Cue sports, the Glossary
Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as.[1]
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145 relations: Abraham Lincoln, American snooker, Antony and Cleopatra, Artistic billiards, Babe Ruth, Bagatelle, Baize, Bakelite, Balkline, Bank pool, Bar billiards, Baseball pocket billiards, Billiard, Billiard ball, Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame, Billiard hall, Billiard room, Billiard table, Bob Hope, Bocce, Boccette, Bottle pool, Bowlliards, Bowls, Bumper pool, Calcium carbonate, Carbon fibers, Carom billiards, Celluloid, Chalk, Charles Cotton, Charles Dickens, Chicago (pool), Cigarette card, Clay, Colonial India, Commonwealth of Nations, Continental Europe, Corundum, Cowboy pool, Cribbage (pool), Cricket, Croquet, Crud (game), Crystallite, Cue sports at the 2001 World Games, Cue sports techniques, Cue stick, Cutthroat (pool), Danish pin billiards, ... Expand index (95 more) »
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.
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American snooker
American snooker is a cue sport played almost exclusively in the United States, and strictly on a recreational, amateur basis.
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Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare.
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Artistic billiards
Artistic billiards is a cue sport played on a billiard table.
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Babe Ruth
George Herman "Babe" Ruth (February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948) was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball (MLB) spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935.
Bagatelle
Bagatelle (from the Château de Bagatelle) is a billiards-derived indoor table game, the object of which is to get a number of balls (set at nine in the 19th century) past wooden pins (which act as obstacles) into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over.
Baize
Baize is a coarse woollen (or in cheaper variants cotton) cloth, similar in texture to felt, but more durable.
Bakelite
Bakelite, formally, is a thermosetting phenol formaldehyde resin, formed from a condensation reaction of phenol with formaldehyde.
Balkline
Balkline is the overarching title of a group of carom billiards games generally played with two and a red on a -covered, 5 foot × 10 foot, billiard table.
Bank pool
Bank pool is a pool game that has as its most fundamental requirement that all scoring shots in the game must be made by a called ball off a and into a called pocket.
Bar billiards
Bar billiards is a form of billiards which involves scoring points by potting balls in holes on the playing surface of the table rather than in pockets.
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Baseball pocket billiards
Baseball pocket billiards or baseball pool (sometimes, in context, referred to simply as baseball) is a pocket billiards (pool) that is loosely based on the game of baseball.
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Billiard
Billiard or billiards may refer to.
Billiard ball
A billiard ball is a small, hard ball used in cue sports, such as carom billiards, pool, and snooker.
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Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame
This is the list of people inducted into the Billiard Congress of America's hall of fame to honor outstanding people who, through their competitive skills and dedication, have enriched the sport and industry.
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Billiard hall
A billiard hall, also known as a, pool hall, snooker hall, pool room or pool parlour, is a place where people get together for playing cue sports such as pool, snooker or carom billiards.
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Billiard room
A billiard room (also billiards room, or more specifically pool room, snooker room) is a recreation room, such as in a house or recreation center, with a billiards, pool or snooker table (The term "billiard room" or "pool room" may also be used for a business providing public billiards tables; see billiard hall.).
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Billiard table
A billiard table or billiards table is a bounded table on which cue sports are played.
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Bob Hope
Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) was a British-born American comedian, actor, entertainer and producer with a career that spanned nearly 80 years and achievements in vaudeville, network radio, television, and USO Tours.
Bocce
italics, sometimes anglicized as bocce ball, bocci, or boccie, is a ball sport belonging to the boules family.
Boccette
Boccette is a billiards-type game played in Italy.
Bottle pool
Bottle pool, also known as bottle-billiards and bottle pocket billiards, is a hybrid billiards game combining aspects of both carom billiards and pocket billiards.
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Bowlliards
Bowlliards or bowliards is a pool game often used as a training.
Bowls
Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport.
Bumper pool
Bumper pool is a cue sport played on a rectangular (or sometimes octagonal) table fitted with two pockets and an array of fixed cushioned obstacles, called bumpers, within the interior of the table surface.
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Calcium carbonate
Calcium carbonate is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.
