different between joke vs cartoon

English

Etymology

From Latin iocus (“joke, jest, pastime”), from Proto-Italic *jokos (“word, (playful?) saying”), from Proto-Indo-European *yokos (“word, utterance”), from ultimate root Proto-Indo-European *yek- (“to speak, utter”) (of which distant cognates include Proto-Celtic *yextis (“language”) (Breton yezh (“language”) and Welsh iaith (“language”)) and German Beichte (“confession”)). Cognate with French jouer, Italian giocare, Portuguese jogar, Spanish juego and jugar, and Romanian juca.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d???k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d?o?k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

joke (plural jokes)

1. An amusing story.
   • 1708, John Gay, Wine

     Or witty joke our airy senses moves / To pleasant laughter.

2. Something said or done for amusement, not in seriousness.

   It was a joke!
3. (figuratively) The root cause or main issue, especially an unexpected one
4. (figuratively) A laughably worthless thing or person; a sham.

   Your effort at cleaning your room is a joke.

   The president was a joke.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "joke": old, bad, inside, poor, silly, funny, lame, hilarious, stupid, offensive.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:joke

Coordinate terms

• comedy
• limerick
• parody
• pun

Derived terms

Related terms

• jocular

Descendants

• ? Danish: joke
• ? French: joke
• ? Persian: ????
• ? Japanese: ????, ? Japanese: ??
• ? Welsh: jôc

Translations

Verb

joke (third-person singular simple present jokes, present participle joking, simple past and past participle joked)

1. (intransitive) To do or say something for amusement rather than seriously.

   I didn’t mean what I said — I was only joking.

2. (intransitive, followed by with) To dupe in a friendly manner for amusement; to mess with, play with.

   Relax, man, I'm just joking with you.

3. (transitive, dated) To make merry with; to make jokes upon; to rally.

   to joke a comrade

Related terms

• joker

Translations

See also

• jeer
• mock

Anagrams

• ojek

Danish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English joke.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?d?j?w??]

Noun

joke c (singular definite joken, plural indefinite jokes)

1. joke

Inflection

Synonyms

• spøg
• vits
• vittighed

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English joke.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?d?j?w???], (imperative) IPA^(key): [?d?j?w???]

Verb

joke (past tense jokede, past participle joket)

1. joke

Inflection

Synonyms

• spøge

French

Etymology

From English joke.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?ok/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /d?o?k/

Noun

joke f (plural jokes)

1. (Louisiana, Quebec) joke

Derived terms

• faire une joke

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

Derived terms

Related terms

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