different between cartoon vs popeye

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)

1. (comics) A humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings.
2. (comics) A drawing satirising current public figures.
3. (art) An artist's preliminary sketch.
4. (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.

5. 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

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Translations

Verb

cartoon (third-person singular simple present cartoons, present participle cartooning, simple past and past participle cartooned)

1. (art, comics, animation) To draw a cartoon, a humorous drawing.
2. (art) To make a preliminary sketch.

Anagrams

• coranto

Portuguese

Noun

cartoon m (plural cartoons)

1. Alternative form of cartune

English

Alternative forms

• pop-eye

Etymology

pop +? eye

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?p.a?/

Noun

popeye (countable and uncountable, plural popeyes)

1. (medicine) Exophthalmia.
2. Coryphaenoides cinereus (syn. Macrurus cinereus), a deep sea fish.

Related terms

• popeye blacksmelt

Dutch

Etymology

From E. C. Segar's fictional cartoon character.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?p?i/
• Hyphenation: po?peye

Noun

popeye m (plural popeyes, diminutive popeyetje n)

1. a short, strong man