formula

formula (nominative singular)
formulat (nominative plural)
formula (accusative nominative singular)
formulat (accusative nominative plural)
formulan (accusative genitive singular)
formulat (accusative genitive plural)
formulan (genitive singular)
formuloiden (genitive plural)
formuloitten (genitive plural)
formulain (genitive plural rare)
formulaa (partitive singular)
formuloita (partitive plural)
formulassa (inessive singular)
formuloissa (inessive plural)
formulasta (elative singular)
formuloista (elative plural)
formulaan (illative singular)
formuloihin (illative plural)
formulalla (adessive singular)
formuloilla (adessive plural)
formulalta (ablative singular)
formuloilta (ablative plural)
formulalle (allative singular)
formuloille (allative plural)
formulana (essive singular)
formuloina (essive plural)
formulaksi (singular translative)
formuloiksi (plural translative)
formulatta (abessive singular)
formuloitta (abessive plural)
formuloin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
formulani (nominative singular)
formulani (nominative plural)
formulani (accusative nominative singular)
formulani (accusative nominative plural)
formulani (accusative genitive singular)
formulani (accusative genitive plural)
formulani (genitive singular)
formuloideni (genitive plural)
formuloitteni (genitive plural)
formulaini (genitive plural rare)
formulaani (partitive singular)
formuloitani (partitive plural)
formulassani (inessive singular)
formuloissani (inessive plural)
formulastani (elative singular)
formuloistani (elative plural)
formulaani (illative singular)
formuloihini (illative plural)
formulallani (adessive singular)
formuloillani (adessive plural)
formulaltani (ablative singular)
formuloiltani (ablative plural)
formulalleni (allative singular)
formuloilleni (allative plural)
formulanani (essive singular)
formuloinani (essive plural)
formulakseni (singular translative)
formuloikseni (plural translative)
formulattani (abessive singular)
formuloittani (abessive plural)
formuloineni (comitative plural)
formulasi (nominative singular)
formulasi (nominative plural)
formulasi (accusative nominative singular)
formulasi (accusative nominative plural)
formulasi (accusative genitive singular)
formulasi (accusative genitive plural)
formulasi (genitive singular)
formuloidesi (genitive plural)
formuloittesi (genitive plural)
formulaisi (genitive plural rare)
formulaasi (partitive singular)
formuloitasi (partitive plural)
formulassasi (inessive singular)
formuloissasi (inessive plural)
formulastasi (elative singular)
formuloistasi (elative plural)
formulaasi (illative singular)
formuloihisi (illative plural)
formulallasi (adessive singular)
formuloillasi (adessive plural)
formulaltasi (ablative singular)
formuloiltasi (ablative plural)
formulallesi (allative singular)
formuloillesi (allative plural)
formulanasi (essive singular)
formuloinasi (essive plural)
formulaksesi (singular translative)
formuloiksesi (plural translative)
formulattasi (abessive singular)
formuloittasi (abessive plural)
formuloinesi (comitative plural)
formulamme (nominative singular)
formulamme (nominative plural)
formulamme (accusative nominative singular)
formulamme (accusative nominative plural)
formulamme (accusative genitive singular)
formulamme (accusative genitive plural)
formulamme (genitive singular)
formuloidemme (genitive plural)
formuloittemme (genitive plural)
formulaimme (genitive plural rare)
formulaamme (partitive singular)
formuloitamme (partitive plural)
formulassamme (inessive singular)
formuloissamme (inessive plural)
formulastamme (elative singular)
formuloistamme (elative plural)
formulaamme (illative singular)
formuloihimme (illative plural)
formulallamme (adessive singular)
formuloillamme (adessive plural)
formulaltamme (ablative singular)
formuloiltamme (ablative plural)
formulallemme (allative singular)
formuloillemme (allative plural)
formulanamme (essive singular)
formuloinamme (essive plural)
formulaksemme (singular translative)
formuloiksemme (plural translative)
formulattamme (abessive singular)
formuloittamme (abessive plural)
formuloinemme (comitative plural)
formulanne (nominative singular)
formulanne (nominative plural)
formulanne (accusative nominative singular)
formulanne (accusative nominative plural)
formulanne (accusative genitive singular)
formulanne (accusative genitive plural)
formulanne (genitive singular)
formuloidenne (genitive plural)
formuloittenne (genitive plural)
formulainne (genitive plural rare)
formulaanne (partitive singular)
formuloitanne (partitive plural)
formulassanne (inessive singular)
formuloissanne (inessive plural)
formulastanne (elative singular)
formuloistanne (elative plural)
formulaanne (illative singular)
formuloihinne (illative plural)
formulallanne (adessive singular)
formuloillanne (adessive plural)
formulaltanne (ablative singular)
formuloiltanne (ablative plural)
formulallenne (allative singular)
formuloillenne (allative plural)
formulananne (essive singular)
formuloinanne (essive plural)
formulaksenne (singular translative)
formuloiksenne (plural translative)
formulattanne (abessive singular)
formuloittanne (abessive plural)
formuloinenne (comitative plural)
formulansa (nominative singular)
formulansa (nominative plural)
formulansa (accusative nominative singular)
formulansa (accusative nominative plural)
formulansa (accusative genitive singular)
formulansa (accusative genitive plural)
formulansa (genitive singular)
formuloidensa (genitive plural)
formuloittensa (genitive plural)
formulainsa (genitive plural rare)
formulaansa (partitive singular)
formuloitaan (partitive plural)
formuloitansa (partitive plural)
formulassaan (inessive singular)
formulassansa (inessive singular)
formuloissaan (inessive plural)
formuloissansa (inessive plural)
formulastaan (elative singular)
formulastansa (elative singular)
formuloistaan (elative plural)
formuloistansa (elative plural)
formulaansa (illative singular)
formuloihinsa (illative plural)
formulallaan (adessive singular)
formulallansa (adessive singular)
formuloillaan (adessive plural)
formuloillansa (adessive plural)
formulaltaan (ablative singular)
formulaltansa (ablative singular)
formuloiltaan (ablative plural)
formuloiltansa (ablative plural)
formulalleen (allative singular)
formulallensa (allative singular)
formuloilleen (allative plural)
formuloillensa (allative plural)
formulanaan (essive singular)
formulanansa (essive singular)
formuloinaan (essive plural)
formuloinansa (essive plural)
formulakseen (singular translative)
formulaksensa (singular translative)
formuloikseen (plural translative)
formuloiksensa (plural translative)
formulattaan (abessive singular)
formulattansa (abessive singular)
formuloittaan (abessive plural)
formuloittansa (abessive plural)
formuloineen (comitative plural)
formuloinensa (comitative plural)


