different between carrot vs garrot

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

Etymology 1

French garrot

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æ??t/

Noun

garrot (plural garrots)

1. A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.

   The Army doctor used a garrot to stop the bleeding from the injured soldier's wound.

Verb

garrot (third-person singular simple present garrots, present participle garroting, simple past and past participle garroted)

1. Alternative form of garrote

Translations

Etymology 2

Origin unknown.

Noun

garrot (plural garrots)

1. A seaduck of the genus Bucephala; a goldeneye.

Anagrams

• Rogart

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French garrot.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /???r?t/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?a?r?t/

Noun

garrot m (plural garrots)

1. club, truncheon

   Synonym: bastó

2. garrote (an iron collar formerly used to carry out executions)

Derived terms

• garrotar

Further reading

• “garrot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

From Provençal garra (“leg”) (see jarret) + the suffix -ot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.?o/

Noun

garrot m (plural garrots)

1. tourniquet
2. garrot (small wooden cylinder)
3. garrote
4. goldeneye (duck)
5. withers

Related terms

• garroter

Descendants

• Spanish: garrote

Further reading

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