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Carbon fibers
Carbon fibers or carbon fibres (alternatively CF, graphite fiber or graphite fibre) are fibers about in diameter and composed mostly of carbon atoms.
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Carom billiards
Carom billiards, also called French billiards and sometimes carambole billiards, is the overarching title of a family of cue sports generally played on cloth-covered, billiard tables.
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Celluloid
Celluloids are a class of materials produced by mixing nitrocellulose and camphor, often with added dyes and other agents.
Chalk
Chalk is a soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock.
Charles Cotton
Charles Cotton (28 April 1630 – 16 February 1687) was an English poet and writer, best known for translating the work of Michel de Montaigne from French, for his contributions to The Compleat Angler, and for the influential The Compleat Gamester attributed to him.
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Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic.
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Chicago (pool)
Chicago is a "" pool gambling game.
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Cigarette card
Cigarette cards are trading cards issued by tobacco manufacturers to stiffen cigarette packaging and advertise cigarette brands.
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Clay
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, Al2Si2O5(OH)4).
Colonial India
Colonial India was the part of the Indian subcontinent that was occupied by European colonial powers during the Age of Discovery.
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Commonwealth of Nations
The Commonwealth of Nations, often simply referred to as the Commonwealth, is an international association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former territories of the British Empire from which it developed.
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Continental Europe
Continental Europe or mainland Europe is the contiguous mainland of Europe, excluding its surrounding islands.
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Corundum
Corundum is a crystalline form of aluminium oxide typically containing traces of iron, titanium, vanadium, and chromium.
Cowboy pool
Cowboy pool (or simply cowboy) is a hybrid pool game combining elements of English billiards through an intermediary game, with more standard pocket billiards characteristics.
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Cribbage (pool)
Cribbage, sometimes called cribbage pool, fifteen points and pair pool, is a two-player pool game that, like its namesake card game, has a scoring system which awards points for pairing groups of balls (rather than playing cards) that total 15.
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Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players on a field, at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps.
Croquet
Croquet is a sport that involves hitting wooden, plastic, or composite balls with a mallet through hoops (often called "wickets" in the United States) embedded in a grass playing court.
Crud (game)
Bölze is a fast-paced game played on a snooker table (or, if unavailable, a billiards table), usually on military bases in several countries.
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Crystallite
A crystallite is a small or even microscopic crystal which forms, for example, during the cooling of many materials.
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Cue sports at the 2001 World Games
The cue sports competition at the 2001 World Games, including three-cushion billiards, nine-ball (a pool discipline) and snooker, took place from 22 to 26 August at the Selion Plaza in Akita, Japan.
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Cue sports techniques
Cue sports techniques (usually more specific, e.g., billiards techniques, snooker techniques) are a vital important aspect of game play in the various cue sports such as carom billiards, pool, snooker and other games.
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Cue stick
A cue stick (or simply cue, more specifically billiards cue, pool cue, or snooker cue) is an item of sporting equipment essential to the games of pool, snooker and carom billiards.
Cutthroat (pool)
Cutthroat or cut-throat, also sometimes referred to as three-man-screw, is a typically three-player or team pocket billiards game, played on a pool table, with a full standard set of pool balls (15 numbered s and a); the game cannot be played with three or more players with an unnumbered reds-and-yellows ball set, as used in blackball.
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Danish pin billiards
Danish billiards or keglebillard, sometimes called Danish five-pin billiards, is the traditional cue sport of Denmark, and the game remains predominantly played in that country.
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Duke of Norfolk
Duke of Norfolk is a title in the peerage of England, and is the premier non-royal peerage.
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Eastern Bloc
The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc (Combloc), the Socialist Bloc, and the Soviet Bloc, was the unofficial coalition of communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America that were aligned with the Soviet Union and existed during the Cold War (1947–1991).
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Eight-ball
Eight-ball (also spelled 8-ball or eightball, and sometimes called solids and stripes, spots and stripes, big ones and little ones, or rarely highs and lows) is a discipline of pool played on a billiard table with six pockets, cue sticks, and sixteen billiard balls (a and fifteen s).
