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kara — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • billiard adj Relating to the game of billiards.
  • carom verb To strike something and bounce off it at an angle, often going on to hit something else.
  • core noun The central or most essential part of something.
  • mandrel noun A round object used as an aid for shaping a material, e.g. shaping or enlarging a ring, or bending or enlarging a pipe without creasing or kinking it.
  • pin noun A short, thin, pointed piece of metal used to fasten things together, such as fabric.
  • spindle noun A slender rod used for spinning fiber into thread, or more generally, any rod or axis that something turns on.

Senses

kara is used for these senses in English:

  • billiard A shot in billiards or snooker in which the cue ball strikes two other balls; a carom.
  • carom (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.
  • carom billiards A family of billiards games generally played on cloth-covered, pocketless tables, which often feature heated slate beds, typically having as the objective to score points or "counts" by caroming one's own cue ball off both the opponent's cue ball and the object ball(s) on a single shot.
  • core The central part of a fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.
  • core (engineering, manufacturing) The portion of a mold that creates a cavity or impression within the part (casting or molded part) or that makes a hole in or through the part.
  • mandrel A tool or component of a tool that guides, grips or clamps something, such as a workpiece to be machined, a machining tool or a part while it is moved.
  • pin (engineering) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
  • spindle A rod which turns, or on which something turns.

billiard — full definition

  1. adj Relating to the game of billiards.
  2. noun A shot in billiards or snooker where the cue ball strikes two other balls in succession; a carom.

carom — full definition

  1. verb To strike something and bounce off it at an angle, often going on to hit something else.
  2. noun A rebound in which a ball or other object strikes a surface and goes off at an angle instead of stopping.
  3. noun In billiards, a shot in which the cue ball is made to hit two other balls in succession.

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