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Craton vs Crayon - What's the difference?

craton | crayon |

As nouns the difference between craton and crayon

is that craton is a part of the earth’s crust that has survived the splitting and merging of continents while crayon is a stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.

As a verb crayon is

to draw with a crayon.

craton

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia craton)
  • A part of the Earth’s crust that has survived the splitting and merging of continents.

    • Anagrams

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    crayon

    English

    (wikipedia crayon)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
  • * Dryden
    • Let no day pass over you without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon .
  • (dated) A crayon drawing.
  • * 1885 , Littell's Living Age (volume 167, page 187)
    • But on the wall hung two fine crayons , representing Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette — pictures which she recognized as having hung in the corridor of the Tuileries — and in front of them were burning two candles on a species of rude altar.
  • (dated) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To draw with a crayon.
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