different between carrot vs coleslaw

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Middle English karette and Middle French carotte, both from Latin car?ta, from Ancient Greek ??????? (karôton). Doublet of carotte. Displaced native Old English m?re.

• Noun sense of "motivational tool" refers to carrot and stick.
• Verb sense in felt manufacture refers to the orange colour of drying furs.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: kâr'?t, IPA^(key): /?kæ?.?t/; enPR: k?r'?t, IPA^(key): /?k??.?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kâr'?t, IPA^(key): /?kæ?.?t/
• (Mary–marry–merry distinction)
• (Mary–marry–merry merger)
• Rhymes: -æ??t
• Homophones: carat, karat
• (weak vowel merger) Homophone: caret
• Hyphenation: car?rot

Noun

carrot (countable and uncountable, plural carrots)

1. A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, especially the subspecies sativus in the family Apiaceae.
2. A shade of orange similar to the flesh of most carrots (also called carrot orange).

3. (figuratively) Any motivational tool.

Synonyms

• more

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Queen Anne's lace

References

• carrot in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Verb

carrot (third-person singular simple present carrots, present participle carroting, simple past and past participle carroted)

1. (transitive) To treat (an animal pelt) with a solution of mercuric nitrate as part of felt manufacture.

Derived terms

• carroting

Anagrams

• trocar

English

Alternative forms

• cole slaw (US)

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch koolsla (mentioned in English as the Dutch name by at least in 1794), from kool (“cabbage”) + sla (“salad”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??lsl??/
• Rhymes: -??lsl??

Noun

coleslaw (usually uncountable, plural coleslaws)

1. A salad of finely shredded raw cabbage and sometimes shredded carrots, dressed with mayonnaise (white slaw) or a vinaigrette (red slaw).

Synonyms

• slaw (US, Canada)

Descendants

• ? Dutch: coleslaw
• ? Japanese: ??????
• ? Polish: coleslaw

Translations

References

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English coleslaw, from Dutch koolsla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ko?l.sl??/
• Hyphenation: cole?slaw

Noun

coleslaw m (uncountable)

1. coleslaw

Polish

Alternative forms

• coles?aw
• koles?aw

Etymology

From English coleslaw, from Dutch koolsla. Colloquial pronunciation results from similarity of the word to the Polish given name Boles?aw.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (standard) /?k?l.sl?w/, (colloquial) /k??l?.swaf/

Noun

coleslaw m inan (indeclinable)

1. coleslaw salad

Further reading

• coleslaw in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• coleslaw in Polish dictionaries at PWN