| 单词 | car |
| 释义 | car (once / 55 pages) n Your car is your automobile, your wheels, your vehicle. A car can also be another kind of moving compartment — such as a railroad car, a cable car, or a trolley car. The word car has been around much longer than the automobile. It comes from the Latin carrus, a kind of wagon the Romans discovered from the Gauls, a European people the Romans conquered. It shows up in Italian and Spanish (carro, meaning "a car or a cart," and it also survives in various forms in modern Irish, Gaelic, Welsh, Breton, German, and other languages. When you’re listening to your engine purr, you can thank the Gauls. And the Romans. WORD FAMILYcar: carful, cars+/carful: carfuls USAGE EXAMPLESLike driving a new car off a dealership forecourt, I just can’t bear to devalue them. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) He cut the use of personal state vehicles in half by creating the state motor pool to share cars among state agencies. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Police believe Morales fled to Attleboro, Massachusetts, and stole a car that was found Sunday. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1n a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine he needs a car to get to work Syn|Hypo|Hyper auto, automobile, machine, motorcar ambulance a vehicle that takes people to and from hospitals beach waggon, beach wagon, estate car, station waggon, station wagon, waggon, wagona car that has a long body and rear door with space behind rear seat bus, heap, jalopya car that is old and unreliable cab, hack, taxi, taxicaba car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money compact, compact cara small and economical car convertiblea car that has top that can be folded or removed coupea car with two doors and front seats and a luggage compartment cruiser, patrol car, police car, police cruiser, prowl car, squad cara car in which policemen cruise the streets; equipped with radiotelephonic communications to headquarters electric, electric automobile, electric cara car that is powered by electricity gas guzzlera car with relatively low fuel efficiency hardtopa car that resembles a convertible but has a fixed rigid top hatchbacka car having a hatchback door horseless carriagean early term for an automobile hot rod, hot-roda car modified to increase its speed and acceleration jeep, landrovera car suitable for traveling over rough terrain limo, limousinelarge luxurious car; usually driven by a chauffeur loanera car that is lent as a replacement for one that is under repair minicara car that is even smaller than a subcompact car minivana small box-shaped passenger van; usually has removable seats; used as a family car Model Tthe first widely available automobile powered by a gasoline engine; mass-produced by Henry Ford from 1908 to 1927 pace cara high-performance car that leads a parade of competing cars through the pace lap and then pulls off the course race car, racer, racing cara fast car that competes in races roadster, runabout, two-seateran open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat saloon, sedana car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors sport car, sports cara small low car with a high-powered engine; usually seats two persons S.U.V., SUV, sport utility, sport utility vehiclea high-performance four-wheel drive car built on a truck chassis Stanley Steamera steam-powered automobile stock cara car kept in dealers' stock for regular sales subcompact, subcompact cara car smaller than a compact car phaeton, tourer, touring carlarge open car seating four with folding top secondhand car, used-cara car that has been previously owned; not a new car berlina limousine with a glass partition between the front and back seats broughama sedan that has no roof over the driver's seat finishera race car that finishes a race funny wagonan ambulance used to transport patients to a mental hospital gypsy caba taxicab that cruises for customers although it is licensed only to respond to calls minicaba minicar used as a taxicab panda cara police cruiser shooting brakeanother name for a station wagon stock cara racing car with the basic chassis of a commercially available car automotive vehicle, motor vehicle a self-propelled wheeled vehicle that does not run on rails 2n a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad three cars had jumped the rails Syn|Hypo|Hyper railcar, railroad car, railway car baggage car, luggage van a railway car where passengers' bags are carried cabin car, caboosea car on a freight train for use of the train crew; usually the last car on the train club car, lounge carrailroad car having a bar and tables and lounge chairs freight cara railway car that carries freight guard's vanthe car on a train that is occupied by the guard handcara small railroad car propelled by hand or by a small motor mail cara railway car in which mail is transported and sorted carriage, coach, passenger cara railcar where passengers ride slip carriage, slip coacha railway car at the end of the train; it can be detached without stopping the train tendercar attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water van(Great Britain) a closed railroad car that carries baggage or freight boxcara freight car with roof and sliding doors in the sides cattle cara freight car for transporting cattle coal carfreight car with fixed sides and no roof; for transporting coal buffet car, diner, dining car, dining compartmenta passenger car where food is served in transit flat, flatbed, flatcarfreight car without permanent sides or roof gondola, gondola cara low flat-bottomed freight car with fixed sides but no roof nonsmoker, nonsmoking cara passenger car for passengers who want to avoid tobacco smoke chair car, drawing-room car, palace car, parlor car, parlour cara passenger car for day travel; you pay extra fare for individual chairs Pullman, Pullman carluxurious passenger car; for day or night travel refrigerator cara freight car that is equipped with refrigeration system sleeper, sleeping car, wagon-lita passenger car that has berths for sleeping smoker, smoking car, smoking carriage, smoking compartmenta passenger car for passengers who wish to smoke tank, tank cara freight car that transports liquids or gases in bulk wheeled vehicle a vehicle that moves on wheels and usually has a container for transporting things or people 3n a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway Syn|Hyper cable car compartment a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area 4n the compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant Syn|Hyper gondola compartment a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area 5n where passengers ride up and down the car was on the top floor Syn|Hyper elevator car compartment a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area |
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