单词 | cart |
释义 | cart (once / 269 pages) nv A cart is a vehicle with wheels that's pulled by an animal, a person, or by another vehicle. You could attach a cart to your dog and teach him to pull it around. The typical cart is hooked up to a draft horse or another farm animal. Other kinds of carts include hand carts, which can be stacked with heavy items and easily pushed or pulled by people; and golf carts, which are open vehicles that are powered by electricity or gasoline. When you cart something around, you lug it or transport it. The word cart comes from a Scandinavian source, probably the Old Norse kartr. WORD FAMILYcart: cartage, carted, carter, carting, carts+/carter: carters/carting: cartings USAGE EXAMPLESShortly after 5 a.m., a vendor selling chicken and cheese tamales wheeled her cart up to the group. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) Its former customers now roam the aisles of Walmart and Target, or fill their carts virtually. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) The area that was targeted on Saturday is packed with wholesale markets and usually teeming with daily labourers unloading vans and wheeling carts around. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) 1n a heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal Hypo|Hyper dogcart a cart drawn by a dog dumpcarta cart that can be tilted to empty contents without handling horse cart, horse-cartheavy cart; drawn by a horse; used for farm work jaunting car, jaunty caran open two-wheeled one-horse cart formerly widely used in Ireland jinrikisha, ricksha, rickshawa small two-wheeled cart for one passenger; pulled by one person oxcarta cart that is drawn by an ox donkey cart, pony cart, ponycart, tub-carta cart with an underslung axle and two seats water cartcart with a tank for water (especially with fresh water for sale) camion, draya low heavy horse cart without sides; used for haulage tumbrel, tumbrila farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution watering cartwater cart with a tank and sprinkler for sprinkling roads waggon, wagon any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by an animal or a tractor 2n wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels Syn|Hypo|Hyper go-cart, handcart, pushcart applecart a handcart from which apples and other fruit are sold in the street barrow, garden cart, lawn cart, wheelbarrowa cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels hand truck, trucka handcart that has a frame with two low wheels and a ledge at the bottom and handles at the top; used to move crates or other heavy objects laundry carthandcart for moving a load of laundry serving carta handcart for serving food shopping carta handcart that holds groceries or other goods while shopping pastry carta serving cart for displaying pastry desserts to restaurant patrons tea cart, tea trolley, tea wagon, teacartserving cart for serving tea or light refreshments wheeled vehicle a vehicle that moves on wheels and usually has a container for transporting things or people 3v transport something in a cart Hyper carry, transport move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body 4v draw slowly or heavily Syn|Hypo|Hyper drag, hale, haul bouse, bowse haul with a tackle draw, force, pull cause to move by pulling |
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