car

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway

   they took a cable car to the top of the mountain

2. 2
   noun

   a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad

   three cars had jumped the rails

3. 3
   noun

   where passengers ride up and down

   the car was on the top floor

4. 4
   noun

   A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry and a bus.

   He drove his car to the theatre.

5. 5
   noun

   A wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal.

   It shall suffice me to enioy your loue, Which whiles I haue, I thinke my selfe as great, As Caesar riding in the Romaine streete, With captiue kings at his triumphant Carre.

6. 6
   noun

   Any vehicle designed to run on rails, especially an unpowered one towed by being connected to others.

   The conductor coupled the cars to the locomotive.

7. 7
   noun

   The moving, load-carrying component of an elevator or other cable-drawn transport mechanism.

   Fix the car of the express elevator - the door is sticking.

8. 8
   noun

   The passenger-carrying portion of certain amusement park rides, such as Ferris wheels.

   The most exciting part of riding a Ferris wheel is when your car goes over the top.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English carre, borrowed from Anglo-Norman carre, from Old Northern French (compare Old French char), from Latin carrus (“two-wheeled baggage wagon”), from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”). Doublet of carrus and horse.