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The following is a glossary of traditional English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom billiards referring to the various carom games played on a billiard table without pockets; 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.
1. Slang term for a red ball, especially in Australia. 2. A red mark left on a bat by the impact of a red ball, most commonly a new ball (which has fresh red dye on its surface). Chest on (also front on or square on) 1. A bowler whose chest and hips are aligned towards the batter at the instant of back foot contact. [1] 2.
Mulligan (games) A mulligan is a second chance to perform an action, usually after the first chance went wrong through bad luck or a blunder. Its best-known use is in golf, whereby it refers to a player being allowed, only informally, to replay a stroke, although that is against the formal rules of golf. The term has also been applied to other ...
Tape it: To play a shot that hits the tape at the top of the net. Tennis ball: Soft, hollow, air-filled rubber ball coated in a synthetic fur, used in the game of tennis. The ITF specifies that a tennis ball must have a diameter of 6.54–6.86 cm (2.57–2.70 in) and a weight of 56.0–59.4g.
Glossary of table tennis. This glossary defines terms related to the sport of table tennis . Alternation of ends. After each game, players switch sides of the table. In the last possible game of a match, for example the seventh game in a best of seven matches, players change ends when the first player scores five points, regardless of whose ...
A role-playing video game that subverts the typical elements of such games. [17] The term was coined by the video game Moon: Remix RPG Adventure. [18] any% A type of speedrun in which the player's objective is to reach the game's end goal as quickly as possible without regard to the normal intermediate steps. Compare to 100%. AoE 1. See area of ...
Stroke (also known as a cerebrovascular accident ( CVA) or brain attack) is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain causes cell death. [ 5] There are two main types of stroke: ischemic, due to lack of blood flow, and. hemorrhagic, due to bleeding.
v. t. e. This is a list of British words not widely used in the United States. In Commonwealth of Nations, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, India, South Africa, and Australia, some of the British terms listed are used, although another usage is often preferred. Words with specific British English meanings that have ...