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[kahr-tn]

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noun

a cardboard or plastic box used typically for storage or shipping.

the amount a carton can hold.

the contents of a carton.

a cardboardlike substance consisting of chewed plant material often mixed with soil, made by certain insects for building nests.

verb (used with object)

to pack in a carton: to carton eggs for supermarket sales.

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verb (used without object)

to make or form cardboard sheets into cartons.

Origin:
1780–90; < French < Italian cartone pasteboard; see cartoon

Related forms

un·car·toned, adjective

Can be confused: carton, cartoon.

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carton (ˈkɑːt^ən)

—n
1.	a cardboard box for containing goods
2.	a container of waxed paper or plastic in which liquids, such as milk, are sold
3.	shooting
	a. a white disc at the centre of a target
	b. a shot that hits this disc

—vb
4.	to enclose (goods) in a carton

[C19: from French, from Italian cartone pasteboard, from cartacard¹]

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carton

1816, from Fr. carton "pasteboard," from It. cartone "pasteboard," augmentive of M.L. carta "paper" (see card (n.)). Originally the material for making paper boxes; extended 1906 to the boxes themselves.

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