Meaning of carton | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An inexpensive, disposable box-like container fashioned from either paper, paper with wax-covering (wax paper), or other lightweight material.
   countable, uncountable
2. An inexpensive, disposable box-like container fashioned from either paper, paper with wax-covering (wax paper), or other lightweight material
3. A surname.
4. To place (something) in a carton.
5. A pack of cigarettes, usually ten, wrapped in cellophane or packed in a light cardboard box.
   countable, uncountable
6. A pack of cigarettes, usually ten, wrapped in cellophane or packed in a light cardboard box
7. a cardboard or plastic container. orange juice sold in cartons. boksie; kartonhouertjie عُلْبَةُ كَرْتون картонена кутия caixa krabice der Karton karton χάρτινη ή πλαστική συσκευασία (πχ. για γάλα) bote, cartón, caja pakk, kartong, kanister کارتن؛ جعبه مقوایی tölkki carton מֵיכָל קַרטוֹן गत्ते का डिब्बा kutija doboz, karton karton kassi, askja, (mjólkurhyrna, ferna cartone, scatola di cartone 箱 풍자만화 pakelis, kartoninė dėžutė kartona kārba karton kartonnen doos, plastic doos kartong, eskekarto...
8. A cardboard box that holds (usually 24) beer bottles or cans.
   Australia, countable, uncountable
9. A cardboard box that holds (usually 24) beer bottles or cans
10. Any of various containers made from cardboard or coated paper: cans packed in cartons; a milk carton.
11. A kind of thin pasteboard.
    archaic, countable, uncountable
12. A kind of thin pasteboard
13. The contents of a carton: dyed the whole carton of eggs.
14. A small disc within the bullseye of a target.
    archaic, countable, uncountable
15. A small disc within the bullseye of a target
16. a cardboard box for containing goods
17. A shot that strikes this disc.
    archaic, countable, uncountable
18. a container of waxed paper or plastic in which liquids, such as milk, are sold
19. (Archery) shooting a. a white disc at the centre of a target
    shooting
20. (Shooting) shooting a. a white disc at the centre of a target
    shooting
21. (Commerce) to enclose (goods) in a carton
22. a cardboard or plastic box used typically for storage or shipping.

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Examples

“a carton of milk or eggs”

“Mr Yunupingu was referred to the clinic where I was working at that time, Northside Clinic, for treatment of his alcohol problem. I think he described drinking between one and four cartons every single day - it's quite a phenomenal amount.”

“The more business he got, the greater his power seemed to grow of getting at its pith and marrow; and however late at night he sat carousing with Sydney Carton, he always had his points at his fingers' ends in the morning.”

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