Carte vs Caret - What's the difference?
carte | caret |
As nouns the difference between carte and caret is that carte is a bill of fare; a menu while caret is a mark: ⟨ ⟩ used by writers and proof readers to indicate that something is to be inserted in the place marked by the caret or caret can be a kind of turtle, the hawksbill.
carte English
Noun
( en noun)
A bill of fare; a menu.
(dated) A visiting card.
* 1869 , Emma Jane Worboise, The fortunes of Cyril Denham (page 258)
- "He only says she is Laura Somerset, and he sends me her carte ; here it is."
( Webster 1913)
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caret English
Etymology 1
From the (etyl) .
Noun
( en noun)
A mark: ? ? used by writers and proof readers to indicate that something is to be inserted in the place marked by the caret.
(graphical user interface) An indicator, often a blinking line or bar, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place. Also called a cursor.
(non-standard) A .
* 1944 , Maro Beath Jones, Inclusive Uniform Alphabet for Russian, Bulgarian, Serb-Croatian, Czech, Polish'' (''Claremont Slavic Series , ), page 10
- […] the more conventional semivocalic j and the caret (?) respectively.
* 1948 , Bohumil Emil Mikula, Progressive Czech (Bohemian) (: Czechoslovak National Council of America), 6
- The caret' (?), '''há?ek''', is used over the following consonants: '''c''', '''d''', '''n''', '''t''', '''r''', '''s''', and '''z''' to indicate the soft sound. The '''caret''' (?) is also used over the vowel ' e (See Pronunciation II, b, p, v).
* 1991 , Michael Shapiro, The Sense of Change: Language as History (; ISBN 0253352037, 9780253352033), page 58
- In contemporary Czech, the “hook” or caret' is no longer in use for lower-case ''t'' and ''d'' when the latter are palatal; instead, an apostrophe is used (''t’'', ''d’'') This development is clearly connected with the practical difficulty encountered in printing a ' caret over letter stems that are too thin.
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Etymology 2
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