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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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"The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old- fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom. In terms of pollution, noise and human life, the price of that freedom may be high, but perhaps the car, by the very muddle and confusion it causes, may be holding back the remorseless spread of the regimented, electronic society."

-J.G. Ballard

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