Eight-ball pool (British variation)
The English-originating version of eight-ball pool, also known as English pool, English eight-ball, blackball, or simply reds and yellows, is a pool game played with sixteen balls (a and fifteen usually unnumbered) on a small pool table with six.
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English billiards
English billiards, called simply billiards in the United Kingdom and in many former British colonies, is a cue sport that combines the aspects of carom billiards and pool.
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Fifteen-ball pool
Fifteen-ball pool, also known as sixty-one pool, is a pocket billiards game developed in America in the nineteenth century from pyramid pool.
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Five-pin billiards
Five-pin billiards or simply five-pins or 5-pins (cinque birilli;, Federazione Italiana Biliardo Sportivo, 2004, Italy. cinco quillas or casín), is today usually a carom billiards form of cue sport, though sometimes still played on a pocket table.
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For Dummies
For Dummies is an extensive series of instructional reference books which are intended to present non-intimidating guides for readers new to the various topics covered.
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Four-ball billiards
Four-ball billiards or four-ball carom (often abbreviated to simply four-ball, and sometimes spelled 4-ball or fourball) is a carom billiards game, played on a pocketless table with four billiard balls, usually two red and two white, one of the latter with a spot to distinguish it (in some sets, one of the white balls is yellow instead of spotted).
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Game of skill
A game of skill or game of wits is a game where the outcome is determined mainly by mental or physical skill, rather than chance.
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George Armstrong Custer
George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars.
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George Washington
George Washington (February 22, 1732, 1799) was an American Founding Father, military officer, and politician who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797.
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Glossary of cue sports terms
The following is a glossary of traditional English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom billiards referring to the various games played on a billiard table without; pool, which denotes a host of games played on a table with six pockets; and snooker, played on a large pocket table, and which has a sport culture unto itself distinct from pool.
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Golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit a ball into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf (billiards)
Golf billiards (also referred to as simply golf in clear context, and sometimes called golf pool or golf pocket billiards) is a pocket billiards game usually played for money.
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Golf club
A golf club is a club used to hit a golf ball in a game of golf.
Gonystylus
Gonystylus is a southeast Asian genus of about 30 species of hardwood trees also known as ramin, melawis (Malay) and ramin telur (Sarawak).
Goriziana
Goriziana or nine-pin billiards (also known as nine-pins, 9-pins, etc.) is a carom billiards game, especially popular in Italy.
Ground billiards
Ground billiards is a modern term for a family of medieval European lawn games, the original names of which are mostly unknown, played with a long-handled mallet (the), wooden balls, a hoop (the pass), and an upright skittle or pin (the king).
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Harcourt (publisher)
Harcourt was an American publishing firm with a long history of publishing fiction and nonfiction for adults and children.
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History of the British Army
The history of the British Army spans over three and a half centuries since its founding in 1660 and involves numerous European wars, colonial wars and world wars.
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Honolulu (pool)
Honolulu, also known as banks, kisses, and combinations or indirect, is a pocket billiards game.
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Hustling
Hustling is the deceptive act of disguising one's skill in a sport or game with the intent of luring someone of probably lesser skill into gambling (or gambling for higher than current stakes) with the hustler, as a form of both a confidence trick and match fixing.
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers.
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Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution.
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International Billiards and Snooker Federation
The International Billiards & Snooker Federation (IBSF) is an organisation that governs non-professional snooker and English billiards around the world.
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International Speed Pool Challenge
The International Speed Pool Challenge is a pool (pocket billiards) tournament held in the United States from 2006 to 2010.
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Ivory
Ivory is a hard, white material from the tusks (traditionally from elephants) and teeth of animals, that consists mainly of dentine, one of the physical structures of teeth and tusks.
Jackie Gleason
John Herbert Gleason (February 26, 1916June 24, 1987), known as Jackie Gleason, was an American actor, comedian, writer, and composer also known as "The Great One".
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Jacob Schaefer Sr.
Jacob Schaefer Sr. (February 2, 1855 – March 8, 1910), nicknamed "The Wizard", was a professional carom billiards player, especially of the straight rail and balkline games, and was posthumously inducted into the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame in 1968.
