Carton
noun
A box made from thick, stiff paper or thin plastic, often used for holding small things.
Can you put the milk back in the carton, please?
Often appears as...
- milk carton
- carton of cigarettes
noun
A type of paper or cardboard used for making boxes or containers.
The packaging is made from recycled carton.
Often appears as...
- carton packaging
- recycled carton
noun
A preliminary design or sketch, especially one drawn on cardboard.
The artist drew a carton before starting the mural.
Often appears as...
- carton sketch
- preliminary carton
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Artistic
noun
A box made from thick, stiff paper or thin plastic, often used for holding small things.
Can you put the milk back in the carton, please?
Often appears as...
- milk carton
- carton of cigarettes
noun
A type of paper or cardboard used for making boxes or containers.
The packaging is made from recycled carton.
Often appears as...
- carton packaging
- recycled carton
noun
A preliminary design or sketch, especially one drawn on cardboard.
The artist drew a carton before starting the mural.
Often appears as...
- carton sketch
- preliminary carton
Usage tips
Artistic
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Pro Tip 1/3Common packaging
Carton is commonly used to package food items that need to be sealed, like milk or juice.
She picked up a carton of orange juice from the fridge.
Pro Tip 2/3Environmental aspect
Cartons are often mentioned in conversations about recycling and environmental friendliness.
Make sure to flatten the carton before putting it in the recycling bin.
Pro Tip 3/3Storage convenience
Cartons are stackable and save space, which makes them handy for storing items efficiently.
We stacked the milk cartons neatly in the storeroom.
Pro Tip 1/3Common packaging
Carton is commonly used to package food items that need to be sealed, like milk or juice.
She picked up a carton of orange juice from the fridge.
Pro Tip 2/3Environmental aspect
Cartons are often mentioned in conversations about recycling and environmental friendliness.
Make sure to flatten the carton before putting it in the recycling bin.
Pro Tip 3/3Storage convenience
Cartons are stackable and save space, which makes them handy for storing items efficiently.
We stacked the milk cartons neatly in the storeroom.
Pro Tip 1/3Common packaging
Carton is commonly used to package food items that need to be sealed, like milk or juice.
She picked up a carton of orange juice from the fridge.
Pro Tip 2/3Environmental aspect
Cartons are often mentioned in conversations about recycling and environmental friendliness.
Make sure to flatten the carton before putting it in the recycling bin.
Pro Tip 3/3Storage convenience
Cartons are stackable and save space, which makes them handy for storing items efficiently.
We stacked the milk cartons neatly in the storeroom.
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Teach every child about...
that if they make toffee apples they'll eat more as well. Do you know what I mean? For me, there isn't any need to flavor the milk. Okay? There's sugar in everything. I know the ins and outs of those ingredients. It's in everything. Even the milk hasn't escaped the kind of modern-day problems. There's our milk. There's our carton.
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The race to decode a...
Working from the few available inscriptions, she recorded how often each symbol appeared. Then she recorded how frequently each symbol appeared next to another. She stored her findings on scrap paper in cigarette cartons because writing supplies were scarce during the Second World War. By analyzing these frequencies,
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Jarrett J. Krosoczka:...
And kids made the most amazing projects. I knew they would. Kids made hamburger cards that were made out of construction paper. They took photos of their lunch lady's head and plastered it onto my cartoon lunch lady and fixed that to a milk carton and presented them with flowers. And they made their own comics,
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Transforming transport...
drive from their house one block down to pick up a carton of eggs this also reduces greenhouse gases so these communities have better air less congestion and a lot more livable space so car sharing today works really great for these communities and for people
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What baby boomers can...
One of the paradoxes of our time is that baby boomers are more vibrant and healthy longer into life, we're actually working later into life, and yet we're feeling less and less relevant. Some of us feel like a carton of milk -- an old carton of milk --
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Paul Bennett: Design is...
Why do we line up the square milk carton with the square fence? Because we kind of have to -- we're just compelled to. We don't know why, but we do. Why do we wrap the teabag string around the cup handle? Again, we're sort of using the world around us
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A brief history of...
mainly designed to keep food and other products fresh for longer. Suddenly, there were plastic garbage bags, stretchy plastic wrap, squeezable plastic bottles, takeaway cartons, and plastic containers for fruit, vegetables, and meat.
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The three ways that good...
In fact, I bought the gold-plated special edition and it comes with a little slip of paper that says, "Don't use this juicer to make juice." The acid will ruin the gold plating. So actually, I took a carton of orange juice
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Steven Johnson: How...
We solved it with science. We solved it with chemistry." Right? I mean, the solution is so famous. It's sitting there printed on every carton of milk in every grocery store in the country, right? Pasteurization.
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Bigfoot, USA PIPE National...
creatures recited he went mad here it simply went mad and many a footprint was cast in that list as if it's been made in a kinder carton clay modeling session then came a bit of a bombshell when
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Teach every child about...
that if they make toffee apples they'll eat more as well. Do you know what I mean? For me, there isn't any need to flavor the milk. Okay? There's sugar in everything. I know the ins and outs of those ingredients. It's in everything. Even the milk hasn't escaped the kind of modern-day problems. There's our milk. There's our carton.
