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View usage for: (trɒli) Word forms: plural trolleys1. countable nounA trolley is an object with wheels that you use to transport heavy things such as shoppingor luggage. [British] A porter relieved her of the three large cases she had been pushing on a trolley. ...supermarket trolleys. regional note: in AM, use cart 2. countable nounA trolley is a small table on wheels which is used for serving drinks or food. [British] The waiter had brought the sweet trolley. regional note: in AM, use cart 3. countable nounA trolley is a bed on wheels for moving patients in hospital. [British] She was left on a hospital trolley for 14 hours without even a glass of water. regional note: in AM, use gurney 4. countable nounA trolley or trolley car is an electric vehicle for carrying people which travels on rails in the streets of a town. [US] He took a northbound trolley on State Street. regional note: in BRIT, use tram trolley in British English (ˈtrɒlɪ) noun1. British a small table on casters used for conveying food, drink, etc 2. British a wheeled cart or stand pushed by hand and used for moving heavy items, such as shopping in a supermarket or luggage at a railway station 3. British (in a hospital) a bed mounted on casters and used for moving patients who are unconscious, immobilized, etc 4. British trolleybus 5. US and Canadian trolley car 6. a device that collects the current from an overhead wire (trolley wire), third rail, etc, to drive the motor of an electric vehicle 7. a pulley or truck that travels along an overhead wire in order to support a suspended load 8. mainly British a low truck running on rails, used in factories, mines, etc, and on railways 9. a truck, cage, or basket suspended from an overhead track or cable for carrying loads in a mine, quarry, etc 10. off one's trolley verb11. (transitive) to transport (a person or object) on a trolley Word origin C19: probably from troll1trolley in American English (ˈtrɑli) nounWord forms: plural ˈtrolleys1. a wheeled carriage, basket, etc. that runs suspended from an overhead track 2. US an apparatus, as a grooved wheel at the end of a pole, for transmitting electric current from an overhead wire to the motor of a streetcar, etc. 4. Chiefly British any of various wheeled vehicles or carts, esp. a cart pushed by hand verb transitive, verb intransitiveWord forms: ˈtrolleyed or ˈtrolleying5. US to carry or ride on a trolley Idioms: off one's trolley Word origin < East Anglian dial. < troll 1More idioms containingtrolley off your trolley © 25/04/2018, Shutterstock Examples of 'trolley' in a sentencetrolley The shopping trolley contained a box with a vintage ring inside.His luggage trolley was nearby and he had been choked to death.So how is it that people are dying in hospital corridors and on hospital trolleys?One was pushing a tiny shopping trolley.It also emerged that two patients died after long waits on trolleys in hospital corridors in recent weeks.Maybe a camp old drinks trolley.Certainly her husband, pushing their trolley, seemed vaguely familiar.The same applies to walking round stores putting shopping in a trolley.Is it chucking food in your trolley without checking the prices?Nor is he recognised by the woman with the tea trolley.So how can the need for narrower hospital trolleys be explained?There is the crashing of a drinks trolley.They trundle down to the shops with their trolley baskets.He grabbed a stray shopping trolley in the car park and returned it to the trolley park.But my shopping trolley is always loaded with eggs.He had no recollection of overturning a food trolley.Most workers yearn for a tea trolley stacked with sticky buns.He was lying on a hospital trolley but the sides had not been properly secured.The rest of us have the drinks trolley.Both went missing more than a week ago from a luggage trolley in Edinburgh airport.We are looking at a white trolley bed, in a cubicle.We'll have the usual trolley dash for the star performers.But we had watched him come back, on the white trolley bed.We predict a trolley dash. Word lists withtrolley Types of furnitureIn other languagestrolley British English: trolley / ˈtrɒlɪ/ NOUN A trolley is a small cart on wheels that you use to carry things such as shopping or luggage. ...supermarket trolleys. - American English: cart shopping
- Arabic: عَرَبَة
- Brazilian Portuguese: carrinho de mão supermercado
- Chinese: 手推车
- Croatian: kolica
- Czech: vozík
- Danish: vogn
- Dutch: trolley
- European Spanish: carro carrito
- Finnish: ostoskärry
- French: chariot
- German: Servierwagen
- Greek: τραπεζάκι με ρόδες
- Italian: carrello
- Japanese: ワゴン
- Korean: 트롤리
- Norwegian: kjerre
- Polish: wózek
- European Portuguese: carrinho de mão supermercado
- Romanian: cărucior
- Russian: тележка
- Latin American Spanish: carro
- Swedish: kundvagn
- Thai: รถเข็น
- Turkish: servis masası
- Ukrainian: візок
- Vietnamese: xe đẩy
All related terms of 'trolley'Chinese translation of 'trolley' n (c) - (Brit, for luggage, in supermarket)
手推车(車) (shǒutuīchē) (辆(輛), liàng)美 = cart - (Brit, = table on wheels)
茶具车(車) (chájùchē) (个(個), gè)美 = cart - (Brit, in hospital)
有轮(輪)子的病床 (yǒu lúnzi de bìngchuáng) (张(張), zhāng)美 = gurney - (US, = vehicle)
电(電)车(車) (diànchē) (辆(輛), liàng)英 = tram
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