trailer

head

trailer c (singular definite traileren, plural indefinite trailere)

traileren (definite singular)
trailere (indefinite plural)
trailer (indefinite nominative singular)
traileren (definite nominative singular)
trailere (indefinite nominative plural)
trailerene (definite nominative plural)
trailers (genitive indefinite singular)
trailerens (definite genitive singular)
traileres (genitive indefinite plural)
trailerenes (definite genitive plural)

(automotive) trailer (vehicle towed behind another vehicle)


trailer

trailer (indefinite nominative singular)

Borrowed from English trailer. First attested in 1948.

(automotive) a (large) trailer (on or towed by a truck)


carrier

но́сьбіт

person or object that carries someone or something else

(engineering) That which drives or carries.

(especially automotive) Part of a differential gear assembly that holds gears and their bearings.


sedan

The sense of "windowed chair" was first used by Sir Sanders Duncombe in 1634, possibly from a southern Italian dialect of Italian sede (“seat”), from Latin sedes. The "motorcar" sense was first recorded in 1912 in North America.

The People who had often heard of me, were very curious to croud about the Sedan, and the Girl was complaiſant enough to make the Bearers ſtop, and to take me in her Hand that I might be conveniently ſeen.

1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Country Described. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), pages 222–223:

An enclosed windowed chair suitable for a single occupant, carried by at least two porters, in equal numbers in front and behind, using wooden rails that passed through metal brackets on the sides of the chair.

1986 May, Jack Keebler, U.S. Family Sedans - traditional technology takes on state of the art, Popular Science, page 24,
What we are observing in this sedan square-off is the cumulative effect of modern design technology on the family sedan.

In addition there was a companion four-door sedan, mounted on the C- 38 Series 121.5-inch platform and equipped with the 1 14-horsepower L-head six.

