different between painting vs cartoon

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pe?n.t??/
• Rhymes: -e?nt??

Verb

painting

1. present participle of paint

Noun

painting (countable and uncountable, plural paintings)

1. (countable) An illustration or artwork done with the use of paint.

   • "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects; […]."
2. (uncountable) The action of applying paint to a surface.

3. (uncountable) The same activity as an art form.

Synonyms

The same activity as an art form

• third art

Derived terms

• cave painting
• oil painting

Related terms

• painter

Translations

Anagrams

• patining

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