carrot

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And dangling this carrot is an attempt to get undecided or swing voters to stop and say, hold on, I can get the best of both worlds if I choose Clinton.

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  1. noun A biennial Eurasian plant (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) in the parsley family, widely cultivated as an annual for its edible taproot.
  2. noun The usually tapering, elongate, fleshy orange root of this plant, eaten as a vegetable.
  3. noun Queen Anne's lace.
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  • I sit there staring at my bed, wondering was it I who made it before I left? —  The Rules of Attraction
  • And dangling this carrot is an attempt to get undecided or swing voters to stop and say, hold on, I can get the best of both worlds if I choose Clinton. —  CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2008
  • Whereas to pick an apple off a tree or eat some grain or a carrot is a natural thing to do; people enjoy doing it; they don't feel disturbed by it. —  MoJo Blogs and Articles
  • Using the Nobel Peace Prize as a carrot was a colossal mistake and a terrible precedent. —  AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • Some too boil the carrot, and scald the cream but neither is necessary and by boiling much of the saccharine quality of the carrot is always unavoidably lost. —  The Old Foodie
 

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  1. French carotte, from Old French garroite, from Latin carōta, from Greek karōton; see ker-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also carot, carote; = German carotte, karotte, from French carote, now carotte = Italian carota, from Latin carota, prob. from Greek καρωτόν, a carrot.
  2. from carrot, n., the oil of carrot being one of the preparations used for this purpose.
 

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