different between carrom vs carom
carrom
English
Noun
carrom (countable and uncountable, plural carroms)
- Alternative spelling of carom
Verb
carrom (third-person singular simple present carroms, present participle carroming, simple past and past participle carromed)
- Alternative spelling of carom
Anagrams
- marcor
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carom
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)
- (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.
- (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)
- (intransitive) To make a carom (shot in billiards).
- 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)
- (spices) ajwain
Anagrams
- AMORC, Armco, Comar, Coram, Marco, croma, macro, macro-
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?sa.r?m/
Noun
carom m
- dative plural of car
Welsh
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /?kar?m/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /?ka?r?m/, /?kar?m/
Verb
carom
- (literary) first-person plural present subjunctive of caru
Mutation
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