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car⋅ton
[kahr-tn] 
tn
–noun
| 1. | a cardboard or plastic box used typically for storage or shipping. |
| 2. | the amount a carton can hold. |
| 3. | the contents of a carton. |
| 4. | a cardboardlike substance consisting of chewed plant material often mixed with soil, made by certain insects for building nests. |
–verb (used with object)
| 5. | to pack in a carton: to carton eggs for supermarket sales. |
–verb (used without object)
| 6. | to make or form cardboard sheets into cartons. |
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| car·ton (kär'tn) n.
To place (something) in a carton. [French, from Italian cartone, pasteboard, augmentative of carta, card, paper, from Latin charta, carta, paper made from papyrus; see card1.] |
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Carton
Car"ton\ (k[aum]r"t[o^]n), n. [F. See Cartoon.] Pasteboard for paper boxes; also, a pasteboard box. Carton pierre, a species of papier-mach['e], imitating stone or bronze sculpture. --Knight.
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Language Translation for : carton
Spanish:
bote, cartón, caja,
German:
der Karton,
Japanese:
箱
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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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