cartoon

Pluralcartoons

Formscartoons, cartooning, cartooned

1. 1
   nouncountable

   A movie or short film made with drawings or computer images that move.

   Like a picture book where the pictures move and talk.

   The kids watched a funny cartoon before dinner.

   That cartoon about a singing crab made the whole class laugh.

   Similaranimation

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2. 2
   nouncountable

   A funny drawing in a newspaper or magazine, sometimes with words under it.

   She laughed at a cartoon about a dog driving a car.

   He cut out his favorite cartoon and put it on the fridge.

   Similarcomic

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3. 3
   nouncountable

   A TV show with moving drawings that has many episodes.

   Her favorite cartoon comes on every Saturday morning.

   That cartoon has more than two hundred episodes now.

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4. 4
   nouncountable

   A drawing that makes fun of famous people like politicians, often in a newspaper.

   The newspaper printed a cartoon making fun of the mayor.

   She drew a cartoon that poked fun at two famous singers.

   Similarcaricature, lampoon

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   nouncountable

   A full-size drawing that artists use as a guide for a wall painting or a large woven picture.

   Like a paper pattern you pin to cloth before you cut and sew.

   The artist taped the cartoon to the wall before starting to paint.

   Workers followed the cartoon line by line as they wove the picture into the cloth.

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   nouncountable

   A quick first drawing that an artist makes before starting the real work.

   The painter made a small cartoon before starting the big picture.

   Her notebook is full of cartoons for paintings she plans to make.

   Similarsketch, study, draft

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7. 7
   verbintransitive

   To draw funny pictures, especially for a newspaper or magazine.

   He learned to cartoon by copying drawings from the newspaper.

   She cartoons for the school paper every week.

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8. 8
   verbtransitive

   To make a quick first drawing before starting the finished artwork.

   Painters often cartoon a design on paper first.

   She cartooned the figures lightly before painting over them.

   Similarsketch, outline

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   nouncountable

   A simple drawing that shows how a scientific idea works.

   The teacher drew a cartoon to show how blood moves through the heart.

   This cartoon in our science book makes the water cycle easy to understand.

   Similardiagram, schematic, sketch

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