different between caret vs carer

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kæ?.?t/, /?kæ?.?t/, /?k??.?t/, /?k??.?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kæ?.?t/, /?kæ?.?t/
• Rhymes: -æ??t, -æ??t
• (weak vowel merger) Homophones: carat, karat, carrot

Etymology 1

From the Latin caret (“it lacks”), the third-person singular present active indicative form of care? (“I lack”).

Noun

caret (plural carets)

1. A mark ? ? ? used by writers and proofreaders to indicate that something is to be inserted at that point.
2. (graphical user interface) An indicator, often a blinking line or bar, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place. Also called a cursor.
3. (nonstandard) A circumflex, ? ? ?.
4. (nonstandard) A há?ek, ? ? ?.
   • 1944, Maro Beath Jones, Inclusive Uniform Alphabet for Russian, Bulgarian, Serb-Croatian, Czech, Polish (Claremont Slavic Series, Claremont College), page 10

     […] the more conventional semivocalic j and the caret (?) respectively.

   • 1948, Bohumil Emil Mikula, Progressive Czech (Bohemian) (Chicago: Czechoslovak National Council of America), 6

     The caret (?), há?ek, is used over the following consonants: c, d, n, t, r, s, and z to indicate the soft sound. The caret (?) is also used over the vowel e (See Pronunciation II, b, p, v).

   • 1991, Michael Shapiro, The Sense of Change: Language as History (Indiana University Press; ?ISBN, 9780253352033), page 58

     In contemporary Czech, the “hook” or caret is no longer in use for lower-case t and d when the latter are palatal; instead, an apostrophe is used (t’, d’) This development is clearly connected with the practical difficulty encountered in printing a caret over letter stems that are too thin.

Hyponyms

• inverted caret

Derived terms

• caretlike

Translations

Etymology 2

French caret

Noun

caret (plural carets)

1. A kind of turtle, the hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata).

Anagrams

• Carte, Trace, acter, carte, cater, crate, creat, react, recta, reäct, trace

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.??/

Etymology 1

Early borrowing from Spanish carey.

Noun

caret m (plural carets)

1. loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta)
2. hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata)

Synonyms

• (loggerhead turtle): caouanne, tortue carette
• (hawksbill turtle): tortue imbriquée, tortue à écailles

Etymology 2

From car +? -et.

Noun

caret m (plural carets)

1. spool, reel
2. yarn (thread of a rope)

Synonyms

• (spool): dévidoir

Derived terms

• fil de caret

Etymology 3

From Latin carex.

Noun

caret m (plural carets)

1. (dated) carex, sedge

Synonyms

• (carex): carex, laîche, rouche, careiche

Etymology 4

From Latin caret (“it lacks”).

Noun

caret m (plural carets)

1. caret (symbol)

Anagrams

• acter, carte, carté, créât, écart, terça, trace, tracé

References

• “caret” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

caret

1. third-person singular present active indicative of care?

Welsh

Alternative forms

• carit (literary)
• carset (colloquial)

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /?kar?t/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?ka?r?t/, /?kar?t/

Verb

caret

1. (colloquial) second-person singular conditional of caru

Mutation

English

Etymology

care +? -er

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k????(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k????/
• Rhymes: -??r?(r)

Noun

carer (plural carers)

1. (Britain, Australia) Someone who regularly looks after another person, either as a job or often through family responsibilities.

   Have you thought of a job as a carer for disabled people?

   He retired early to be a full-time carer for his wife / husband.

Synonyms

• caregiver (US, Canada)

Translations

Anagrams

• Cerra, Crear, crare, racer

French

Verb

carer

1. (slang) Alternative spelling of carrer

Conjugation

Further reading

• “carer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kar?r/, (South Wales also) /?ka?r?r/

Verb

carer

1. (literary) impersonal subjunctive/imperative of caru

Mutation