Caron vs Carom - What's the difference?
caron | carom |
(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.
To make a carom (shot in billiards).
To strike and bounce back; to strike (something) and rebound.
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As a proper noun caron
is .As a noun carom is
(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.As a verb carom is
to make a carom (shot in billiards).caron
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Usage notes
Caron gained usage through the computer world, through usage at and later in Unicode. As such, it is the most common name in many computer environments, whereas some form of há?ek is more common in linguistic circles.Anagrams
* * * * English terms with unknown etymologies ----carom
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Alternative forms
* carromNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (shot in which the cue ball strikes two balls) cannon (UK)Verb
(en verb)- 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.
- [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.