car
Translingual edit
Symbol edit
car
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɑː/
Audio (RP) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /kɑɹ/
Audio (GA) (file) - (Scotland) IPA(key): [kʰäɾ]
- (Boston) IPA(key): [kʰaː]
- Homophones: carr, Carr, Karr
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Etymology 1 edit
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 horse.
Alternative forms edit
- carr (archaic)
Noun edit
car (plural cars)
- A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation.
- Synonyms: auto, motorcar, vehicle, (US) automobile, (Britain, colloquial) motor, (obsolete) carriage; see also Thesaurus:automobile
- She drove her car to the mall.
- 2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown[1], performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG:
- I'm a stunt; ride in the car with some bump in the trunk.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion[2]:
- 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: […] .
- (dated) A wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal
- 1594 (first publication), Christopher Marlow[e], The Trovblesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edvvard the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
- 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.
- c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene viii]:
- He has deserved it [armour], were it carbuncled
Like holy Phoebus’ car.
- (dated) A cart.
- (dated) A chariot.
- (UK, Birmingham, obsolete) A four-wheeled cab, as opposed to a (two-wheeled) Hansom cab.
- Any vehicle designed to run on rails
- (rail transport, chiefly Canada, US) An unpowered unit in a railroad train.
- (rail transport) an individual vehicle, powered or unpowered, in a multiple unit.
- The 11:10 to London was operated by a 4-car diesel multiple unit.
- (rail transport) A passenger-carrying unit in a subway or elevated train, whether powered or not.
- From the frontmost car of the subway, he filmed the progress through the tunnel.
- A rough unit of quantity approximating the amount which would fill a railroad car.
- 1907, Texas Agricultural, Mechanical College System, Bulletin, volumes 93-117, page 5:
- 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.
- 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.
- The passenger-carrying portion of certain amusement park rides, such as Ferris wheels.
- Synonym: carriage
- The most exciting part of riding a Ferris wheel is when your car goes over the top.
- The part of an airship, such as a balloon or dirigible, which houses the passengers and control apparatus.
- 1850, John Wise, A System of Aeronautics, page 152:
- Everything being apparently in readiness now, I stepped into the car of the balloon, […]
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- "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."
- (sailing) A sliding fitting that runs along a track.
- (uncountable, US, informal) The aggregate of desirable characteristics of a car.
- Buy now! You can get more car for your money.
- (US) A floating perforated box for living fish.
- (US, prison slang) A clique or gang.
- (Internet) Deliberate misspelling of cat.
Hyponyms edit
- amphibious car
- armored car, armoured car
- automobile car
- baggage car
- bait car
- ballast car
- bar car
- bent car
- black and white, black-and-white
- black car
- box car, box-car, boxcar
- bubble car
- buffet car
- bumper car
- cabin car
- cable car, cable-car, cablecar
- cattle car
- cement car
- city car
- clown car
- coal car
- combination car
- compact executive car
- company car
- compliance car
- concept car
- container car
- control car
- cop car
- coupe
- crane car
- crew car
- crime car
- cruise car
- dining car
- dome car
- driving car
- dummy car
- dump car
- dynamometer car
- e-car
- economy car
- electric car
- electric flower car
- estate car
- family car
- fan car
- fastback
- ferry car
- flatcar, flat car
- flower car
- fossil car
- freight car
- funnycar, funny car
- gadding car
- getaway car
- ghost car
- golf car
- gondola car
- grain car, grain-car, graincar
- grip car, grip-car
- halo car
- hatchback
- hire car
- hog car
- hopper car
- horse car, horsecar
- hybrid car
- hydrogen car
- interurban car
- Irish car
- jaunting car
- jaunty car
- kei car
- kiddie car
- life car
- lift car
- livestock car
- loan car
- lounge car
- luggage car
- lumber car
- mail car, mail-car, mailcar
- midget car
- mill car
- mine car
- motor car, motorcar
- mulligan car
- muscle car
- notchback
- observation car
- ore car
- outside car
- pace car
- palace car
- panda car
- parlor car, parlour car
- passenger car
- patrol car
- pedal car, pedalcar
- pie car
- platform car
- police car
- pony car
- poultry car
- power car
- private car
- prowl car
- Pullman car
- pulpwood car
- pump car, pump-car
- Q-car
- quarry car
- race car, racecar
- racing car, racing-car
- radio car
- radio-controlled car
- rail car, rail-car, railcar
- railroad car
- red car
- refreshment car
- rental car
- restaurant car
- rice car
- road car
- robo-car
- rocket car
- safety car
- saloon
- scrap car
- sedan
- self-driving car
