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Car

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Noun

1. auto, automobile, car, machine, motorcar

a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine

Example Sentences:
'he needs a car to get to work'

2. car, railcar, railroad car, railway car

a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad

Example Sentences:
'three cars had jumped the rails'

3. car, gondola

the compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant

4. car, elevator car

where passengers ride up and down

Example Sentences:
'the car was on the top floor'

5. cable car, car

a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway

Example Sentences:
'they took a cable car to the top of the mountain'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Car

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noun
1. 
a. Also called: motorcar, automobile
a self-propelled road vehicle designed to carry passengers, esp one with four wheels that is powered by an internal-combustion engine
b. 
(as modifier)
car coat
2. 
a conveyance for passengers, freight, etc, such as a cable car or the carrier of an airship or balloon
3. British
a railway vehicle for passengers only, such as a sleeping car or buffet car
4. mainly US and Canadian
a railway carriage or van
5. mainly US
the enclosed platform of a lift
6.  a poetic word for chariot
abbreviation for
compound annual return

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Car

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noun
1. 
any vehicle on wheels
2.  OLD-FASHIONED, Poetic
a chariot
3.  US
a vehicle that moves on rails, as a streetcar
4. 
an automobile
5.  US
elevator (sense 2)
6. 
the part of a balloon or airship for carrying people and equipment
carat(s)

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Car

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abbr.
carat
n.
1. An automobile.
2. A vehicle, such as a streetcar, that runs on rails: a railroad car.
3. A boxlike enclosure for people or cargo on a conveyance: an elevator car.
4. The part of a balloon or airship that carries people or cargo.
5. Archaic A chariot, carriage, or cart.

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