different between carom vs caraway

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

Etymology

From Middle English caraway, carewey, carwey, from Medieval Latin carui, from Arabic ??????????? (kar?wiy?), via Aramaic from Ancient Greek ???? (kar?), ????? (káron, “caraway”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæ???we?/

Noun

caraway (countable and uncountable, plural caraways)

1. A biennial plant, Carum carvi, native to Europe and Asia, mainly grown for its seed to be used as a culinary spice.
2. The seed-like fruit of the caraway plant.
3. A cake or sweetmeat containing caraway seeds.
   • 1897, Imogen Clark, Will Shakespeare's Little Lad

     I'll eat her marchpane and her caraways

   • 1916, The Country Gentleman

     the housewife of today can surely match the skill of those of three centuries ago and make "caraways” or cheesecakes

Synonyms

• Persian cumin

Translations

Further reading

• caraway on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “caraway” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “caraway”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Middle English

Alternative forms

• carewey, careway, carwey, carway, carawey, careaway, carewy, carwy, careeaway, charuwe

Etymology

From Medieval Latin carui, from Arabic ???????????? (kar?wiyy?), via Aramaic from Ancient Greek ???? (kar?), ????? (káron, “caraway”). Doublet of carvi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?karwi?/, /?kar??wi?/, /-w?i?/

Noun

caraway (uncountable)

1. Caraway or its seed.

   Synonym: carvi

Descendants

• English: caraway

References

• “carewei, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-26.