Carrot
noun
A plant with an orange, edible root.
She added some carrots to the soup.
Often appears as...
- eat a carrot
- chop a carrot
noun
A prize or reward offered for a specific action as a motivation.
The promise of a bonus was a carrot to motivate the employees.
Often appears as...
- dangle a carrot
- carrot and stick
Usage tips
Idiomatic
noun
A plant with an orange, edible root.
She added some carrots to the soup.
Often appears as...
- eat a carrot
- chop a carrot
noun
A prize or reward offered for a specific action as a motivation.
The promise of a bonus was a carrot to motivate the employees.
Often appears as...
- dangle a carrot
- carrot and stick
Usage tips
Idiomatic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Edible Part
Carrot usually refers to the orange part that grows underground and is eaten.
Rabbits love munching on carrots.
Pro Tip 2/3Nutrition Theme
'Carrot' is often mentioned in the context of a healthy diet and nutrition.
Eating carrots contributes to good eyesight.
Pro Tip 3/3Color Reference
The word 'carrot' can be used to describe the vegetable's distinctive bright orange color.
Her hair was the color of a carrot.
Pro Tip 1/3Edible Part
Carrot usually refers to the orange part that grows underground and is eaten.
Rabbits love munching on carrots.
Pro Tip 2/3Nutrition Theme
'Carrot' is often mentioned in the context of a healthy diet and nutrition.
Eating carrots contributes to good eyesight.
Pro Tip 3/3Color Reference
The word 'carrot' can be used to describe the vegetable's distinctive bright orange color.
Her hair was the color of a carrot.
Pro Tip 1/3Edible Part
Carrot usually refers to the orange part that grows underground and is eaten.
Rabbits love munching on carrots.
Pro Tip 2/3Nutrition Theme
'Carrot' is often mentioned in the context of a healthy diet and nutrition.
Eating carrots contributes to good eyesight.
Pro Tip 3/3Color Reference
The word 'carrot' can be used to describe the vegetable's distinctive bright orange color.
Her hair was the color of a carrot.
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Why Do Gorillas Have...
cultivated for our palette like the ones we have here so if you're in a zoo environment you're probably not going to give them much fruit at all they would love it but it's sort of like giving them chocolate really it's very high in sugar and they probably won't eat anything else so the sweetest things we give them tend to be root vegetables so sweet potato carrots
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The puzzle of motivation...
between what science knows and what business does. What's alarming here is that our business operating system -- think of the set of assumptions and protocols beneath our businesses, how we motivate people, how we apply our human resources-- it's built entirely around these extrinsic motivators, around carrots and sticks.
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David Deutsch: A new way...
But the more important one is explanationless theories. Whenever you're told that some existing statistical trend will continue but you aren't given a hard-to-vary account of what causes that trend, you're being told a wizard did it. When you are told that carrots have human rights
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What we learn before...
pregnant women eats find their way into the amniotic fluid which is continuously swallowed by the fetus babies seem to remember and prefer these tastes once they're out in the world in one experiment a group of pregnant women was asked to drink a lot of carrot juice
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Jay Silver: Hack a...
And I love the carrot on the turntable. Most people cannot play them that way. And when this started to get serious, I thought, I'd better put a really serious warning label on the box that this comes in, because otherwise people are going to be getting this
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Tristram Stuart: The...
'Cause basically there are issues, but they are fresh and very tasty. All these carrots are not suitable for supermarkets, wrong size, wrong shape. So just highlighting the unnecessary waste of food here today. Getting people to help bag stuff up,
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The reality constructed...
then I go somewhere else in the city and then there's a guy with a little gizmo which is cutting potato peels and carrots and things and the group of people around him and he's saying how you can make healthy life and is
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Annie Murphy Paul: What...
once they're out in the world. In one experiment, a group of pregnant women was asked to drink a lot of carrot juice during their third trimester of pregnancy, while another group of pregnant women drank only water.
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How Do You Become Santa...
attitude santa jerry has fun in life so I'm sure he has fun being Santa yeah baby he's uh he's a carrot you leave your ego in the sleigh so everyone is more heart centered and they offer their
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Joseph Nye on global...
and much misunderstood, and yet it's tremendously important. Indeed, if you can learn to use more soft power, you can save a lot on carrots and sticks.
