caret

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/ˈkæɹ.ɪt/,/ˈkæɹ.ət/

• Audio(Southern England):

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• (General American)IPA^(key):/ˈkæɹ.ɪt/,/ˈkæɹ.ət/,/ˈkɛɹ.ɪt/,/ˈkɛɹ.ət/
• Homophones:carat,karat,carrot(weak vowel merger)
• Rhymes:-æɹɪt,-æɹət

Etymology 1

From theLatincaret(“it lacks”),the third-person singular present active indicative form ofcareō(“I lack”).

Noun

caret(pluralcarets)

1. A mark ⟨‸⟩ used bywritersandproofreadersto indicate that something is to be inserted at that point.
2. Anexponentiationsymbol oroperator⟨＾⟩.
3. (user interface)An indicator, often a blinking line or bar and usually called acursor,indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place.
4. (nonstandard)Acircumflex⟨ˆ⟩.
5. (nonstandard)Aháček⟨ˇ⟩.
   • 1944,Maro Beath Jones, “Inclusive Uniform Alphabet for Russian, Bulgarian, Serb-Croatian, Czech, Polish”, inClaremont Slavic Series,Claremont College,page10:

     […] the more conventional semivocalicjand thecaret(ˇ) respectively.

   • 1948,Bohumil Emil Mikula,Progressive Czech (Bohemian)(Chicago:Czechoslovak National Council of America),6

     Thecaret(ˇ),háček,is used over the following consonants:c,d,n,t,r,s,andzto indicate the soft sound. Thecaret(ˇ) is also used over the vowele(See Pronunciation II, b, p, v).

   • 1991,Michael Shapiro,The Sense of Change: Language as History,Indiana University Press,→ISBN,page58,→ISBN:

     In contemporary Czech, the “hook” orcaretis no longer in use for lower-casetanddwhen the latter are palatal; instead, an apostrophe is used (t’,d’) This development is clearly connected with the practical difficulty encountered in printing acaretover letter stems that are too thin.

Hyponyms

• inverted caret

Derived terms

• caret notation
• caretlike

Translations

symbol

• Esperanto:ĉapelo
• Finnish:sirkumfleksi(fi)
• French:circonflexe(fr)
• German:Einschaltungszeichenn,Zirkumflex(de)m,Dach(de)n
• Hungarian:hiányjel(hu),beszúrásjel,betoldásjel,beszúrási jel,háztető(hu),kalap(hu),hatványjel
• Malayalam:പാടിനി(pāṭini)
• Maori:hiwi,tohu hiwi
• Portuguese:acento circunflexo(pt)m
• Spanish:signo de intercalaciónm
• Turkish:düzeltme imi

Etymology 2

FromFrenchcaret.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/kəˈɹɛt/

• Audio(Southern England):

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Noun

caret(pluralcarets)

1. (archaic)A kind of turtle, thehawksbill(Eretmochelys imbricata).

References

• “caret”,inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary,Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.

Anagrams

• Carte,Trace,reäct,acter,Certa,carte,crate,cater,react,Cater,creat,trace,recta

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ka.ʁɛ/

Etymology 1

Early borrowing fromSpanishcarey.

Noun

caretm(pluralcarets)

1. loggerhead turtle(Caretta caretta)

   Synonyms:caouanne,tortue carette

   • 1874,François P. L. Pollen, D. C. van Dam,Recherches sur la Faune de Madagascar et de ses dépendances,page30:

     Dès qu’ils aperçoivent uncaretou une tortue franche, ils tachent de les avoir à portée et dans le moment favorable ils lancent avec une adresse étonnante un des harpons en visant sur la tête ou la queue pour ne pas dommager les plaques latérales; qui dans lescaretsfont la valeur de l’animal.

     As soon as they spot aloggerhead turtleor a green sea turtle, they try to get it within range, and when the time is right they launch with astonishing dexterity one of the harpoons, aiming for the head or the tail so as not to damage the side plates, which inturtlesthe value of the animal is found.

2. hawksbill turtle(Eretmochelys imbricata)

   Synonyms:tortue imbriquée,tortue à écailles

Etymology 2

Fromcar+‎-et.

Noun

caretm(pluralcarets)

1. spool,reel

   Synonym:dévidoir

   • 1979,Jean-Claude Dupont,Histoire populaire de l'Acadie,page344:

     La pêcheurligne sa lignequand il la tire de l’eau et l’enroule sur lecaret,dévidoir contenant normalement cinquante brasses (90 m) de ligne.

     The anglerlines his linewhen he pulls it from the water and wraps it around thespool,a reel normally containing fifty fathoms (90 m) of line.

   • 1997,Maurice Desjardins,Faits et gestes à la grève du quai de Trois-Pistoles, 1696-1997,→ISBN,page199:

     Lecaret,sur lequel était enroulé la ligne, était attaché au bateau afin d’éviter qu’il ne tombe à l’eau.

     Thespool,around which the line was wound, was attached to the boat to avoid it falling into the water.

   • 2007,Gérard Boutet,La France en héritage,→ISBN,page399:

     Le fil obtenu était enroulé sur lescarets.

     The thread obtained was wound around thespools.