- sheep car
- skid car
- skip car
- sleeping car
- slot car, slot-car, slotcar
- smoking car
- soapbox car
- solar car
- sports car, sportscar
- sprint car, sprintcar
- squad car, squadcar
- squareback
- stock car, stockcar
- streetcar, street-car, street car
- sub-cloud car
- subway car
- surface car
- tank car
- ten-second car
- timber car
- touring car
- town car
- toy car
- trailer car
- transportation car
- trap car
- trolley, trolley car, trolley-car
- tumble-car
- unmarked car
- veteran car
- vintage car
- virtual safety car
- water car
- well car
- world car
- wreck car, wrecking car, wrecker car
- z car, Z-car, Zed-car
Derived terms edit
- aerocar
- aircar
- anticar
- caraholic
- car alarm
- carbage
- car barn
- carbarn
- car battery
- carbeam
- car body
- car-body van
- car bomb, car-bomb
- car boot
- car-booter
- car boot sale
- carborne
- car bra
- car brain
- carbuilder
- car carrier
- car cemetery
- car-centric
- car chase
- car clout
- car clouting
- car coat
- carcoat
- carcoon
- car crash
- carden
- cardening
- car door
- carfare
- car ferry
- carfie
- carfleet
- carfree, car-free
- car fridge
- carful
- cargasm
- car gate
- car glass
- car guard
- car-handed
- car hire
- carhop
- car hop, car-hop
- car-house
- carhouse
- car insurance
- carjack
- car jack, car-jack
- carjacking
- car-jacking, car jacking
- car key
- carless
- car-lifting
- carlike
- carline
- carloading
- car lot
- carlot
- Carmageddon
- carmaker
- carmaking
- carman
- carmate
- car mile
- car mileage
- carnap
- carnapper
- carnapping
- carness
- car park, carpark
- car part
- car-phone, car phone, carphone
- carplane
- carpool
- carpooler
- car pooler, car-pooler
- carport
- car racing
- car radio
- car rental
- car replacer
- car safety seat
- car seat
- car sewer
- carshare
- car shed
- carsick
- car sickness
- carside
- car-sleeper
- carspiel
- carsploitation
- car-sticker
- car surfing
- cartop
- cartopper
- car transporter
- car wash, carwash
- carwasher
- carwashing
- car wreck
- chemical car
- chick car
- Comcar
- cruck
- cyclecar
- decar
- dodgem car
- dog that caught the car
- ecocar
- econocar
- electronic car key
- floating car data
- flying car
- forecar
- grand touring car
- gyrocar
- handcar
- housecar
- hovercar
- hydrocar
- hypercar
- incar
- Indy car
- intercar, inter-car
- Irish car bomb
- jetcar
- line car
- log car
- McCar
- Mexican car wash
- microcar
- minecar
- minicar
- model car
- multicar
- my car has broken down
- nanocar
- new-car smell
- on it like a car bonnet
- outcar
- podcar
- production car
- race car driver
- rent-a-car
- robocar
- Schnabel car
- sidecar
- stop the car
- supercar
- the proverbial dog that caught the car
- tramcar
- tricar
- turbocar
- undercar
- undercover car
- zombie car
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
Translations edit
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See also edit
Etymology 2 edit
Acronym of contents of the address part of register number. Note that it was based on original hardware and has no meaning today.
Noun edit
car (plural cars)
- (programming) The first part of a cons in Lisp. The first element of a list.
- 2000, Matt Kaufmann, Panagiotis Manolios, J Strother Moore, Computer-aided reasoning: an approach:
- 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.
Derived terms edit
Gallery edit
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A hydrogen-powered car.
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Freight cars.
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A self-propelled passenger car.
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Ferris wheel cars.
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Car on a sailboat.
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Car of a Zeppelin.
References edit
- “car”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “car”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams edit
Aromanian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Latin carrus, from Gaulish *karros. Compare Romanian car.
Noun edit
car n (plural cari)
Related terms edit
Aynu edit
Noun edit
car
Catalan edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Central, Valencian) [ˈkar]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) (Mallorca, Menorca) [ˈka], (Ibiza) [ˈkar]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
Adjective edit
car (feminine cara, masculine plural cars, feminine plural cares)
Etymology 2 edit
Inherited from Latin quārē (“how; why”). Compare French car.
Pronunciation edit
Conjunction edit
car
Etymology 3 edit
Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κάροιον (károion, “yard, spar”), from Ancient Greek κεραίᾱ (keraíā).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
car m (plural cars)
Further reading edit
- “car” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Czech edit
Etymology edit
From Old Church Slavonic цѣсарь (cěsarĭ), from Proto-Slavic *cěsařь, from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
car m anim
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old French quer (“as, since, because, for”), from Latin quārē (“how; why”). Compare Catalan car.
