[Fictionary] CELATONE ballot

[Jean-Joseph Cote]

Here are some propositions (with no prepositions) as to the meaning of 
CELATONE.  Give me your onesey-twosey opinions and any appropriate 
commentary or heckling by the time I return from delivering a young 
friend to his freshman dorm at James Madison University; I'm due back 
Thursday evening, 27 September.

Jean-Joseph
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celatone - n. - A fountain designed to produce spectacular ice in winter.

CELATONE - n. - A brand of plastic color filters used for tinting 
lighting in theater and film.

celatone - n. - (Fm. Gk.) The state of euphoria after successfully 
completing a feat of physical strength or agility.

celatone - n. - Any instrument or appliance used to simulate the sound 
of crunching celery by Foley artists with oral allergies.

celatone - n. - A helmet with a telescope in place of one of the 
eyeholes, for observing the moons of Jupiter by a sailor sitting in a 
gimbaled chair.  Invented by Galileo Galilei.

celatone - adj. - The quality of being just at the edge of the human 
range of hearing.  Example: While most birds sing in the audible range, 
the celatone whistle of the Louisiana Waterthrush can seem painfully high.

Celatone - n. - A translucent sea-green hard plastic used to make 
refrigerator shelves and drawers, drinking glasses, and other useful 
items.  Once popular in the early 1960's, it was revived for many uses 
in the 1980's.

celatone - n. - 1) A nineteenth-century lotion made from celery; the 
product was sold by Hartwick Brothers of Rochester, NY, between 1854 and 
1897. 2) A light-green color, halfway between celadon and celery. 3) A 
jocular euphemism for a nauseous appearance.

celatone - n. - A gum-based ink formulation for drawing on cellulose 
acetate. Celatone ink was the first technique permitting the use of 
opaque colors on an animation cel; previous inks and paints all allowed 
the background to show through non-black areas. (From cel + latex + tone.)