"caret" meaning in English

See caret in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈkæɹ.ɪt/ [General-American], /ˈkæɹ.ət/ [General-American], /ˈkɛɹ.ɪt/ [General-American], /ˈkɛɹ.ət/ [General-American], /ˈkæɹ.ɪt/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈkæɹ.ət/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-caret.wav [Southern-England], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-caret2.wav [Southern-England] Forms: carets [plural]
Rhymes: -æɹɪt, -æɹət Etymology: From the Latin caret (“it lacks”), the third-person singular present active indicative form of careō (“I lack”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|caret||it lacks}} Latin caret (“it lacks”), {{m|la|careō||I lack}} careō (“I lack”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} caret (plural carets)
  1. A mark ⟨ ‸ ⟩ used by writers and proofreaders to indicate that something is to be inserted at that point.
    Sense id: en-caret-en-noun-1JB0q845 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 26 2 30 8 1 33
  2. An exponentiation symbol or operator ⟨^⟩. Translations (symbol): ĉapelo (Esperanto), sirkumfleksi (Finnish), circonflexe (French), Einschaltungszeichen [neuter] (German), Zirkumflex [masculine] (German), Dach [neuter] (German), hiányjel (Hungarian), beszúrásjel (Hungarian), betoldásjel (Hungarian), beszúrási jel (Hungarian), háztető (Hungarian), kalap (Hungarian), hatványjel (Hungarian), പാടിനി (pāṭini) (Malayalam), hiwi (Maori), tohu hiwi (Maori), acento circunflexo [masculine] (Portuguese), signo de intercalación [masculine] (Spanish), düzeltme imi (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-caret-en-noun-fJvS0pJ1 Disambiguation of 'symbol': 0 100 0 0 0
  3. (user interface) An indicator, often a blinking line or bar and usually called a cursor, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place.
    Sense id: en-caret-en-noun-QUf50Luq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 26 2 30 8 1 33
  4. (nonstandard) A circumflex ⟨ ˆ ⟩. Tags: nonstandard Categories (topical): Symbols
    Sense id: en-caret-en-noun-U0JUTIjo Disambiguation of Symbols: 14 8 19 44 2 13
  5. (nonstandard) A háček ⟨ ˇ ⟩. Tags: nonstandard
    Sense id: en-caret-en-noun-kKgBkrbH
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hyponyms: inverted caret Derived forms: caret notation, caretlike
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /kəˈɹɛt/, /ˈkæɹ.ɪt/ [General-American], /ˈkæɹ.ət/ [General-American], /ˈkɛɹ.ɪt/ [General-American], /ˈkɛɹ.ət/ [General-American], /ˈkæɹ.ɪt/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈkæɹ.ət/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-caret3.wav [Southern-England], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-caret.wav [Southern-England], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-caret2.wav [Southern-England] Forms: carets [plural]
Rhymes: -æɹɪt, -æɹət Etymology: From French caret. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|caret}} French caret Head templates: {{en-noun}} caret (plural carets)
  1. (archaic) A kind of turtle, the hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata). Tags: archaic Categories (lifeform): Sea turtles
    Sense id: en-caret-en-noun-Or6qpyyJ Disambiguation of Sea turtles: 25 3 28 7 3 34 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 26 2 30 8 1 33
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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      "word": "caret notation"
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    },
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          "^",
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          "_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0",
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          "lang": "Esperanto",
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          "word": "ĉapelo"
        },
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
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        },
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
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          "word": "circonflexe"
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          "_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "symbol",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Einschaltungszeichen"
        },
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "symbol",
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "symbol",
          "tags": [
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          ],
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        },
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "symbol",
          "word": "hiányjel"
        },
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "symbol",
          "word": "beszúrásjel"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "symbol",
          "word": "betoldásjel"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "symbol",
          "word": "beszúrási jel"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "symbol",
          "word": "háztető"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "symbol",
          "word": "kalap"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "symbol",
          "word": "hatványjel"
        },
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          "_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0",
          "code": "ml",
          "lang": "Malayalam",
          "roman": "pāṭini",
          "sense": "symbol",
          "word": "പാടിനി"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "symbol",
          "word": "hiwi"
        },
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          "_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "symbol",
          "word": "tohu hiwi"
        },
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          "_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "symbol",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "acento circunflexo"
        },
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          "_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "symbol",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "signo de intercalación"
        },
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          "_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "symbol",
          "word": "düzeltme imi"
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        "(user interface) An indicator, often a blinking line or bar and usually called a cursor, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place."
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            "Orthography",
            "Writing",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Language",
            "Human",
            "Communication",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        "A circumflex ⟨ ˆ ⟩."
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          "circumflex",
          "circumflex#English"
        ],
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          "ˆ",
          "ˆ#Translingual"
        ]
      ],
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        "(nonstandard) A circumflex ⟨ ˆ ⟩."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "nonstandard"
      ]
    },
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        {
          "ref": "1944, Maro Beath Jones, “Inclusive Uniform Alphabet for Russian, Bulgarian, Serb-Croatian, Czech, Polish”, in Claremont Slavic Series, Claremont College, page 10",
          "text": "[…] the more conventional semivocalic j and the caret (ˇ) respectively.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1948, Bohumil Emil Mikula, Progressive Czech (Bohemian) (Chicago: Czechoslovak National Council of America), 6",
          "text": "The caret (ˇ), háček, is used over the following consonants: c, d, n, t, r, s, and z to indicate the soft sound. The caret (ˇ) is also used over the vowel e (See Pronunciation II, b, p, v)."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Michael Shapiro, The Sense of Change: Language as History, Indiana University Press, page 58",
          "text": "In contemporary Czech, the “hook” or caret is no longer in use for lower-case t and d when the latter are palatal; instead, an apostrophe is used (t’, d’) This development is clearly connected with the practical difficulty encountered in printing a caret over letter stems that are too thin.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "A háček ⟨ ˇ ⟩."