Conjunction edit
car
- as, since, because, for
- J’ai ouvert mon parapluie car il pleuvait.
- I opened my umbrella because it was raining.
- c. 1656–1662, Blaise Pascal, “Dossier de travail - Fragment n° 10 / 35”, in Pensées [Thoughts][4]:
- Car dans la création de l’homme Adam en était le témoin et le dépositaire de la promesse du sauveur qui devait naître de la femme, lorsque les hommes étaient encore si proches de la Création qu’ils ne pouvaient avoir oublié leur création et leur chute.
- For in the creation of man, Adam was the witness and the depositary of the promise of the saviour who would be born of woman, when the men were still so close to the Creation that they could not have forgotten their creation and their fall.
Synonyms edit
- parce que (in some contexts)
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from English car, itself borrowed from Anglo-Norman and the Old Northern French car, variant of Old French char. Doublet of char.
Noun edit
car m (plural cars)
- a single-decked long-distance, or privately hired, bus, a coach
- Synonym: autocar
- Les élèves vont à l’école en car. ― The pupils go to school by coach.
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “car” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
- “car” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “car”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Interlingua edit
Adjective edit
Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish caraid, from Proto-Celtic *kareti (“to love”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂- (“to desire, wish”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
car (present analytic carann, future analytic carfaidh, verbal noun carthain, past participle cartha)
Conjugation edit
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Synonyms edit
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
car | char | gcar |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Lombard edit
Etymology edit
Akin to Italian caro, from Latin carus.
Adjective edit
car
Middle French edit
Conjunction edit
car
- for (because)
Descendants edit
- French: car
Occitan edit
Etymology edit
From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin cārus.
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Adjective edit
car m (feminine singular cara, masculine plural cars, feminine plural caras)
Piedmontese edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
car
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Russian царь (carʹ). Doublet of cesarz, cezar, and kajzer.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
car m pers
- (historical) czar, tsar, tzar (title of the former emperors of Russia)
- Synonym: (colloquial) batiuszka
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
Romagnol edit
Etymology edit
From Latin carrus (“wagon; cart”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Ville Unite):
Noun edit
car m (plural chër) (Ville Unite)
Romanian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Latin carrus, from Gaulish *karros. Sense 3 is influenced by French char and/or Italian carro armato.
Noun edit
car n (plural care)
Declension edit
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
car
Etymology 3 edit
From Latin caries or carius. Doublet of carie.
Alternative forms edit
- cariu (dated)
Noun edit
car m (plural cari)
Declension edit
Scottish Gaelic edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish cor (“act of putting”), verbal noun of fo·ceird (“to put”).
Noun edit
car m (genitive singular cuir, plural caran)
Derived terms edit
Adverb edit
car
- somewhat, quite, rather
- Tha thu car fadalach. ― You're somewhat late.
- Thig an stòiridh gu ceann car obann. ― The story came to an end somewhat abruptly.
Related terms edit
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Slavic *cěsařь, *cьsarь, from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cȁr m (Cyrillic spelling ца̏р)
- czar, emperor, monarch
- Podajte caru carevo, a Bogu Božje. ― Give the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor and God what belongs to God.
- 1971, Branko B. Radičević, Baš-Čelik, Belgrade, page 1:
- Bijaše jedan car, i imađaše tri sina i tri ćerke.
- There once was a tsar and he had three daughters and three sons.
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “car” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Slovene edit
Etymology edit
From Serbo-Croatian cȁr, from Proto-Slavic *cěsařь, from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cār m anim (female equivalent caríca or cārinja)
Inflection edit
Masculine inan., soft o-stem | |||
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nom. sing. | cár | ||
gen. sing. | cárja | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
cár | cárja | cárji |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
cárja | cárjev | cárjev |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
cárju | cárjema | cárjem |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
cár | cárja | cárje |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
cárju | cárjih | cárjih |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
cárjem | cárjema | cárji |
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “car”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Adverb edit
car
Further reading edit
- “car”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Volapük edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
car (nominative plural cars)
- (weapon) bow
Declension edit
Welsh edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Welsh carr, from Proto-Brythonic *karr, from Proto-Celtic *karros.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
car m (plural ceir)
Derived terms edit
- rhif car (“registration number”)
- sêl cist car (“car boot sale”)
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
car | gar | nghar | char |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Yola edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English carre, from Anglo-Norman carre, from Latin carra.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /kɔː/
- Homophones: caure, core
Noun edit
car
- car
- 1927, “ZONG OF TWI MAARKEET MOANS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 129, line 6:
- An awi gome her egges wi a wheel an car taape,
- And away went her eggs, with the car overset.
References edit
- Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 129
Zazaki edit
Proper noun edit
car