1996, Dennis Adler, Fifties Flashback: The American Car, published 2004, page 22:

The 1929 Model A Tudor sedan on these pages will receive a mild top chop of 3 inches, combined with the installation of a rear delivery door and a filled roof.

2005, Dennis W. Parks, American Hot Rod: How to Build a Hot Rod with Boyd Coddington, page 115:

(US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand) An automobile designed in a configuration with separate compartments for engine space, driver/passenger space and luggage space.


sedan

Deze week worden nog 10 meer Fords verwacht, waarbij 7 Sedans zijn.

1918 March 28, “Correspondentie. Rock Valley”, in De Volksvriend, volume 44, number 19, page 3:


trunk

From Middle English tronke, trunke, from Old French tronc (“alms box, tree trunk, headless body”), from Latin truncus (“a stock, lopped tree trunk”), from truncus (“cut off, maimed, mutilated”). For the verb, compare French tronquer, and see truncate. Doublet of truncus and tronk.

der

the apple does not fall far from the trunk

I'm a stunt; ride in the car with some bump in the trunk.

2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG:

(Canada, US, automotive) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon-style car.

bak

luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car

(automotive) A storage compartment fitted behind the seat of a motorcycle.

(transport) A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system.


vehicle

Borrowed from French véhicule, from Latin vehiculum (“a carriage, conveyance”), from vehere (“to carry”).

uder

But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.

2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion:

Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.[…]Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.

2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:

In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.

2013 June 7, Ed Pilkington, “‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 6:

A conveyance; a spacious device for carrying or transporting substances, objects, people or animals.


vehicle

en-verb

vehicle (third-person singular simple present vehicles, present participle vehicling, simple past and past participle vehicled)

vehicles (present singular third-person)
vehicling (participle present)
vehicled (participle past)
vehicled (past)

To transport in a vehicle, or as if in a vehicle.


estate

From Middle English estat, from Anglo-Norman estat and Old French estat (French: état), from Latin status. Doublet of state and status.

(UK, automotive) A station wagon; a car with a tailgate (or liftgate) and storage space to the rear of the seating which is coterminous with the passenger compartment (and often extensible into that compartment via folding or removable seating).


auto

From Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós, “self”), metanalyzed from auto- in words such as automatic, autopilot, and automobile.

It's an auto sedan which we picked up from a wholesaler locally.

(automotive) Clipping of automatic. (of a gearbox/transmission)


auto

en-noun

auto (countable and uncountable, plural autos)

A body-coloured centre pillar signalled the arrival of an electronic four-speed auto, slight suspension revisions and minor trim changes.

(automotive) An automatic gearbox/transmission.

It wasn't too bad but we did hire an auto (couldn't imagine changing gears with my right hand).

(automotive) A car with an automatic gearbox/transmission.


auto

Borrowed from Italian auto, a clipping of automobile.


auto

autko (diminutive)
auto (nominative singular)
auta (nominative plural)
auta (genitive singular)
aut (genitive plural)
autu (dative singular)
autom (dative plural)
auto (accusative singular)
auta (accusative plural)
autem (instrumental singular)
autami (instrumental plural)
aucie (locative singular)
autach (locative plural)
auto (singular vocative)
auta (plural vocative)


auto

Early borrowing from Latin actus. Doublet of the later borrowing acto.

(literature) short play from the Middle Ages or the Renaissance


horn

horn (countable and uncountable, plural horns)

From Middle English horn, horne, from Old English horn, from Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną. Compare West Frisian hoarn, Dutch hoorn, Low German Hoorn, horn, German Horn, Danish and Swedish horn, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 (haurn).
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂-nó-m, from *ḱerh₂- (“head, horn”). Compare Breton kern (“horn”), Latin cornū, Ancient Greek κέρας (kéras), Proto-Slavic *sьrna, Old Church Slavonic сьрна (sĭrna, “roedeer”), Hittite [script needed] (surna, “horn”), Persian سر (sar), Sanskrit शृङ्ग (śṛṅga, “horn”).
(telephone): From the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes.

cog

(countable, automotive) A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.

toeter

loud alarm, especially on a motor vehicle


horn

hornet (definite singular)
horn (indefinite plural)
horna (definite plural)
hornene (definite plural)

From Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-.

