different between carrot vs karat

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

• carat (Commonwealth)

Etymology

From Middle English carat, from Middle French carat, from Medieval Latin carratus. Doublet of ceratium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæ?.?t/
• Homophones: carat, carrot
• (weak vowel merger) Homophone: caret
• Rhymes: -æ??t

Noun

karat (plural karats)

1. (US) A unit of fineness or concentration of gold equalling 1/24 part of gold in an alloy.

Abbreviations

• kt

Translations

Anagrams

• Katar, katar, rak'at, tarka

Cebuano

Adjective

karat

1. (electronics) distorted
2. (electronics) having poor reception

Verb

karat

1. (electronics) to distort; make distortions; interfere; jam

Finnish

Noun

karat

1. Nominative plural form of kara.

Anagrams

• karta, rakat

Indonesian

Etymology 1

Unknown. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?karat??]
• Hyphenation: ka?rat

Noun

karat (plural karat-karat, first-person possessive karatku, second-person possessive karatmu, third-person possessive karatnya)

1. rust:
   1. the deteriorated state of iron or steel as a result of moisture and oxidation.
   2. a similar substance based on another metal (usually with qualification, such as "copper rust").

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Dutch karaat, from Middle French carat, from Italian carato, from Arabic ???????? (q?r??, “carat”) (and meaning other small units as well, such as an inch), from Ancient Greek ???????? (kerátion, “carob seed”), diminutive form of ????? (kéras, “horn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?karat??]
• Hyphenation: ka?rat

Noun

karat (plural karat-karat, first-person possessive karatku, second-person possessive karatmu, third-person possessive karatnya)

1. carat:
   1. a unit of weight for precious stones and pearls, equivalent to 200 milligrams.
   2. a measure of the purity of gold, pure gold being 24 carats.
2. quality

   Synonyms: mutu, nilai

Further reading

• “karat” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Kapampangan

Noun

karát

1. (noun) coitus, sexual intercourse

Verb

karát

1. (vulgar) to fuck, to copulate

Kavalan

Noun

karat

1. coral; coral reef

Latvian

Verb

karat

1. 2nd person plural present indicative form of k?rt

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka.rat/

Noun

karat m inan

1. carat (unit of weight for precious stones and pearls)
2. karat, carat (measure of the purity of gold)

Declension