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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
carton
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
carton of...juice
▪ a carton of orange juice
milk carton (=a plastic or cardboard container in which milk is sold)
▪ containers such as milk cartons and soap powder boxes
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
milk
▪ I get the milk carton from the window and pour it over my cornflakes.
▪ By May 1, twenty little tomato plants in sawed-off milk cartons had taken over the kitchen dinette.
▪ In the scullery I found a note propped against a milk carton on the draining-board.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Amid all the dust and the commerce we come upon a guy stationed at a cardboard carton desk.
▪ As he straightened up he seemed to have left his heart on the floor with the empty ice-cream carton.
▪ Could you pick up a carton of Trues?
▪ He feels sadness in objects, in warehouse cartons and blood-soaked clothes.
▪ I get the milk carton from the window and pour it over my cornflakes.
▪ Seen the Camel ad witha guy racing to his shelter as a meteorite approaches, grasping nothing but his cigarette carton?
▪ The petrol stove was roaring under a steaming kettle, sheltered by three sides of an unfolded carton.
▪ There's a lump of ice floating in the carton.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carton

Carton \Car"ton\ (k[aum]r"t[o^]n), n. [F. See Cartoon.] Pasteboard for paper boxes; also, a pasteboard box.

Carton pierre, a species of papier-mach['e], imitating stone or bronze sculpture.
--Knight.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
carton

1816, from French carton "pasteboard" (17c.), from Italian cartone "pasteboard," augmentative of Medieval Latin carta "paper" (see card (n.)). Originally the material for making paper boxes; extended 1906 to the boxes themselves. As a verb, from 1921.

Wiktionary
carton

n. An inexpensive, disposable box-like creation fashioned from either paper, paper with wax-covering (wax paper), or other lightweight material. It is designed to hold things for a short period of time and be discarded or recycle after use.

WordNet
carton

  1. n. the quantity contained in a carton [syn: cartonful]

  2. a box made of cardboard; opens by flaps on top

Wikipedia
Carton

A carton is a box or container usually made of paperboard and sometimes of corrugated fiberboard. Many types of cartons are used in packaging. Sometimes a carton is also called a box.

Carton (surname)

Carton is the surname of:

People:

  • Craig Carton (born 1969), American radio personality
  • Davy Carton (born 1959), Irish singer, songwriter and rhythm guitarist
  • Gordon Carton (born 1921), Canadian former politician
  • Michael Carton (born 1984), Irish hurler
  • Noel Carton (born 1981), Irish hurling goalkeeper
  • Paul Carton (1875–1947), French physician
  • Pauline Carton (1884–1974), French film actress
  • Peadar Carton, Irish hurler
  • Raoul Carton , French philosopher
  • Rick Carton, self-taught book illustrator
  • Victor Carton (1902–1970), Irish politician

Fictional characters:

  • Sydney Carton, hero of Charles Dickens' novel A Tale of Two Cities
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Usage examples of "carton".

The clothespress held not only his clothing but more cartons of souvenirs.

I imagined her decoupaging orange crates, making clever hanging ornaments out of egg cartons festooned with plastic sprigs of lily of the valley.

George opened the great doors and let the driver lead his horses to the rear of the warehouse, near the blue square, where Artemius and the driver stacked the cartons on the floor.

He walked to one of the cartons, pulled out a dustrag, shook it clean over the box, and handed it to her.

She had taken out a carton of milk and a packet of gingersnaps and was dipping each cookie into the milk before she took a bite.

Breit kept his eyes fixed on Luis for several moments, long enough to tug a cigarette from the little carton, pulling his eyes away only to match his lighter flame to the tip.

Doyak screamed madly as the third trooper threw a paperboard carton of lime colored cubes at his head.

This meeting place between Man and Alien might have been set down prepacked in this desert valley, clipped off the back of a cereal carton.

Thus, this evidence does not connect Oswald with the source of the shots and is meaningless, because Oswald normally handled such cartons in the building as part of his work.

Shirtless young men were tossing cartons of Spam and tins of ammunition from hand to hand up the beach to one of the bungalows that had been turned into a depot.

Tun Goldhorn guided the Coors beer truck to a stop near the store, and while cartons of six-packs, tallboys, and quintos were going into the Rael coolers, along came the Trailways bus.

She looked angry enough to crack open the house like an egg carton and spill the twins out and smash them.

Here and there he paused to set something aside, to study a page, or a picture, crumpled with the rest till the carton was full and he carried it in to the hearth, down digging for matches, heaping the empty grate, pulling the wing chair closer as the blaze came up, sitting there with the notebook unopened on his lap.

Warren was deciding it was time for a drink, and we stood for a while in the fine warm night near one of the bars drinking Bacardi and Coke out of throwaway cartons.

Shadow stood bemused in a weak cyclone of detritus you know the way trash has in cities of playing ring-a-roses for helpless hours in a pocket of wind: food cartons, snout packs, beercans, all in their afterlife of headless chickens.