different between carom vs carob

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

Borrowed from Middle French carobe, from Arabic ???????? (?arr?b), from Classical Syriac ?????? (?arr???).

Noun

carob (countable and uncountable, plural carobs)

1. An evergreen shrub or tree, Ceratonia siliqua, native to the Mediterranean region.

   Synonym: St. John's bread

2. The fruit of that tree.

   Meronym: locust bean

3. A sweet chocolate-like confection made with the pulp of the fruit.

Translations

Further reading

• Ceratonia siliqua on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Barco, COBRA, CORBA, Carbo, carbo, carbo-, coarb, cobra