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# billiard

adjective (billiard – as in «billiard table», «billiard room», «billiard ball»); noun (billiards – the game, uncountable)

«billiard» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Belonging to the game of billiards: a game played on a large table covered in green cloth, where players hit balls with a long stick called a cue. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/billiard/#m1)
2. (billiards) The game itself; snooker and pool are related games. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/billiard/#m2)

### In the lessons

In big houses like Toad Hall there was a billiard room; in The Wind in the Willows the weasels and stoats feast in Toad's house. In maths and science, billiard balls show angles of bouncing (the angle a ball hits the cushion equals the angle it bounces off) and how energy passes from one ball to another. Phrases: «billiard table», «billiard ball», «bald as a billiard ball».

### Examples

- The old house had a billiard room with a huge green table. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/billiard/#x1)
- The billiard balls clicked together. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/billiard/#x2)
- Grandad taught me to play billiards. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/billiard/#x3)
- A billiard ball bounces off the cushion at the same angle it hits it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/billiard/#x4)
- The billiard cue was taller than me. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/billiard/#x5)
- «He's as bald as a billiard ball!» laughed Dad. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/billiard/#x6)

### Note

«Billiard» (no s) is used before a noun: «a billiard table». The game is «billiards», which takes a singular verb: «Billiards is fun.»

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «billiard» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/billiard/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«billiard» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/billiard.html) on Mova free.