ambition vs carrot

ambition

noun
  • A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal. 

  • Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people. 

  • An object of an ardent desire. 

  • A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things. 

verb
  • To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet. 

carrot

noun
  • Any motivational tool; an incentive to do something. 

  • A redhead; a ginger-haired person 

  • A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, especially the subspecies sativus in the family Apiaceae. 

  • A police officer from somewhere within the British Isles, but specifically outside of Greater London. 

  • A shade of orange similar to the flesh of most carrots (also called carrot orange). 

  • Someone from a rural background. 

verb
  • To treat (an animal pelt) with a solution of mercuric nitrate as part of felt manufacture. 

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