cartoon

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: car=toon

CIDE DICTIONARY

cartoon, n. [F. carton (cf. It. cartone pasteboard, cartoon); fr. L. charta. See 1st card.].

•  A design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; -- used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of Raphael.  [1913 Webster]
•  A large pictorial sketch, as in a journal or magazine; esp. a pictorial caricature; as, the cartoons of “Puck.”  [1913 Webster]
•  same as comic strip.  [PJC]
•  a motion picture consisting of a series of frames, each being a photograph of a drawing rather than a frame produced by filming a scene of true action, and in which the objects are displaced slightly in succeeding frames so as to give the appearance of motion when projected as a motion picture on the screen. The types of characters portrayed in such films are often similar or identical to those in a comic strip.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

cartoon, n. & v.
--n.
1 a humorous drawing in a newspaper, magazine, etc., esp. as a topical comment.
2 a sequence of drawings, often with speech indicated, telling a story (strip cartoon).
3 a filmed sequence of drawings using the technique of animation.
4 a full-size drawing on stout paper as an artist's preliminary design for a painting, tapestry, mosaic, etc.
--v.
1 tr. draw a cartoon of.
2 intr. draw cartoons.

Derivative

cartoonist n.

Etymology

It. cartone f. carta CARD(1)

THESAURUS

cartoon

3-D, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Technicolor, Western, animated cartoon, black and white, black-and-white film, blueprint, brouillon, caricature, charcoal, charcoal drawing, chart, chiaroscuro, chiller, cinema, color film, comic book, comic strip, comics, copy, crayon, creepie, delineation, design, diagram, documentary, documentary film, doodle, draft, drawing, ebauche, educational film, elevation, esquisse, feature, figure, film, flick, flicker, funnies, graph, ground plan, horror picture, horse opera, house plan, ichnography, line drawing, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, newsreel, nudie, outline, pastel, pattern, pen-and-ink, pencil drawing, photodrama, photoplay, picture, picture show, plot, pornographic film, preview, profile, projection, rough, rough copy, rough draft, rough outline, short, silent, silent film, silhouette, silver-print drawing, sinopia, skeleton, sketch, skin flick, sneak preview, spaghetti Western, study, table, talkie, talking picture, thriller, tracing, trailer, underground film, vignette, working drawing

ROGET THESAURUS

cartoon

Painting

N painting, depicting, drawing, design, perspective, sciagraphy, skiagraphy, chiaroscuro, composition, treatment, historical painting, portrait painting, miniature painting, landscape painting, marine painting, still life, flower painting, scene painting, scenography, school, style, the grand style, high art, genre, portraiture, ornamental art, monochrome, polychrome, grisaille, pallet, palette, easel, brush, pencil, stump, black lead, charcoal, crayons, chalk, pastel, paint, watercolor, body color, oil color, oils, oil paint, varnish, priming, gouache, tempera, distemper, fresco, water glass, enamel, encaustic painting, mosaic, tapestry, photography, heliography, color photography, sun painting, graphics, computer graphics, picture, painting, piece, tableau, canvas, oil painting, fresco, cartoon, easel picture, cabinet picture, draught, draft, pencil drawing, water color drawing, etching, charcoal, pen-and-ink, sketch, outline, study, photograph, color photograph, black-and-white photograph, holograph, heliograph, daguerreotype, talbotype, calotype, heliotype, negative, positive, print, glossy print, matte print, enlargement, reduction, life-size print, instant photo, Polaroid photo, technicolor, Kodachrome, Ektachrome, Polaroid, portrait, whole length, full length, half length, kitcat, head, miniature, shade, silhouette, profile, landscape, seapiece, view, scene, prospect, panorama, diorama, still life, picture gallery, exhibit, studio, atelier, pinacotheca, painted, pictorial, graphic, picturesque, pencil, oil, in pencil, fecit, delineavit, mutum est pictura poema.