different between carom vs ajwain

English

Alternative forms

• carrom

Etymology 1

Probably corrupted from French carambole (the red ball in billiards).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæ??m/
• Rhymes: -æ??m

Noun

carom (countable and uncountable, plural caroms)

1. (countable, cue sports, especially billiards) A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball.
2. (uncountable) A billiard-like Indian game in which players take turns flicking checker-like pieces into one of four goals on the corners of a board measuring one meter by one meter.

Synonyms

• (shot in which the cue ball strikes two balls): cannon (UK)

Translations

Verb

carom (third-person singular simple present caroms, present participle caroming, simple past and past participle caromed)

1. (intransitive) To make a carom (shot in billiards).
2. To strike and bounce back; to strike (something) and rebound.

   • Snow filled her mouth. She caromed off things she never saw, tumbling through a cluttered canyon like a steel marble falling through pins in a pachinko machine.

   • 1922, John Reed, Ten Days that Shook the World:

     [T]he grubit bombs went rolling back and forth over our feet, fetching up against the sides of the car with a crash. The big Red Guard, whose name was Vladimir Nicolaievitch, plied me with questions about America […] while we held on to each other and danced amid the caroming bombs.

References

carom in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Etymology 2

Noun

carom (uncountable)

1. (spices) ajwain

Anagrams

• AMORC, Armco, Comar, Coram, Marco, croma, macro, macro-

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?sa.r?m/

Noun

carom m

1. dative plural of car

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /?kar?m/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?ka?r?m/, /?kar?m/

Verb

carom

1. (literary) first-person plural present subjunctive of caru

Mutation

English

Alternative forms

• ajouan, ajowan, ajowain, ajwan

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi ?????? (ajv?in).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??d?wa?n/, /?æd?wa?n/

Noun

ajwain (plural ajwains)

1. A plant in the family Apiaceae (Trachyspermum ammi), and its seed-like fruit, which is used (especially in South Asian cooking) for its thyme-like flavor.

Synonyms

• bishop's weed
• carom

Translations