car1

[kahr] /kɑr/
noun
1.
an automobile.
2.
a vehicle running on rails, as a streetcar or railroad car.
3.
the part of an elevator, balloon, modern airship, etc., that carries the passengers, freight, etc.
4.
British Dialect. any wheeled vehicle, as a farm cart or wagon.
5.
Literary. a chariot, as of war or triumph.
6.
Archaic. cart; carriage.
Origin
1350-1400; Middle English carre < Anglo-French < Late Latin carra (feminine singular), Latin carra, neuter plural of carrum, variant of carrus < Celtic; compare Old Irish carr wheeled vehicle
Related forms
carless, adjective

car2

[kahr] /kɑr/
adjective, Chiefly Scot.
1.
left-handed.
2.
sinister.
Origin
1375-1425; Middle English (Scots) < Scots Gaelic cearr

CAR

1.
computer-assisted retrieval.
Origin
1980-85

car.

1.
carat; carats.
Examples from the web for car
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  • Moving through water, the dolphin was able to attain the average speed of a car driven in the city.
  • The common wisdom is that it's more expensive to lease a car than to buy one.
  • car sharing revs up on college campuses as officials grapple with parking and congestion.
  • And a car has to change lanes to overtake a cyclist.
  • In addition, weigh issues of reliability and safety as objectively with hybrid vehicles as with any other type of car.
  • Still, she refused to sit in the other car and got off the train at the next stop.
  • In the last episode, a caller asked about stopping a car.
  • As long as the car is recharged overnight, the average commuter should rarely have to use its internal-combustion engine.
British Dictionary definitions for car

car

/kɑː/
noun
1.
  1. Also called motorcar, automobile. a self-propelled road vehicle designed to carry passengers, esp one with four wheels that is powered by an internal-combustion engine
  2. (as modifier): car coat
2.
a conveyance for passengers, freight, etc, such as a cable car or the carrier of an airship or balloon
3.
(Brit) a railway vehicle for passengers only, such as a sleeping car or buffet car
4.
(mainly US & Canadian) a railway carriage or van
5.
(mainly US) the enclosed platform of a lift
6.
a poetic word for chariot
Word Origin
C14: from Anglo-French carre, ultimately related to Latin carra, carrum two-wheeled wagon, probably of Celtic origin; compare Old Irish carr

CAR

abbreviation
1.
compound annual return
Word Origin and History for car
n.

c.1300, "wheeled vehicle," from Anglo-French carre, Old North French carre, from Vulgar Latin *carra, related to Latin carrum, carrus (plural carra), originally "two-wheeled Celtic war chariot," from Gaulish karros, a Celtic word (cf. Old Irish and Welsh carr "cart, wagon," Breton karr "chariot"), from PIE *krsos, from root *kers- "to run" (see current (adj.)).

"From 16th to 19th c. chiefly poetic, with associations of dignity, solemnity, or splendour ..." [OED]. Used in U.S. of railway carriages by 1826; extension to "automobile" is by 1896. Car bomb first 1972, in reference to Northern Ireland. The Latin word also is the source of Italian and Spanish carro, French char.

Slang definitions & phrases for car

car

noun

A group of prisoners from the same city or other place; locational clique: All these kids were in the Sacramento car (1980s+ Prison)

Related Terms

funny car, prowl car


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CAR

  1. Carina (constellation)
  2. Carolina Panthers
  3. computer-assisted retrieval

car.

  1. carat
  2. cargo