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Hamper vs Cartoon - What's the difference?

hamper | cartoon |

As nouns the difference between hamper and cartoon

is that hamper is a large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals; as, or hamper can be a shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes while cartoon is cartoon (comic strip).

As a verb hamper

is to put into a hamper or hamper can be to put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle; to ensnare; to inveigle; hence, to impede in motion or progress; to embarrass; to encumber.

hamper

English

(wikipedia hamper)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) hamper, contracted from hanaper, hanypere, from (etyl) hanaper, (etyl) hanapier, .

Alternative forms

* (l)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals; as,
  • * a hamper of wine
  • * a clothes hamper
  • * an oyster hamper , which contains two bushels
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put into a hamper.
  • ''Competition pigeons are hampered for the truck trip to the point of release where the race back starts

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) hamperen, . More at (l).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle; to ensnare; to inveigle; hence, to impede in motion or progress; to embarrass; to encumber.
  • * Blackmore:
  • Hampered nerves.
  • * :
  • A lion hampered in a net.
  • * :
  • They hamper and entangle our souls.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
  • (nautical) Articles]] [[ordinary, ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.
  • Derived terms
    * Top hamper , (Nautical): unnecessary spars and rigging kept aloft.

    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

    Verb

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

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