Video examples
The race to decode a...
Working from the few available inscriptions, she recorded how often each symbol appeared. Then she recorded how frequently each symbol appeared next to another. She stored her findings on scrap paper in cigarette cartons because writing supplies were scarce during the Second World War. By analyzing these frequencies,
Video examples
Jarrett J. Krosoczka:...
And kids made the most amazing projects. I knew they would. Kids made hamburger cards that were made out of construction paper. They took photos of their lunch lady's head and plastered it onto my cartoon lunch lady and fixed that to a milk carton and presented them with flowers. And they made their own comics,
Video examples
Transforming transport...
drive from their house one block down to pick up a carton of eggs this also reduces greenhouse gases so these communities have better air less congestion and a lot more livable space so car sharing today works really great for these communities and for people
Video examples
What baby boomers can...
One of the paradoxes of our time is that baby boomers are more vibrant and healthy longer into life, we're actually working later into life, and yet we're feeling less and less relevant. Some of us feel like a carton of milk -- an old carton of milk --
Video examples
Paul Bennett: Design is...
Why do we line up the square milk carton with the square fence? Because we kind of have to -- we're just compelled to. We don't know why, but we do. Why do we wrap the teabag string around the cup handle? Again, we're sort of using the world around us
Video examples
A brief history of...
mainly designed to keep food and other products fresh for longer. Suddenly, there were plastic garbage bags, stretchy plastic wrap, squeezable plastic bottles, takeaway cartons, and plastic containers for fruit, vegetables, and meat.
Video examples
The three ways that good...
In fact, I bought the gold-plated special edition and it comes with a little slip of paper that says, "Don't use this juicer to make juice." The acid will ruin the gold plating. So actually, I took a carton of orange juice
Video examples
Steven Johnson: How...
We solved it with science. We solved it with chemistry." Right? I mean, the solution is so famous. It's sitting there printed on every carton of milk in every grocery store in the country, right? Pasteurization.
Video examples
Bigfoot, USA PIPE National...
creatures recited he went mad here it simply went mad and many a footprint was cast in that list as if it's been made in a kinder carton clay modeling session then came a bit of a bombshell when
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Connie Britton
American Actress
For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple Rain' - it just can't be done!
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Luke Pasqualino
English Actor
I remember everyone in my nursery school class getting a carton of milk before the day started. Only, I got mine about 20 minutes later than everyone else because it had to be kept on the radiator for a short while. I liked warm milk when I was small.
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Daniel Levitin
American Scientist
Use the environment to remind you of what needs to be done. If you're afraid you'll forget to buy milk on the way home, put an empty milk carton on the seat next to you in the car or in the backpack you carry to work on the subway.
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Twinkle Khanna
Indian Businesswoman
By the time I was in my teens, I was reading science fiction. I had this maternal uncle who had cartons of books. It's important to read because you have to fill your head with words.
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Paula Fox
American Author
My father brought me a box of books once when I was about three and a half or four. I remember the carton they were in and the covers with illustrations by Newell C. Wyeth.
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Chelsea Cain
American Novelist
As a seven-year-old, I remember when Etan Patz disappeared and was immortalized as the first missing-child face on a milk carton.
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Andrew Keegan
American Actor
I did have a literal shed of fan mail once. It was literally filled with, like, 25 of those giant mail cartons.
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Brandy Norwood
American Musician
When I was a little girl, I remember carrying my orange UNICEF carton with me as I went Trick-or-Treating.
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Ruth Asawa
American Sculptor
An artist looks at a juice bottle, an egg carton, or a newspaper and sees something valuable in them.
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Dylan McDermott
American Actor
My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere.
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Connie Britton
American Actress
For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple Rain' - it just can't be done!
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Luke Pasqualino
English Actor
I remember everyone in my nursery school class getting a carton of milk before the day started. Only, I got mine about 20 minutes later than everyone else because it had to be kept on the radiator for a short while. I liked warm milk when I was small.
Quote examples
Daniel Levitin
American Scientist
Use the environment to remind you of what needs to be done. If you're afraid you'll forget to buy milk on the way home, put an empty milk carton on the seat next to you in the car or in the backpack you carry to work on the subway.
Quote examples
Twinkle Khanna
Indian Businesswoman
By the time I was in my teens, I was reading science fiction. I had this maternal uncle who had cartons of books. It's important to read because you have to fill your head with words.
Quote examples
Paula Fox
American Author
My father brought me a box of books once when I was about three and a half or four. I remember the carton they were in and the covers with illustrations by Newell C. Wyeth.
Quote examples
Chelsea Cain
American Novelist
As a seven-year-old, I remember when Etan Patz disappeared and was immortalized as the first missing-child face on a milk carton.
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Andrew Keegan
American Actor
I did have a literal shed of fan mail once. It was literally filled with, like, 25 of those giant mail cartons.
Quote examples
Brandy Norwood
American Musician
When I was a little girl, I remember carrying my orange UNICEF carton with me as I went Trick-or-Treating.
Quote examples
Ruth Asawa
American Sculptor
An artist looks at a juice bottle, an egg carton, or a newspaper and sees something valuable in them.
Quote examples
Dylan McDermott
American Actor
My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere.
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