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Thyme vs Carom - What's the difference?

thyme | carom |

As nouns the difference between thyme and carom

is that thyme is any plant of the labiate genus Thymus, such as the garden thyme, species: Thymus vulgaris, a warm, pungent aromatic, that is much used to give a relish to seasoning and soups while 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.

As a verb carom is

to make a carom shot in billiards.

thyme

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any plant of the labiate genus Thymus , such as the (garden thyme), , a warm, pungent aromatic, that is much used to give a relish to seasoning and soups.
  • (rfv-sense) (poetic, Ireland, UK, dated) A metaphor for virginity, chastity.
  • * 17th century , A Bunch of Thyme (traditional song):
    • Come all ye maidens young and fair
    And you that are blooming in your prime
    Always beware and keep your garden fair
    Let no man steal away your thyme
  • * 19th century , A Sprig of Thyme (traditional):
    • Wunst I had a sprig of thyme ,
    it prospered by night and by day
    ill a false young man came acourtin' te me,
    and he stole all this thyme away.

    Derived terms

    * (cat thyme) * thymic * thymol * (wild thyme)

    References

    * Source Guide to the Music of Percy Grainger * Bunch of Thyme – a coded warning to women

    External links

    * ("thyme" on Wikipedia) * * ----

    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)

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