Glossary of cue sports terms Glossary of cue sports terms The following is a glossary of traditional English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: "carom (or carambole) billiards" referring to the various games played on a billiard table without ; "pool (pocket billiards)", 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. There are also hybrid pocket/carom games such as English billiards. The term "" is sometimes used to refer to all of the cue sports, to a specific
Bonsai display table or wooden discs are used. Bonsai display tables are used in Japan in particular, and are usually found in the traditional Tokonoma, a niche dedicated to art. From this tradition, there are also some basic rules for the placement of bonsai on the table to be derived from, which are observed worldwide especially at exhibitions. At exhibitions, the presentation of a bonsai with its pot on a formal table has also become the standard. In the western world, however, there are also proponents of the fact that a table for bonsai presentation is a minimum standard in the home and