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billiard ball noun[ C ] uk /ˈbɪl.i.əd ˌbɔːl/ us /ˈbɪl.jɚd ˌbɑːl/ a ball used in the game of billiards(= a game played by two people on a table covered in soft cloth, in which a long stick is used to hit balls against each other and into pockets around the table): 台球用球 The clack of billiard balls resonated from a nearby room.台球的噼啪声从附近的房间里传了出来。 His head was shaved as round and smooth as a billiard ball.他的头剃得像一枚台球一样圆润光滑。 Baris-Ozer/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages When you do physics, you study rather boring sorts of objects, like billiard balls that collide and so on. His best-known discovery, made in the search of a substitute for the ivory used in billiard balls, was the plastic celluloid. Like billiard balls scattered on a pool table, the stories collide and coexist. He hit the car and cannoned off like a billiard ball. Now you can see in the picture that I am bald as a billiard ball. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Snooker, pool & billiards baize bank bank shot billiard billiards break (something) off cannon cue cue ball cushion frame miscue pocket pool pot re-rack re-spot shoot snooker triangle |