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korona — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • carom verb To strike something and bounce off it at an angle, often going on to hit something else.
  • corona noun The glowing outer atmosphere of the sun, visible as a bright ring during a total solar eclipse.

Senses

korona is used for these senses in English:

  • carom (uncountable) A billiard-like Indian game in which players take turns flicking checker-like pieces into one of four goals on the corners of a board measuring one meter by one meter.
  • corona The circumference of the base of the glans penis in human males.
  • corona (by extension) Any luminous or crownlike ring around an object or person.
  • corona (biology) Any appendage of an organism that resembles a crown or corona (sense 4.1).
  • novuss a game closely related to carom, and pocket billiards.

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.

corona — full definition

  1. noun The glowing outer atmosphere of the sun, visible as a bright ring during a total solar eclipse.
  2. noun A ring or halo of light around a bright object, such as the sun or moon.
  3. noun A coronavirus, or informally, COVID-19.

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