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CARTOONS

"CARTOONS" is a plural of: cartoon.

Date "CARTOONS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1833. (references)


Specialty Definition: CARTOONS

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Literature

Cartoons Designs drawn on cartone (pasteboard), like those of Raffaelle, formerly at Hampton Court, but now at Kensington Museum. They were bought by Charles I., and are seven in number: "The Miraculous Draught of Fishes," "Feed my Lambs," "The Beautiful Gate of the Temple," "Death of Ananias," "Elymas the Sorcerer," "Paul at Lystra," and "Paul on the Mars Hill."
"They were designs for tapestries to be worked in Flanders."- Julia B. De Forest: Short History of Art, p. 246. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: CARTOONS

Synonym: Cartoons (Commentary). (additional references)

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Crosswords: CARTOONS

English words defined with "CARTOONS": animation, animatorcartoon, cartoonistDisney, donkeyelephantWalt Disney, Walter Elias Disney. (references)
Specialty definitions using "CARTOONS": ANGELObarneyhacker humor, hacker humourJoint Photographic Experts GroupPicturesSTAINED GLASS ARTIST, syndicatedTECHNICAL ILLUSTRATOR, Things Hackers Detest and AvoidYellow Book, Jargon. (references)

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Modern Usage: CARTOONS

DomainUsage

Screenplays

It hasn't been the same since cartoons went to color. (Who Framed Roger Rabbit; writing credit: Gary K. Wolf; Jeffrey Price)

Aw touché, Inspector, I think someone has been watching way too many Saturday morning cartoons. (Inspector Gadget; writing credit: Andy Heyward; Jean Chalopin)

No Homer, very few cartoons are broadcast live. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

I thought all children despise effort and enjoy cartoons. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

I just want to be home watching cartoons! (My Science Project; writing credit: Jonathan R. Betuel)

Lyrics

I'd studied your cartoons, radio, music, TV, movies, magazines (What's The Frequency, Kenneth?; performing artist: R.E.M.)

Movie/TV Titles

God Hates Cartoons (2002)

Cartoons Ain't Human (1943)

Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons (1937)

Cartoons in the Hotel (1915)

War Cartoons by Hy Mayer (1914)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: CARTOONS

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Books

  • Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel (reference)

  • How to Draw Cartoons for Comic Strips (reference)

  • The Calvin and Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book: A Collection of Sunday Calvin and Hobbes Cartoons (reference)

  • The New Yorker Book of All-New Cat Cartoons (New Yorker Series) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: CARTOONS

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Photo Album: CARTOONS

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Cartoons depicting officers of the BLAKE in their old age by Charles D. Sigsbee, Commanding Officer of the Coast Survey Steamer BLAKE. In: "Scrap Book Hydrographic Inspector's Office", 1881. Call Number QB QB 281.2 .S37 1881. Credit: Treasures of the Library.

Mrs. Nina E. Allender, of Washington, in her office with great quantities of her political cartoons covering the suffrage campaign, standing with Mrs. Helena H. Wood, historian at Suffrage Headquarters. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: CARTOONS

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

It is recommended that trainers aim to enhance this text-based information by supplementing it with cartoons, illustrations, and photos, if at all possible. (references)

Civil Liberties

Saudi Arabia

The authorities allow the press some freedom to criticize governmental bodies and social policies through editorial comments and cartoons. (references)

Guinea

For example, the weekly satirical newspaper Le Lynx published front-page cartoons lampooning the President and senior government officials. (references)

Congo

On February 28, security forces arrested Guy Kasongo, editor of the satirical journal Pot Pourri, allegedly for publishing unflattering cartoons of the Minister of the Interior. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: CARTOONS

"CARTOONS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 97.98% of the time. "CARTOONS" is used about 248 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)97.98%24319,167
Noun (proper)2.02%5157,705
                    Total100.00%248N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: CARTOONS

Expressions using "CARTOONS": animated cartoons Cartoons [Publication Type]. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "CARTOONS": Spy-cartoons.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CARTOONS

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cartoons.com joe

90

cartoons.com filthy

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CARTOONS

Language Translations for "CARTOONS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Zeichentrickfilme, Karikaturen (caricatures). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

artoonscay

   

Portuguese

  

desenhos animados. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

serier. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

мультфільм (animated cartoons), мультиплікація (animated cartoons, cartoon). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: CARTOONS

Misspellings

"CARTOONS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Carltons, carterons, cartone, cartoone, cartoonish, cartus, castoon, catoon, Caxtons, Chaetodons, Dartons, Kirtons. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "CARTOONS"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "CARTOONS" (pronounced kÄrtuw"nz)
4-t uw" n zplatoons, pontoons, tunes.
3-uw" n zafternoons, baboons, balloons, cocoons, coons, croons, dunes, goons, harpoons, lagoons, loons, monsoons, moons, noons, prunes, raccoons, saloons, spoons, tycoons, typhoons.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: CARTOONS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: corantos, ostracon.

Words within the letters "a-c-n-o-o-r-s-t"

-1 letter: cantors, cartons, cartoon, consort, contras, coranto, coronas, cratons, crotons, racoons, ratoons.

-2 letters: acorns, actors, cantor, cantos, carton, castor, contos, contra, corona, costar, cotans, craton, croons, croton, narcos, nostoc, octans, racons, racoon, ratoon, scrota, tarocs, tronas.

-3 letters: acorn, actor, arson, ascot, canso, canst, canto, cants, carns, carts, coast, coats, conto, coons, coots, corns, costa.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-n-o-o-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: acrodonts, colorants, consortia, copatrons, corantoes, coronates, corposant, courantos, monocrats, nonactors.

 

+2 letters: astronomic, cartoonish, cartoonist, concordats, contraltos, cormorants, corposants, courantoes, nonfactors, octonaries, syncopator.

 

+3 letters: anisotropic, carotenoids, carotinoids, cartoonings, cartoonists, colorations, compensator, confiscator, confrontals, consecrator, conservator, consolatory, conspirator, consummator, contractors, contrarious, coordinates, coronations, corotations, coruscation, cosignatory, cotoneaster, cotransport, covenantors, decorations, fornicators, gastronomic, inoculators, monocrystal, monogastric, nonreactors, obscuration, oceanfronts, octahedrons, overactions, relocations, revocations, syncopators.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Bibliography


  

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