(automotive, rail transport) horn (warning device)


horn

hornet (definite singular)
horn (indefinite plural)
horna (definite plural)


steward

From Middle English steward, stiward, from Old English stīweard, stiġweard (“steward, housekeeper, one who has the superintendence of household affairs, guardian”), from stiġ (“a wooden enclosure; house, hall”) + weard (“ward, guard, guardian, keeper”), equivalent to sty + ward. Compare Icelandic stívarður (“steward”). More at sty, ward.

управител

any administrator of the property or affairs of another

(motor racing) Person responsible for the arbitration of incidents at a motor racing event and whether or not fines/penalties should be issued for such incidents.


rad

(automotive, plumbing, slang) Abbreviation of radiator.


eend

nl-noun

eend f (plural eenden, diminutive eendje n)

eenden (plural)
eendje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: eend

Jersey Dutch: êntśe (from the diminutive)

From Middle Dutch ent, eent, from Old Dutch ened, from Proto-West Germanic *anad, from Proto-Germanic *anadz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énh₂ts. Cognate with German Ente.
The sense “Citroën 2CV” is shared with German Ente.


ler

lȇr (canonical masculine)
ле̑р (Cyrillic)
ler (nominative singular)
leri (nominative plural)
lera (genitive singular)
lera (genitive plural)
leru (dative singular)
lerima (dative plural)
ler (accusative singular)
lere (accusative plural)
lere (singular vocative)
leri (plural vocative)
leru (locative singular)
lerima (locative plural)
lerom (instrumental singular)
lerima (instrumental plural)


bolide

Learned borrowing from Latin bolis, from Ancient Greek βολίς (bolís, “missile, arrow, javelin”).


direction

→ Turkish: direksiyon

→ Hijazi Arabic: دركسون (diriksōn)

(mechanics) Set of subsystems which allow to orient the wheels of a vehicle.


automobile

→ Alabama: mobìlika

→ Hawaiian: ʻokomopila

→ Unami: hatëmopil

From French automobile, from Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós, “self”) + French mobile (“moving”), from Latin mōbilis (“movable”), equivalent to auto- (“self”) + mobile.

Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident.

2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in American Scientist:

(US, Canada, Philippines, Australia, New Zealand) A type of motor vehicle designed to move on the ground under its own stored power and intended to carry a driver, a small number of additional passengers, and a very limited amount of other load. A car or motorcar.


automobile

As early as 1898 I proposed to representatives of a large manufacturing concern the construction and public exhibition of an automobile carriage which, left to itself, would perform a great variety of operations involving something akin to judgment.


luxury

en-adj

luxury (comparative more luxury, superlative most luxury)

more luxury (comparative)
most luxury (superlative)

From Middle English luxurie, from Old French luxurie, from Latin luxuria (“rankness, luxury”), from luxus (“extravagance, luxury”).

(automotive) Pertaining to the top-end market segment for mass production mass market vehicles, above the premium market segment.


tow truck

A motor vehicle typically equipped with winches, chains, and related equipment, and used to tow disabled vehicles.


grunt

From Middle English grunten, from Old English grunnettan (“to grunt”), from Proto-West Germanic *grunnattjan, from Proto-Germanic *grunnatjaną (“to grunt”), frequentative of Proto-Germanic *grunnōną (“to grunt”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrun- (“to shout”).
Cognate with German grunzen (“to grunt”), Danish grynte (“to grunt”). The noun senses are all instances of zero derivation from the verb.

der

A person who does ordinary and boring work.

Hucker

a person who does ordinary and boring work

(Canada, US) A dessert of steamed berries and dough, usually blueberries; blueberry grunt.


grunt

en-verb

grunt (third-person singular simple present grunts, present participle grunting, simple past and past participle grunted)

grunts (present singular third-person)
grunting (participle present)
grunted (participle past)
grunted (past)

Who just grunted?

