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carousel

1

[ kar-uh-sel, kar-uh-sel ]

  1. a continuously revolving belt, track or other device on which items are placed for later retrieval:

    a baggage carousel at an airport.



Carousel

2

[ kar-uh-sel, kar-uh-sel ]

  1. a circular tray in which photographic transparencies are held on a projector and from which they are lowered through slots for projection as the tray is rotated.

carousel

/ ˌkærəˈsɛl; -ˈzɛl /

  1. a circular magazine in which slides for a projector are held: it moves round as each slide is shown
  2. a rotating conveyor belt for luggage, as at an airport
  3. a revolving circular platform provided with wooden animals, seats, etc, on which people ride for amusement Also called (in Britain and certain other countries)merry-go-roundroundabout
  4. history a tournament in which horsemen took part in races and various manoeuvres in formation


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Word History and Origins

Origin of carousel1

First recorded in 1640–50; from French: “kind of tournament,” from Italian carosello “kind of ball game,” from Neapolitan dialect carusello “game played with clay balls, clay ball,” literally, “little head,” equivalent to carus(o) “shorn head” (perhaps based on the Greek stem kors- “shave”) + -ello diminutive suffix

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Word History and Origins

Origin of carousel1

C17: from French carrousel, from Italian carosello, of uncertain origin

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Example Sentences

There are all keywords your site is ranking for in Google and those are also search queries showing video carousels.

The Google “On TV now” search carousel shows programming across multiple channels that’s currently airing, while “On TV later” shows recommendations for future programming.

For example, REI’s Knowledge Panel displays a carousel of its most popular products, while The New York Times’ panel has an “Awards” and “Writes about” section.

A centrifuge designed to help astronauts in microgravity looks sort of like a carousel, but with beds instead of ponies.

Whether through featured snippets and knowledge graphs, or carousels of movie times and podcast episodes, Google’s SERPs have increasingly become a one-stop-shop for users’ needs.

In the film, his pals fondly recall the critic bringing through a carousel of unattractive women.

Two feet from the sawed-off stump of a third willow is the small foot-pump carousel Ray was sitting on when he shot himself.

Ray gave Jay a shell, then stepped onto a small, rickety carousel in the comer of the churchyard and loaded up.

It is a wearying carousel of flashing lights and scary expressions pumping up and down in time to the music.

Click on one and the right-hand carousel of related videos fills with a dozen more just like it.

Forbes and Persis sent back mocking smiles as they side-stepped into the carousel.

He was in the place, in Ruby's Carousel, but that none of this conversation took place.

Did you become acquainted with the Carousel Club when you were in Dallas?

Did you repeat again that you had not been in the Carousel Club at anytime?

Did you or your husband ever frequent or were you ever in the Carousel Club or any of those night clubs?

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