different between croquet vs roquet

English

Etymology

From Middle French or Old Northern French; see crochet.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: kr?'k?, IPA^(key): /?k???ke?/, /?k???ki/
• (US) enPR: kr?k?', IPA^(key): /k?o??ke?/

Noun

croquet (countable and uncountable, plural croquets)

1. (uncountable, games) A game played on a lawn, in which players use mallets to drive balls through hoops (wickets).
2. (countable, games) A shot in this game in which the striker's ball and another ball are moved by hitting the striker's ball when they have been placed in contact following a roquet.
3. (countable) A croquette.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Portuguese: cróquete, croquet

Translations

Verb

croquet (third-person singular simple present croquets, present participle croqueting, simple past and past participle croqueted)

1. (transitive, games) To play a shot in the game of croquet in which the striker's ball and another ball are moved by hitting the striker's ball when they have been placed in contact following a roquet.

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

English croquet

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /k?o?k?t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /k?u?k?t/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /k?o?ket/

Noun

croquet m (plural croquets)

1. croquet

Further reading

• “croquet” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “croquet” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “croquet” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kro??k?t/
• Hyphenation: cro?quet
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

croquet f (plural croquetten, diminutive croquetje n)

1. Superseded spelling of kroket.

Usage notes

• The spelling croquet was deprecated in 1996 in the new Groene Boekje (“Little Green Book”) spelling reform.

French

Etymology

• croquer +? -et

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.k?/

Noun

croquet m (plural croquets)

1. (sports) croquet
2. croquette

English

Noun

roquet (plural roquets)

1. In croquet, the act of hitting another live ball with the striker's ball, from which croquet is then taken.

Synonyms

• croquet

Translations

Verb

roquet (third-person singular simple present roquets, present participle roqueting, simple past and past participle roqueted)

1. In croquet, to hit another live ball with the striker's ball, from which croquet is then taken.

Synonyms

• to croquet

Translations

Anagrams

• quoter, torque