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Cantoon vs Cartoon - What's the difference?

cantoon | cartoon |

As nouns the difference between cantoon and cartoon

is that cantoon is a cotton material with a fine cord on one side and a satiny surface on the other while cartoon is a humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings.

As a verb cartoon is

to draw a cartoon.

cantoon

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A cotton material with a fine cord on one side and a satiny surface on the other.
    • (Webster 1913)

    cartoon

    English

    (wikipedia cartoon)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (comics) A humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings.
  • (comics) A drawing satirising current public figures.
  • (arts) An artist's preliminary sketch.
  • (animation) An animated piece of film which is often but not exclusively humorous.
  • * 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
    • The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon , lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
  • A diagram in a scientific concept.

    • Synonyms

    * (humorous drawing or strip) comic strip, strip cartoon * (satire of public figures) caricature, political cartoon

    Related terms

    * cartoonist * comic book * funnies * funny papers * funny pages * strip cartoon

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (arts, comics, animation) To draw a cartoon.

    • Anagrams

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