Meaning of car | Babel Free
kɑːDefinitions
- ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Kari'na
- 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.
- The first part of a cons in Lisp. The first element of a list.
- The most widespread of the Nicobarese languages spoken in the Nicobar Islands of India (ISO 839-3 code "caq").
- A surname.
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Initialism of Central African Republic. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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Abbreviation of carnitine. abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
- carat.
- 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
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A wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal. archaic
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Abbreviation of Carolina (North Carolina or South Carolina, states in the United States of America) abbreviation, alt-of
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Initialism of chimeric antigen receptor. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
- a piece of land or a building where cars may be parked. parkeerterrein, parkeergarage ???????? ??????????? ??????? estacionamento parkovište der Parkplatz parkeringsplads ????? st??µe?s??, p??????parking, aparcamiento parkla ??????? pysäköintialue parc de stationnement????? ????? ?? ????? ???? ??????? ???? ?? ???? ??? parkiralište parkoló(hely) tempat parkir bílastæði parcheggio ??? ??? automobiliu stovejimo vieta/aikštele autoparks; autostavvieta tempat letak kereta parkeerterrein, parkeerga...
- A wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal. A cart. A chariot. A four-wheeled cab, as opposed to a (two-wheeled) Hansom cab
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A cart. archaic
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Initialism of Cordillera Administrative Region. Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- a telephone that can be used in a car. motorfoon ?????? ???????? ??????? ? ???? celular para automóveis autotelefon das Autotelefon biltelefon t???f??? a?t?????t?? teléfono de automóvil autotelefon ????? ?? ?? ??????? ???? ??????? ??? autopuhelin téléphone de voiture ???????? ????????? ??? ??? ????? ??? ?? ???? ???? ??? telefon u automobilu autótelefon telepon mobil cellulare d'auto ????? ??? ?? automobilio (radijo) telefonas automašinas telefons telefon dalam kereta autotelefoon mobiltelefon...
- A cart
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A chariot. archaic
- An automobile.
- A chariot
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A four-wheeled cab, as opposed to a (two-wheeled) Hansom cab. UK, archaic, obsolete
- A vehicle, such as a streetcar, that runs on rails: a railroad car.
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Any vehicle designed to run on rails, especially an unpowered one towed by being connected to others. Canada, US
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An unpowered unit in a railroad train, used to hold either passengers or cargo. Canada, US
- A boxlike enclosure for people or cargo on a conveyance: an elevator car.
- A similar vehicle used in special contexts, such as mines, quarries, and mills.
- The part of a balloon or airship that carries people or cargo.
- an individual vehicle, powered or unpowered, in a multiple unit.
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Archaic A chariot, carriage, or cart. Archaic
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(Automotive Engineering) a. Also called: motorcar or automobile a self-propelled road vehicle designed to carry passengers, esp one with four wheels that is powered by an internal-combustion engine or
- A rough unit of quantity approximating the amount which would fill a railroad car.
- a conveyance for passengers, freight, etc, such as a cable car or the carrier of an airship or balloon
- The moving, load-carrying component of an elevator or other cable-drawn transport mechanism.
- The passenger-carrying portion of certain amusement park rides, such as Ferris wheels.
- The part of an airship, such as a balloon or dirigible, which houses the passengers and control apparatus.
- A sliding fitting that runs along a track.
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The aggregate of desirable characteristics of a car. US, informal, uncountable
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A floating perforated box for living fish. US
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A clique or gang. US, slang
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Deliberate misspelling of cat. Internet, alt-of, deliberate, humorous, misspelling
Equivalents
Afrikaans
kar
አማርኛ
መኪና
བོད་སྐད
མོ་ཊ
Cymraeg
car
Euskara
auto
Galego
coche
Hausa
mota
ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi
kaʻa
Igbo
ụgbọ ala
Íslenska
bíll
ಕನ್ನಡ
ಕಾರು
Lëtzebuergesch
Auto
Te Reo Māori
motokā
मराठी
गाडी
Bahasa Melayu
kereta
Malti
karozza
नेपाली
कार
සිංහල
මෝටර රිය
Slovenščina
avto
ChiShona
motokari
Soomaali
babuur
Sesotho
koloi
Türkmençe
awtomaşyn
IsiXhosa
imoto
IsiZulu
imoto
Examples
“He drove his car to the theatre.”
“He was thinking about buying a brand new car.”
“I'm a stunt; ride in the car with some bump in the trunk.”
“If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] .”
“The race around the Interlagos circuit in São Paolo effectively became a 12-lap dash to the flag when Valtteri Bottas triggered the safety car after he pulled his Mercedes over with engine trouble.”
“Then, of course, there are the cars themselves. The most valuable classic car ever sold at auction was a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO that sold for more than $48 million in 2018. Of the top ten most valuable cars ever sold at auction, six are Ferraris.”
“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.”
“He has deserved it [armour], were it carbuncled Like holy Phoebus’ car.”
“The Red Foliot sate in his car of polished ebony, drawn by six black horses with flowing manes and tails; before him went his musicians, pipers and minstrels doing their craft, and behind him fifty spearmen, weighed down with armour and ponderous shields that covered them from chin to toe.”
“In a poem by Sappho, Aphrodite is represented as riding in a car drawn by sparrows.”
“The conductor coupled the cars to the locomotive.”
“The 11:10 to London was operated by a 4-car diesel multiple unit.”
“From the frontmost car of the subway, he filmed the progress through the tunnel.”
“We ordered five hundred cars of gypsum.”
“This market reports only one or two cars per day, selling by the hundred weight, and at a price a little lower than that of Indian corn.”
“Fix the car of the express elevator - the door is sticking.”
“The most exciting part of riding a Ferris wheel is when your car goes over the top.”
“Everything being apparently in readiness now, I stepped into the car of the balloon, […]”
“"What about a car?" "The car will be my next care. I have already planned how it is to be made and attached. Meanwhile I will simply show you how capable my apparatus is of supporting the weight of each of us."”
“On boats 25 feet or more, it is best to mount a mast car and track on the front of the mast so you can adjust the height of the pole above the deck”
“Buy now! You can get more car for your money.”
“The elements of a list are the successive cars along the "cdr chain." That is, the elements are the car, the car of the cdr, the car of the cdr of the cdr, etc.”
“Decades of conflict in CAR mirror the instability in other fragile African states where reliance on Russia’s military offerings has become increasingly prevalent, amid an aggressive push by Moscow to lessen Western influence on the continent.”
CEFR level
A1
Beginner
This word is part of the CEFR A1 vocabulary — beginner level.
This word is part of the CEFR A1 vocabulary — beginner level.
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