单词 | cartoon |
释义 | cartooncar‧toon /kɑːˈtuːn $ kɑːr-/ ●●○ S3 noun [countable] ![]() ![]() WORD ORIGINcartoon ExamplesOrigin: 1500-1600 Italian cartone ‘pasteboard, cartoon’, from carta; ➔ CARD1EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Thesaurus
THESAURUS► drawing Collocations a picture drawn with a pencil, pen, crayon etc: · I did a drawing of the front of the house. ► sketch a drawing that is done quickly and has few details: · When she was traveling, she drew quick sketches of the places she’d seen. ► doodle a shape or pattern that you draw when you are bored or thinking about other things: · His schoolbooks were always covered in doodles. ► graffiti drawings or writing that people secretly put on walls or other public places: · Vandals had covered the station in graffiti. ► comic strip a series of pictures drawn inside boxes that tell a story, especially in a newspaper or magazine: · Asterix started off in a comic strip. ► cartoon a funny drawing in a newspaper or magazine: · There is a 'New Yorker' cartoon which depicts various inventions for keeping warm. ► picture shapes, lines etc painted or drawn on a surface, especially as a piece of art, and often showing what someone or something looks like: · a picture of a horse· He painted the picture in 1890, just before he died. ► drawing a picture drawn with a pencil, pen etc: · We had to do a drawing of a sunflower. ► sketch a picture that is drawn quickly: · I made a quick sketch of the kind of room we wanted. ► painting a picture made using paint: · The painting now hangs in the Museum of Modern Art.· Picasso did several paintings of her. ► portrait a picture of a person: · The portrait was painted by Rembrandt. ► landscape a picture of a place, especially in the countryside or the mountains: · Constable painted mainly landscapes. ► cartoon a funny drawing in a newspaper or magazine that tells a story or a joke: · A cartoon in the New York Times showed the president talking to Osama Bin Laden. ► comic strip a series of pictures drawn inside boxes that tell a story: · Charles Schultz was famous for his cartoon strip about Snoopy and Charlie Brown. ► caricature a funny drawing of someone that makes a part of someone’s face or body look bigger, worse etc than it really is, especially in a funny way: · He is famous for his caricatures of politicians. ► illustration a picture in a book: · The book has over 100 pages of illustrations, most of them in colour. ► poster a large picture printed on paper that you stick to a wall as decoration: · old movie posters· There were lots of posters of pop bands on her bedroom wall. ► print a picture that is usually produced on a printing press, and is one of a series of copies of the same picture: · a limited edition of lithographic prints by John Lennon ► image a picture – used especially when talking about what the picture is like, or the effect it has on you: · He produced some memorable images.· a beautiful image· Some of the images are deeply disturbing. ► artwork pictures or photographs, especially ones that have been produced to be used in a book or magazine: · We are still waiting for the artwork to come back from the printers. Longman Language Activatortypes of film► horror film/horror movie a film that is intended to make you feel frightened, for example one in which people get attacked by strange creatures, or in which dead people come to life ► slasher film/slasher movie informal a film that is intended to make you feel frightened, in which people are suddenly violently attacked and killed ► comedy a film that is intended to make you laugh and usually has a happy ending ► science fiction film/science fiction movie a film about life in the future, often with people or creatures who live in other parts of the universe ► thriller a film that tells an exciting story about murder or crime ► western a film about cowboys and life in the 19th century in the American West ► war film/war movie a film about people fighting a war ► action film/action movie a film that has a lot of exciting events in it, for example people fighting or chasing each other in cars ► road movie a film about people who are on a long journey in a car, and the adventures they have while they are travelling ► romantic comedy a film that is intended to make you laugh, about two people who meet and have a romantic relationship ► cartoon/animated film/animated movie a film made using photographs of models or drawings, which are put together to look as if they are moving ► epic a long film in which a lot of things happen, for example one about a period in history or the whole of someone's life a humorous drawing► cartoon a humorous drawing, especially in a newspaper or a magazine, often with a joke written under it: · The cartoon shows a group of elephants trying to get into a phone-box.