      ],
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          "háček",
          "háček#English"
        ],
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          "ˇ",
          "ˇ#Translingual"
        ]
      ],
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        "(nonstandard) A háček ⟨ ˇ ⟩."
      ],
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        "nonstandard"
      ]
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      "ipa": "/ˈkæɹ.ɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkæɹ.ət/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɛɹ.ɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɛɹ.ət/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈkæɹ.ɪt/",
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        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈkæɹ.ət/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æɹɪt"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æɹət"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "carat"
    },
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      "homophone": "karat"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "carrot"
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        "General-American"
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      "ipa": "/ˈkɛɹ.ɪt/",
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        "General-American"
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɛɹ.ət/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
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      "rhymes": "-æɹət"
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "An exponentiation symbol or operator ⟨^⟩."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "exponentiation",
          "exponentiation"
        ],
        [
          "operator",
          "operator"
        ],
        [
          "^",
          "^#Translingual"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "An indicator, often a blinking line or bar and usually called a cursor, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cursor",
          "cursor"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "user interface",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(user interface) An indicator, often a blinking line or bar and usually called a cursor, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English nonstandard terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A circumflex ⟨ ˆ ⟩."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "circumflex",
          "circumflex#English"
        ],
        [
          "ˆ",
          "ˆ#Translingual"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nonstandard) A circumflex ⟨ ˆ ⟩."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "nonstandard"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English nonstandard terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1944, Maro Beath Jones, “Inclusive Uniform Alphabet for Russian, Bulgarian, Serb-Croatian, Czech, Polish”, in Claremont Slavic Series, Claremont College, page 10",
          "text": "[…] the more conventional semivocalic j and the caret (ˇ) respectively.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1948, Bohumil Emil Mikula, Progressive Czech (Bohemian) (Chicago: Czechoslovak National Council of America), 6",
          "text": "The caret (ˇ), háček, is used over the following consonants: c, d, n, t, r, s, and z to indicate the soft sound. The caret (ˇ) is also used over the vowel e (See Pronunciation II, b, p, v)."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Michael Shapiro, The Sense of Change: Language as History, Indiana University Press, page 58",
          "text": "In contemporary Czech, the “hook” or caret is no longer in use for lower-case t and d when the latter are palatal; instead, an apostrophe is used (t’, d’) This development is clearly connected with the practical difficulty encountered in printing a caret over letter stems that are too thin.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A háček ⟨ ˇ ⟩."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "háček",
          "háček#English"
        ],
        [
          "ˇ",
          "ˇ#Translingual"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nonstandard) A háček ⟨ ˇ ⟩."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "nonstandard"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkæɹ.ɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkæɹ.ət/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɛɹ.ɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɛɹ.ət/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkæɹ.ɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkæɹ.ət/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æɹɪt"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æɹət"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "carat"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "karat"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "carrot"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-caret.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e6/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-caret.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-caret.wav.mp3",
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-caret2.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f0/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-caret2.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-caret2.wav.mp3",
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "symbol",
      "word": "ĉapelo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "symbol",
      "word": "sirkumfleksi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "symbol",
      "word": "circonflexe"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "symbol",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Einschaltungszeichen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "symbol",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Zirkumflex"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "symbol",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Dach"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "symbol",
      "word": "hiányjel"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "symbol",
      "word": "beszúrásjel"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "symbol",
      "word": "betoldásjel"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "symbol",
      "word": "beszúrási jel"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "symbol",
      "word": "háztető"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "symbol",
      "word": "kalap"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "symbol",
      "word": "hatványjel"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "pāṭini",
      "sense": "symbol",
      "word": "പാടിനി"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "symbol",
      "word": "hiwi"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "symbol",
      "word": "tohu hiwi"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "symbol",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "acento circunflexo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "symbol",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "signo de intercalación"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "symbol",
      "word": "düzeltme imi"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Caret"
  ],
  "word": "caret"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from French",
    "English terms derived from French",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English terms with homophones",
    "Rhymes:English/æɹət",
    "Rhymes:English/æɹət/2 syllables",
    "Rhymes:English/æɹɪt",
    "en:Sea turtles",
    "en:Symbols"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "caret"
      },
      "expansion": "French caret",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From French caret.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "carets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "caret (plural carets)",
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A kind of turtle, the hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hawksbill",
          "hawksbill"
        ],
        [
          "Eretmochelys imbricata",
          "Eretmochelys imbricata#Translingual"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) A kind of turtle, the hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kəˈɹɛt/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-caret3.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/fe/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-caret3.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-caret3.wav.mp3",
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkæɹ.ɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkæɹ.ət/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɛɹ.ɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɛɹ.ət/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkæɹ.ɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkæɹ.ət/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æɹɪt"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æɹət"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "carat"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "karat"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "carrot"
    },
    {
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
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  ],
  "word": "caret"
}

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