Video examples
Why Do Gorillas Have...
cultivated for our palette like the ones we have here so if you're in a zoo environment you're probably not going to give them much fruit at all they would love it but it's sort of like giving them chocolate really it's very high in sugar and they probably won't eat anything else so the sweetest things we give them tend to be root vegetables so sweet potato carrots
Video examples
The puzzle of motivation...
between what science knows and what business does. What's alarming here is that our business operating system -- think of the set of assumptions and protocols beneath our businesses, how we motivate people, how we apply our human resources-- it's built entirely around these extrinsic motivators, around carrots and sticks.
Video examples
David Deutsch: A new way...
But the more important one is explanationless theories. Whenever you're told that some existing statistical trend will continue but you aren't given a hard-to-vary account of what causes that trend, you're being told a wizard did it. When you are told that carrots have human rights
Video examples
What we learn before...
pregnant women eats find their way into the amniotic fluid which is continuously swallowed by the fetus babies seem to remember and prefer these tastes once they're out in the world in one experiment a group of pregnant women was asked to drink a lot of carrot juice
Video examples
Jay Silver: Hack a...
And I love the carrot on the turntable. Most people cannot play them that way. And when this started to get serious, I thought, I'd better put a really serious warning label on the box that this comes in, because otherwise people are going to be getting this
Video examples
Tristram Stuart: The...
'Cause basically there are issues, but they are fresh and very tasty. All these carrots are not suitable for supermarkets, wrong size, wrong shape. So just highlighting the unnecessary waste of food here today. Getting people to help bag stuff up,
Video examples
The reality constructed...
then I go somewhere else in the city and then there's a guy with a little gizmo which is cutting potato peels and carrots and things and the group of people around him and he's saying how you can make healthy life and is
Video examples
Annie Murphy Paul: What...
once they're out in the world. In one experiment, a group of pregnant women was asked to drink a lot of carrot juice during their third trimester of pregnancy, while another group of pregnant women drank only water.
Video examples
How Do You Become Santa...
attitude santa jerry has fun in life so I'm sure he has fun being Santa yeah baby he's uh he's a carrot you leave your ego in the sleigh so everyone is more heart centered and they offer their
Video examples
Joseph Nye on global...
and much misunderstood, and yet it's tremendously important. Indeed, if you can learn to use more soft power, you can save a lot on carrots and sticks.
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Roman Abramovich
Russian Businessman
To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: one eats carrots, one eats candy, both taste good. As a child you cannot tell the difference.
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Melissa Etheridge
American Musician
I think I've been on a path ever since I was born, a path of high stress. I put myself, my career, it was a big old juicy carrot right in front of me for all of my life.
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John Stockton
American Athlete
My brother thundered me in everything most of my life. He was a great carrot out in front of me. All I wanted to do, ever, was beat him at anything.
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Mae West
American Actress
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
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Paul Cezanne
French Artist
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Ian Brown
English Musician
We should be growing carrots up the side of the Empire State Building or Big Ben.
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Mitch Hedberg
American Comedian
If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be messed-up.
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Tonya Harding
American Athlete
Some people, if you eat a carrot, you're killing it.
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Adam McKay
American Writer
Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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John Bolton
American Statesman
I don't do carrots.
Quote examples
Roman Abramovich
Russian Businessman
To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: one eats carrots, one eats candy, both taste good. As a child you cannot tell the difference.
Quote examples
Melissa Etheridge
American Musician
I think I've been on a path ever since I was born, a path of high stress. I put myself, my career, it was a big old juicy carrot right in front of me for all of my life.
Quote examples
John Stockton
American Athlete
My brother thundered me in everything most of my life. He was a great carrot out in front of me. All I wanted to do, ever, was beat him at anything.
Quote examples
Mae West
American Actress
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
Quote examples
Paul Cezanne
French Artist
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
Quote examples
Ian Brown
English Musician
We should be growing carrots up the side of the Empire State Building or Big Ben.
Quote examples
Mitch Hedberg
American Comedian
If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be messed-up.
Quote examples
Tonya Harding
American Athlete
Some people, if you eat a carrot, you're killing it.
Quote examples
Adam McKay
American Writer
Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
Quote examples
John Bolton
American Statesman
I don't do carrots.
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