noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a television/movie/cartoon character
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Who’s your favourite television character?
cartoon strip
strip cartoon
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
editorial
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A recent editorial cartoon by Tom Toles caught the irony in all of this.
■ NOUN
character
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Inside the Odeon, on both sides of the screen, up the soaring walls, ran a frieze of cartoon characters .
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Studio stores where you can find classy designs with cartoon characters .
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Later we became our favourite cartoon characters .
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Fletcher Reede is a cartoon character with real heart.
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Junior Cox, an apple- faced cartoon character , appears in adventures in the comic inside the box.
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The cartoon character he was named after was cuter.
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Daniel Oates has invented a repertoire of three-dimensional cartoon characters to populate his work.
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Who knew, until this week, that you were a cartoon character of ridicule?
strip
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I'd spent the afternoon doing a strip cartoon of him.
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Few of these strip cartoons were actually comic.
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He was in Radio Times as a strip cartoon for eight years and his portrait has hung in the Royal Academy.
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Study 5 involved a collaborative problem-solving task in which children ordered, in sequence, the segments of strip cartoon stories.
■ VERB
animate
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Application Discuss animated cartoons with your students.
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Give them the following information: Every time you see an animated cartoon you are seeing a series of pictures.
draw
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These must be done with swift strokes, as if you were drawing a cartoon rather than painting in oil.
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The boy drew cartoon images of a courtroom sketch artist and a reporter Wednesday while Easton made plans for his psychiatric evaluation.
watch
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In one, the children watch cartoon videos.
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While you are waiting for your private audience with the king of the Magic Kingdom you can watch vintage cartoons .
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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
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All the energy and excitement in this live-action remake of the much-loved Disney animated film went into merchandizing and marketing.
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Application Discuss animated cartoons with your students.
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Beauty and the Beast was the first animated film ever nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
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Give them the following information: Every time you see an animated cartoon you are seeing a series of pictures.
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The two animated films are the No. 1 and No. 2 top-selling movie videos of all time.
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There is a large selection of animated cartoons produced for children.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a satirical cartoon that appears in the Washington Post
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an editorial cartoon
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The cartoon shows a group of elephants trying to get into a phone-box.
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We always watch cartoons on Saturday mornings.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Are you a big fan of cartoons?
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Disney executives believe the porcelain models will become another lucrative spin off for their cartoon empire.
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I'd spent the afternoon doing a strip cartoon of him.
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I produced the original cartoon in tempera; it was entitled Treasure Trove and based on an Aesop Fable.
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In 1989, Adams launched his cartoon while still working at Pac Bell.
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It's a long and drawn out affair - one minute of cartoon can take weeks to build.
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Other cartoons are lifeless; plenty of sitcoms offer droll toddlers and clever menials, bringing down their betters with disparaging asides.
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To refine the final video an early version of the cartoon was screened for children from five different countries.