declension

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English snooker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /snu.k??/

Noun

snooker m (plural snookers)

1. snooker

Manx

Etymology

Borrowed from English snooker.

Noun

snooker m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. snooker

Mutation

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English snooker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?snu.k?r/

Noun

snooker m inan

1. snooker

Declension