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Jeu de mail
Jeu de mail or jeu de maille ('pallamaglio' in Italian, Middle French for 'mallet game', or sometimes interpreted as 'straw game') is an ancient outdoor game, originally from Naples, which gave rise to numerous modern sports, such as golf, croquet, hockey and its variations, and polo.
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John Thurston (inventor)
John Thurston (1777–1850) was an inventor who developed the use of slate beds and rubber cushions for billiard tables.
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John Wesley Hyatt
John Wesley Hyatt (November 28, 1837 – May 10, 1920) was an American inventor.
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Jules Grévy
François Judith Paul Grévy (15 August 1807 – 9 September 1891), known as Jules Grévy, was a French lawyer and politician who served as President of France from 1879 to 1887.
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Kaisa (cue sport)
Kaisa or karoliina is a cue sport mainly played in Finland.
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Kelly pool
Kelly pool (also known as pea pool, pill pool, keeley, the keilley game, and killy) is a pool game played on a standard pool table using a standard set of 16 pool balls.
Killer (pool)
Killer or killers is a multi-player folk variant of straight pool in which each player is assigned a set number of "lives" and takes one shot per to attempt to a ball, or else lose a life.
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Lawn game
A lawn game is an outdoor game that can be played on a lawn.
Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and Anglican priest.
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Lithography
Lithography is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water.
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Louis XI
Louis XI (3 July 1423 – 30 August 1483), called "Louis the Prudent" (le Prudent), was King of France from 1461 to 1483.
Louis XIV
LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.
Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette (Maria Antoina Josefa Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last queen consort of France prior to the French Revolution as the wife of King Louis XVI.
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Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist.
Mary, Queen of Scots
Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587), also known as Mary Stuart or Mary I of Scotland, was Queen of Scotland from 14 December 1542 until her forced abdication in 1567.
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Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.
National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH, is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research.
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Nine-ball
Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a discipline of the cue sport pool.
Novuss
Novuss (also known as koroona or korona) is a two-player (or four-player, doubles) game of physical skill which is closely related to carrom and pocket billiards.
One-cushion billiards
One-cushion billiards also known as cushion caroms is a carom billiards discipline generally played on a cloth-covered,, pocketless billiard table with two cue balls and a third red-colored ball.
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One-pocket
One-pocket is a pool game.
Oxide
An oxide is a chemical compound containing at least one oxygen atom and one other element in its chemical formula.
Pall-mall
Pall-mall, paille-maille, palle-maille, pell-mell, or palle-malle is a lawn game (though primarily played on earth surfaces rather than grass) that was mostly played in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Pool (cue sports)
Pool is the name given to a series of cue sports played on a billiard table.
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Power Snooker
Power Snooker is a cue sport, a variant format of snooker.
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Pub
A pub (short for public house) is in several countries a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises.
Rack (billiards)
A rack (sometimes called a triangle) is a piece of equipment that is used to place billiard balls in their starting positions at the beginning of a pocket billiards game.
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Rectangle
In Euclidean plane geometry, a rectangle is a quadrilateral with four right angles.
Rotation (pool)
Rotation, sometimes called rotation pool, 15-ball rotation, or 61, is a pool game, played with a billiards table,, and triangular rack of fifteen billiard balls, in which the lowest-numbered on the table must be always struck by the cue ball first, to attempt to numbered balls for.
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Russian pyramid
Russian pyramid, also known as Russian billiards (ру́сский билья́рд, russky bilyard), is a form of billiards played on a large billiard table with narrow pockets.
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Seven-ball
Seven-ball is a pool game with rules similar to nine-ball, though it differs in two key ways: the game uses only seven as implied by its name, and play is restricted to particular pockets of the table.
Silicate
A silicate is any member of a family of polyatomic anions consisting of silicon and oxygen, usually with the general formula, where.
Silicon dioxide
Silicon dioxide, also known as silica, is an oxide of silicon with the chemical formula, commonly found in nature as quartz.
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Sinuca brasileira
Sinuca brasileira (Portuguese for Brazilian snooker), often simply called sinuca, is a cue sport played on a snooker table, using only one instead of snooker's fifteen, with the normal six of the standard set of snooker balls.
