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Carom vs Caraway - What's the difference?

carom | caraway |

As nouns the difference between carom and caraway

is that carom is 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 while caraway is a biennial plant, species: Carum carvi, native to Europe and Asia, mainly grown for its seed to be used as a culinary spice.

As a verb carom

is to make a carom shot in billiards.

carom

English

Alternative forms

* carrom

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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.
  • A billiard-like Indian game in which players take turns flicking checker-like pieces into one of four goals on the corners of (one meter by one meter square) board.

    • Synonyms

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

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a carom (shot in billiards).
  • To strike and bounce back; to strike (something) and rebound.
  • * '>citation
    • 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

    (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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    caraway

    English

    (wikipedia caraway)

    Noun

    (-)
  • A biennial plant, , native to Europe and Asia, mainly grown for its seed to be used as a culinary spice.
  • The seed-like fruit of the caraway plant.
  • A cake or sweetmeat containing caraway seeds.
  • * (rfdate). Cogan:
    • Caraways , or biscuits, or some other [comfits].

    Synonyms

    * (Persian cumin)

    References