2. yarn(thread of a rope)
   • 1829,Thomas Young,Résumé complet de mécanique et de la science des machines,page140:

     Les cordes qui concourent à la formation d’un câble commun, prisés isolément, sont plus solides que le cable lui-meme, dans la proportion d’environ quatre à trois; on a trouvé qu’une corde travaillée avec descaretsde cent quatre-vingts à cent trente-cinq verges de longueur, était plus solide que celle provenant decaretsréduits à une dimension de cent vingt verges, dans la rapport de six à cinq.

     The ropes that contribute to a common cable, taken in isolation, are sturdier than the cable itself, in the ratio of about four to three; we have found that a rope worked ofyarnsof one-hundred-and-eighty to one-hundred-and-thirty-five yards in length, was sturdier than that made ofthreadsreduced to a dimension of one-hundred-and-twenty yards, in the ratio of six to five.

   • 1873,Paul Poiré,La France Industrielle,page439:

     Si, au contraire, l’ouvrier, tout en empêchant le toupin de tourner, l’éloigne de l’émerillon, la partie descaretscomprise entre l’émerillon et le toupin devient moins tendue et les deuxcaretsvont pouvoir se tordre l’un sur l’autre.

     If, on the other hand, the worker while preventing the top from turning removes it from the swivel, the part of theyarnsbetween the swivel and the top becomes less taut and the twoyarnscan be twisted one over the other.

   • 1911,Paul Jacquemart, Joseph François Bois,Notions de technologie,page384:

     Lescaretsdevant produire un toron sont fixés par une de leurs extrémités au crochet de l’émerillon; l’autre extrémité de chacun d’eux est fixée à une molette pouvant lui transmettre par sa rotation un mouvement de torsion.

     Theyarns,ahead of producing a strand of rope, are fixed by one of their ends to a hook on the swivel; the other end of each one is fixed to a wheel which can apply a twisting movement by its rotation.

Derived terms

• fil de caret

Etymology 3

InheritedfromLatincarex.

Noun

caretm(pluralcarets)

1. (dated)carex,sedge

   Synonyms:carex,laîche,rouche,careiche

   • 1778,Jean-Baptiste de Monet de Lamarck,Flore françoise ou Description succincte de toutes les plantes,page169:

     Lescaretsparoissent former le passage des graminées avec la famille des scirpes, des souchets et des joncs, à laquelle ils tiennent par plusiers rapports.

     Thesedgesappear to form the evolution of the grasses with the rushes, the chufas and the bulrushes, to which they are linked by several similarities.

   • 1839,Charles-Auguste Moisan,Flore nantaise,page161:

     Plusiers espèces deCaretsportent les noms vulgaires deciseau,des feuilles à bords coupants, et derouche,rouchette,et forment un fourrage grossier.

     Several species ofsedgesbear the common names ofciseau,their leaves having sharp edges, androuche,rouchette,and they form a coarse forage.

   • 1886,Revue catholique de l'Alsace,volume 5:

     Lescaretsvivent dans les eaux très médiocres.

     Sedgeslive in very poor waters.

Etymology 4

InheritedfromLatincaret(“it lacks”).

Noun

caretm(pluralcarets)

1. caret(symbol)
   • 2002,John C. Worsley, Joshua D. Drake,PostgreSQL par la pratique,→ISBN,page163:

     Correspond à n’importe quel caractère ne faisant pas partie de ceux qui sont entre les crochets, après lecaret(ici, tout caractère sauf a, b, et c).

     Corresponds to any character that is not part of those inside the brackets, after thecaret(here, any character but a, b, or c).

   • 2003,Joey Lott,ActionScript en action,→ISBN,page223:

     Tous les caractères et toutes les plages d’une chaînerestrictsuivant lecaretsont interdites.

     All the characters and ranges of arestrictstring following thecaretare forbidden.

   • 2013,Paul Durand Desgrandes,Tout sur ma tablette Samsung Galaxy (Tab 2 et Note 10.1) pour les Nuls,→ISBN:

     Pour ouvrir un menu, dessinez le symbole decaretou accent circonflexe (^) tout en appuyant sur le bouton du stylet.

     To open a menu, draw thecaretor circumflex accent (^) symbol while pressing the stylus button.

Further reading

• “caret”,inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

Anagrams

• acter,carte,carté,créât,écart,terça,trace,tracé

Latin

Verb

caret

1. third-personsingularpresentactiveindicativeofcareō

Romanian

Etymology

BorrowedfromFrenchcaret.

Noun

caretm(pluralcareți)

1. hawksbill turtle(Eretmochelys imbricata,a sea turtle)

Declension

Declension ofcaret

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un)caret	caretul	(niște)careți	careții
genitive/dative	(unui)caret	caretului	(unor)careți	careților
vocative	caretule		careților

References

• caretin Academia Română,Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a,Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010.→ISBN

Welsh

Alternative forms

• carit(literary)
• carset(colloquial)

Pronunciation

• (North Wales)IPA^(key):/ˈkarɛt/
• (South Wales)IPA^(key):/ˈkaːrɛt/,/ˈkarɛt/

Verb

caret

1. second-personsingularconditionalcolloquialofcaru

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
caret	garet	ngharet	charet
Note:Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.