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Six-red snooker
Six-red snooker (sometimes spelled six-reds, 6-red, and also known as super 6s), is a variant of snooker, but with only six initially on the table as opposed to the standard fifteen.
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Snooker
Snooker (pronounced) is a cue sport played on a rectangular billiards table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six pockets, one at each corner and one in the middle of each long side.
Speed pool
Speed pool (also called speedball), is a pool game, in which a player s all the balls on the table as quickly as possible.
Sterling Publishing
Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. is a publisher of a broad range of subject areas, with multiple imprints and more than 5,000 titles in print.
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Straight pool
Straight pool, which is also called 14.1 continuous and 14.1 rack, is a cue sport in which two competing players attempt to as many s as possible without playing a. The game was the primary version of pool played in professional competition until it was superseded by faster-playing games like nine-ball and eight-ball in the 1980s.
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Straight rail
Straight rail, also called straight billiards, three-ball billiards, or the free game, is a discipline of carom billiards that is the most basic form of the game.
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Tail
The tail is the section at the rear end of certain kinds of animals' bodies; in general, the term refers to a distinct, flexible appendage to the torso.
Talc
Talc, or talcum, is a clay mineral composed of hydrated magnesium silicate, with the chemical formula.
Tübingen
Tübingen (Dibenga) is a traditional university city in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Ten-ball
Ten-ball is a rotation pool game similar to nine-ball, but using ten balls instead of nine, and with the 10 ball instead of the 9 as the "".
The Compleat Gamester
The Compleat Gamester, first published in 1674, is one of the earliest known English-language games compendia.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), often referred to as Teddy or T.R., was an American politician, soldier, conservationist, historian, naturalist, explorer and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909.
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Three-ball
Three-ball (or "3-ball", colloquially) is a folk game of pool played with any three standard pool s and.
Three-cushion billiards
Three-cushion billiards, also called three-cushion carom, is a form of carom billiards.
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Transworld (publisher)
Transworld is a British publishing house in Ealing, London that is a division of Penguin Random House, one of the world's largest mass media groups.
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Trick shot
A trick shot (also trickshot or trick-shot) is a shot played on a billiards table (most often a pool table, though snooker tables are also used), which seems unlikely or impossible or requires significant skill.
Trucco
Trucco (also called trucks, troco,Oxford English Dictionary; see "troco" and "trucks" entries. or lawn billiards) is an Italian and later English lawn game, a form of ground billiards played with heavy balls, large-headed cues sometimes called tacks, a ring (also called the argolis or port), and sometimes an upright pin (the sprigg or king).
United States National Library of Medicine
The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), operated by the United States federal government, is the world's largest medical library.
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Wiley (publisher)
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley, is an American multinational publishing company that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials.
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William A. Spinks
William Alexander Spinks Jr. (July 11, 1865 – January 15, 1933) was an American professional player of carom billiards in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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William Hoskins (inventor)
William Hoskins (1862–1934), A Guide to the Chemical History of Chicago, Chemical History in Chicago Project, date unspecified; accessed February 24, 2007, A Guide to the Chemical History of Chicago, Chemical History in Chicago Project, date unspecified; accessed February 24, 2007 The entry can also be found on Subsequent editions (1917, 1926) were titled Who's Who in Chicago.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.
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World Confederation of Billiards Sports
The World Confederation of Billiards Sports (WCBS) is the international umbrella organization encompassing the major cue sports (billiards-type games), including carom billiards, pool games of several varieties, and snooker.
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World Games
The World Games are an international multi-sport event comprising sports and sporting disciplines that are not contested in the Olympic Games.
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World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association
The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) is the governing body of professional snooker and English billiards.
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World Snooker Championship
The World Snooker Championship is the longest-running and most prestigious tournament in professional snooker.
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Worsted
Worsted is a high-quality type of wool yarn, the fabric made from this yarn, and a yarn weight category.
1959 News of the World Snooker Plus Tournament
The 1959 News of the World Snooker Plus Tournament was a professional snooker tournament sponsored by the News of the World.
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2001 World Games
The 2001 World Games (2001-Nen wārudogēmuzu), the sixth World Games, were an international multi-sport event held in Akita, Japan.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue_sports
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