Car definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary CAR, CAER, CHAR, in names of places, is sometimes the Celtic Caer, a town or city, as in Caermarthen. CAR, n. 1. A small vehicle moved on wheels, usually drawn ... usually propelled by an internal combustion engine; "he needs a car to get to work" [syn: car, auto, automobile, machine, motorcar] 2: a wheeled vehicle adapted to ... rails of railroad; "three cars had jumped the rails" [syn: car, railcar, railway car, railroad car] 3: the compartment that ...
parlor car definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a passenger car for day travel; you pay extra fare for individual chairs [syn: parlor car, parlour car, drawing-room car, palace car, chair car] Merriam Webster's noun Date: 1868 an ...
drawing-room car definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a passenger car for day travel; you pay extra fare for individual chairs [syn: parlor car, parlour car, drawing-room car, palace car, chair car] Webster's 1913 Dictionary Drawing-room Draw" ...
palace car definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a passenger car for day travel; you pay extra fare for individual chairs [syn: parlor car, parlour car, drawing-room car, palace car, chair car] Webster's 1913 Dictionary Palace Pal"ace, ...
sleeping car definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a passenger car that has berths for sleeping [syn: sleeping car, sleeper, wagon-lit] Merriam Webster's noun Date: 1839 a railroad passenger car having berths for sleeping Webster's 1913 Dictionary Sleeping Sleep"ing, a. & n. from Sleep. Sleeping car, a railway car or carrriage, arranged with apartments and berths for sleeping. ...
freight car definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a railway car that carries freight Webster's 1913 Dictionary Car Car, n. [OF. car, char, F. cahr, fr. L. carrus, Wagon: a Celtic word; cf. W. car, Armor. karr, Ir. & Gael. carr. cf. Chariot.] 1. A ...
Horse car definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Car Car, n. [OF. car, char, F. cahr, fr. L. carrus, Wagon: a Celtic word; cf. W. car, Armor. karr, Ir. & Gael. carr. cf. Chariot.] 1. A small ... a railroad. [U. S.] Note: In England a railroad passenger car is called a railway carriage; a freight car a ...
Dummy car definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Dummy Dum"my, a. [See ... 2. Fictitious or sham; feigned; as, a dummy watch. Dummy car. See under Car. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Car Car, n. [OF. car, char, F. cahr, fr. L. carrus, Wagon: a Celtic ...
Hand car definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Car Car, n. [OF. car, char, F. cahr, fr. L. carrus, Wagon: a Celtic word; cf. W. car, Armor. karr, Ir. & Gael. carr. cf. Chariot.] 1. A small ... a railroad. [U. S.] Note: In England a railroad passenger car is called a railway carriage; a freight car a ...
Street car definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Car Car, n. [OF. car, char, F. cahr, fr. L. carrus, Wagon: a Celtic word; cf. W. car, Armor. karr, Ir. & Gael. carr. cf. Chariot.] 1. A small ... a railroad. [U. S.] Note: In England a railroad passenger car is called a railway carriage; a freight car a ...
Car coupler definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Car Car, n. [OF. car, char, F. cahr, fr. L. carrus, Wagon: a Celtic word; cf. W. car, Armor. karr, Ir. & Gael. carr. cf. Chariot.] 1. A small ... a railroad. [U. S.] Note: In England a railroad passenger car is called a railway carriage; a freight car a ...
Car coupling definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Car Car, n. [OF. car, char, F. cahr, fr. L. carrus, Wagon: a Celtic word; cf. W. car, Armor. karr, Ir. & Gael. carr. cf. Chariot.] 1. A small ... a railroad. [U. S.] Note: In England a railroad passenger car is called a railway carriage; a freight car a ...
Pullman car definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: luxurious passenger car; for day or night travel [syn: Pullman, Pullman car] Webster's 1913 Dictionary Pullman car Pull"man car` [Named after Mr. Pullman, who introduced them.] A kind of sleeping car; also, a palace car; -- often shortened to Pullman. Moby ...
railway car definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a wheeled ... rails of railroad; "three cars had jumped the rails" [syn: car, railcar, railway car, railroad car] Webster's 1913 Dictionary Railroad Rail"road`, Railway Rail"way ... a brake used in stopping railway cars or locomotives. Railway car, a large, heavy vehicle with flanged wheels fitted for running ... on a railway. [U.S.] Railway carriage, a railway passenger car. [Eng.] Railway scale, a platform scale bearing a track ...
car pool definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a small group of car drivers who arrange to take turns driving while the others ... arrangement in which a group of people commute together by car; also the group entering into such an arrangement Collin's Cobuild Dictionary also carpool, car-pool(car pools, car pooling, car pooled) 1. A car pool is an ...