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Pronunciation: [bˈɪlɪəd] (IPA)

Billiards is a classic game enjoyed by many, but did you know there are many synonyms for the word "billiard"? Some of these synonyms include snooker, pool, carom, and cue sports. Snooker is a variation of billiards played with 15 red balls, six colored balls, and a cue ball. Pool refers to the game of eight-ball, nine-ball, and other variations played with pockets. Carom describes a game without pockets, where players must hit both the object ball and the opponent's ball with their cue ball. Cue sports is a more general term that encompasses all games played with cues on a billiards table. No matter which synonym you prefer, billiards remains a timeless and entertaining game enjoyed by many worldwide.
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Usage examples for Billiard

In his search for Tommy Crevequer he had happened upon a man-he kept a billiard saloon-who knew him rather well.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
Now close to the Manor of Hyde, the country home of Earl Hyde in Norfolk, there was one of these delightful Broads-flat as a billiard table, and hidden by the tall reeds which bordered it.
"The Maid of Maiden Lane"
Amelia E. Barr
My papa's house has got a billiard-room!
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood

Famous quotes with Billiard

  • The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
    Ernest Hemingway
  • Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!
    James Taylor
  • The billiard table is better than the doctor.
    Mark Twain
  • It was God who breathed life into matter and inspired its many textures and processes. ...Rather than turn away from what he could not explain, he plunged in more deeply. ...There were forces in nature that he would not be able to understand mechanically, in terms of colliding billiard balls or swirling vortices. They were vital, vegetable, sexual forces—invisible forces of spirit and attraction. Later, it had been Newton, more than any other philosopher, who effectively purged science of the need to resort to such mystical qualities. For now, he needed them.
    James Gleick
  • Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater richness. Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways.
    Stephen Jay Gould

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