· a satirical cartoon that appears in the Washington Post ► caricature a humorous drawing that makes certain parts of people's faces or bodies seem larger or stranger than they really are, in order to make them look funny: · We had our caricatures drawn by a street artist while we were on vacation in Turkey.caricature of: · Politicians are used to having caricatures of themselves printed in newspapers. WORD SETS► Filmanimation, nounanimator, nounart director, nounart house, nounarts cinema, nounbiopic, nounblue movie, nounB-movie, nouncameo, nouncameraman, nouncartoon, nouncine-, adjectivecine-camera, nouncine-film, nouncinema, nouncinematic, adjectivecinematography, nounclip, nouncontinuity, nouncut, nouncutting room, noundirection, noundouble, noundouble bill, noundouble feature, nounepilogue, nounextra, nounfantasy, nounfarce, nounfeature, nounfeature film, nounfilm star, nounfilmstrip, nounflashback, nounflick, nounfootage, nounfreeze-frame, noungaffer, nounHollywood, home movie, nounhorror movie, nounimage, nounimagery, nounlip-synch, verblocation, nounlot, nounmatinée, nounmiscast, verbmotion picture, nounmovie, nounmoviegoer, nounmovie star, nounmovie theater, nounmoving picture, nounmultiplex, nounmusical, nounnarrator, nounnewsreel, nounoff-screen, adverbopening night, nounOscar, nounout-take, nounPG, nounpremiere, nounproject, verbprojection, nounprojectionist, nounprojector, nounprop, nounrating, nounreel, nounrelease, verbremake, nounremake, verbre-release, verbrerun, nounretake, nounrole, nounscreen, nounscreen, verbscreening, nounscreenplay, nounscreen test, nounscreenwriter, nounscriptwriter, nounset, nounshort, nounshot, nounshow, verbsilent, adjectiveslow motion, nounsoundtrack, nounspaghetti western, nounsplicer, nounsplit screen, nounstand-in, nounstill, nounstudio, nounstunt man, nounstunt woman, nountalkie, nountearjerker, nounTechnicolor, nountheatre, nountheme, noun3-D, adjectivetop-grossing, adjectivetrailer, nountravelogue, nounturkey, nounwestern, nounwhodunit, nounX, nounX-certificate, adjectiveX-rated, adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a television/movie/cartoon character Phrases· Who’s your favourite television character? COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► editorial· A recent editorial cartoon by Tom Toles caught the irony in all of this. NOUN► character· Inside the Odeon, on both sides of the screen, up the soaring walls, ran a frieze of cartoon characters.· Studio stores where you can find classy designs with cartoon characters.· Later we became our favourite cartoon characters.· Fletcher Reede is a cartoon character with real heart.· Junior Cox, an apple- faced cartoon character, appears in adventures in the comic inside the box.· The cartoon character he was named after was cuter.· Daniel Oates has invented a repertoire of three-dimensional cartoon characters to populate his work.· Who knew, until this week, that you were a cartoon character of ridicule? ► strip· I'd spent the afternoon doing a strip cartoon of him.· Few of these strip cartoons were actually comic.· He was in Radio Times as a strip cartoon for eight years and his portrait has hung in the Royal Academy.· Study 5 involved a collaborative problem-solving task in which children ordered, in sequence, the segments of strip cartoon stories. VERB► animate· Application Discuss animated cartoons with your students.· Give them the following information: Every time you see an animated cartoon you are seeing a series of pictures. ► draw· These must be done with swift strokes, as if you were drawing a cartoon rather than painting in oil.· The boy drew cartoon images of a courtroom sketch artist and a reporter Wednesday while Easton made plans for his psychiatric evaluation. ► watch· In one, the children watch cartoon videos.· While you are waiting for your private audience with the king of the Magic Kingdom you can watch vintage cartoons.· We allow ourselves to let our minds go when we watch cartoons or puppetry or even the theater. PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► animated cartoon/film/feature etc 1a short film that is made by photographing a series of drawings:
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