Carton vs. Cartoon

Cartonnoun

An inexpensive, disposable box-like container fashioned from either paper, paper with wax-covering (wax paper), or other lightweight material.

Cartonnoun

A pack of cigarettes, usually ten, wrapped in cellophane or packed in a light cardboard box.

Cartonnoun

(archaic) A kind of thin pasteboard.

Cartonnoun

(archaic) A small disc within the bullseye of a target.

Cartonnoun

(archaic) A shot that strikes this disc.

Cartonverb

To put in a carton.

Cartonnoun

Pasteboard for paper boxes; also, a pasteboard box.

Cartonnoun

the quantity contained in a carton

Cartonnoun

a box made of cardboard; opens by flaps on top

Cartonnoun

a small, light box or container in which drinks or foodstuffs are packaged

Cartonnoun

a large container of goods.

Carton

A carton is a box or container usually made of liquid packaging board, paperboard and sometimes of corrugated fiberboard. Many types of cartons are used in packaging.

Cartoonnoun

(comics) A humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings.

Cartoonnoun

(comics) A drawing satirising current public figures.

Cartoonnoun

(arts) An artist's preliminary sketch.

Cartoonnoun

(animation) An animated piece of film which is often but not exclusively humorous.

Cartoonnoun

A diagram in a scientific concept.

Cartoonverb

To draw a cartoon, a humorous drawing.

Cartoonverb

(arts) To make a preliminary sketch.

Cartoonnoun

A design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; - used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of Raphael.

Cartoonnoun

A large pictorial sketch, as in a journal or magazine; esp. a pictorial caricature; as, the cartoons of "Puck."

Cartoonnoun

same as comic strip.

Cartoonnoun

a motion picture consisting of a series of frames, each being a photograph of a drawing rather than a frame produced by filming a scene of true action, and in which the objects are displaced slightly in succeeding frames so as to give the appearance of motion when projected as a motion picture on the screen. The types of characters portrayed in such films are often similar or identical to those in a comic strip.

Cartoonnoun

a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine

Cartoonnoun

a film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence

Cartoonverb

draw cartoons of

Cartoon

A cartoon is a type of illustration that is typically drawn, sometimes animated, in an unrealistic or semi-realistic style. The specific meaning has evolved over time, but the modern usage usually refers to either: an image or series of images intended for satire, caricature, or humor; or a motion picture that relies on a sequence of illustrations for its animation.