different between cartoon vs caroon
cartoon
English
Etymology
In British English first, from French carton (“sketch, cardboard, card”), from Italian cartone (“cardboard, carton, box”), augmentative of carta (“paper”), from Latin carta (“papyrus”). Doublet of carton.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /k???tu?n/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k???tu?n/
- Rhymes: -u?n
Noun
cartoon (plural cartoons)
- (comics) A humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings.
- (comics) A drawing satirising current public figures.
- (art) An artist's preliminary sketch.
- (animation) An animated piece of film which is often but not exclusively humorous.
- 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
- The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
- 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
- A diagram in a scientific concept.
Synonyms
- (humorous drawing or strip): comic strip, strip cartoon
- (satire of public figures): caricature, political cartoon
- (animated piece of film): animated cartoon, animation
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
cartoon (third-person singular simple present cartoons, present participle cartooning, simple past and past participle cartooned)
- (art, comics, animation) To draw a cartoon, a humorous drawing.
- (art) To make a preliminary sketch.
Anagrams
- coranto
Portuguese
Noun
cartoon m (plural cartoons)
- Alternative form of cartune
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caroon
English
Etymology
A corruption of the Sabir and Italian corona (“crown”).
Noun
caroon (plural caroons)
- (Britain, obsolete slang) A crown (coin); its value, 5 shillings.
- 1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words
- Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.
- 1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words
Derived terms
- madza caroon
- tusheroon, tosheroon, tossaroon
Anagrams
- Corona, corona, racoon
caroon From the web:
- what cartoon character do i look like
- what cartoon character am i
- what cartoon do i look like
- what cartoon character said heavens to murgatroyd
- what cartoons were popular in the 1960s
- what cartoons are on hulu
- what cartoons are on netflix
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