(intransitive, UK, slang) To break wind; to fart.


chip

chip (third-person singular simple present chips, present participle chipping, simple past and past participle chipped)

chips (present singular third-person)
chipping (participle present)
chipped (participle past)
chipped (past)

Noun from Middle English chip, chippe, from Old English ċipp (“chip; small piece of wood, shaving”), from Old English *ċippian (“to cut; hew”) – attested in Old English forċippian (“to cut off”) –, from Proto-West Germanic *kippōn (“to cut; carve; hack; chop”), from Proto-Germanic *kippōną (“to chip, chop”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeyb- (“to split; divide; germinate; sprout”). Related to Dutch kip, keep (“notch; nick; score”), Dutch kippen (“to hatch”), German Low German kippen (“to cut; clip; trim; shorten”), German kipfen (“to chop off the tip; snip”), Old Swedish kippa (“to chop”). Compare also chop.
The formally similar Old English ċipp, ċypp, ċyp (“a beam; log; stock; post”), from Proto-Germanic *kippaz (“log; beam”) (whence Old Saxon kip (“post”), Old High German kipfa, chipfa (“axle, stave”), Old Norse keppr (“cudgel, club”)) is a different, unrelated word either borrowed from Latin cippus (“stake; pale; post”) or borrowed from the same source language as the Latin.
Verb from Middle English chippen, from Old English *ċippian (“to cut; hew”) – attested in Old English forċippian (“to cut off”) – see above.

stiften

to play a shot hitting the ball predominantly upwards

engine management system
engine management system

(transitive, automotive) To upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.


flatbed

en-verb

flatbed (third-person singular simple present flatbeds, present participle flatbedding, simple past and past participle flatbedded)

flatbeds (present singular third-person)
flatbedding (participle present)
flatbedded (participle past)
flatbedded (past)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-flatbed.wav

Tatiana went from working the pulley that lifted the treadless tank and placed it on tread, to painting the red star on a finished tank ready to be flatbedded and put into production.

2000, Paullina Simons, The Bronze Horseman, →ISBN:

'Well, we won't know about prints till we can flatbed his SUV back to Middle Street and check, but given he left the car in a hurry, my guess is we'll find something, maybe quite a lot.

2011 -, James Hayman, The Cutting, →ISBN:

“I'm going to have to flatbed this vehicle,” Larry said with an air of importance that irritated Pytel.

2012, Rus Bradburd, Make It, Take It, →ISBN, page 23:


bussi

bussit (plural)
bussi (absolutive singular)
bussit (absolutive plural)
bussip (ergative singular)
bussit (ergative plural)
bussimut (allative singular)
bussinut (allative plural)
bussimit (ablative singular)
bussinit (ablative plural)
bussikkut (prosecutive singular)
bussitigut (plural prosecutive)
bussimi (locative singular)
bussini (locative plural)
bussimik (instrumental singular)
bussinik (instrumental plural)
bussitut (equative singular)
bussitut (equative plural)


nerf bar

A tubular bumper running below the doors along the side of four-wheeled vehicle, in place of a running board.


tow

tow (third-person singular simple present tows, present participle towing, simple past and past participle towed)

tows (present singular third-person)
towing (participle present)
towed (participle past)
towed (past)

→ Welsh: towio

From Middle English towen, from Old English togian, from Proto-West Germanic *togōn, from Proto-Germanic *tugōną, from Proto-Indo-European *dewk-.
See also Middle High German zogen, German ziehen, Dutch tijgen, Old Norse toga.

(running, cycling, motor racing, etc.) To aid someone behind by shielding them from wind resistance.


tow

On Saturday, Vettel was very unhappy with Leclerc's failure to work out a way through the traffic and give him a tow for the second runs in qualifying, as had been agreed.

2019 September 8, Andrew Benson, BBC Sport:

(motor racing) A speed increase given by driving in front of another car on a straight, which causes a slipstream for the car behind.


bubble position

en-noun

bubble position (plural bubble positions)

Smith is in the bubble position, having barely beaten out Jones for the last spot.

(motor racing) The bottom qualifying position in a race, on the outside of the last row at the starting line.


qualifying position

qualifying position (plural qualifying positions)

(motor racing) The position given at the start of a race, ranked from most favorable to least favorable, awarded according to the times achieved during qualification.

poziție de calificare

in auto racing: the position given at the start of a race


on the bubble

US, late 20th century, from Indiana motor racing.

Smith was on the bubble but lost out when Jones was faster by a tenth of a second.

(motor racing) Holding the last qualifying position with qualification still in progress, and thus liable to lose that position.


pole position

pole position (countable and uncountable, plural pole positions)

See pole position § Origin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

pedia

Smith once again enjoys the pole position.

(motor racing) The top qualifying position for a race, on the inside of the front row at the starting line.


pole position

Unadapted borrowing from English pole position.

ubor

(motor racing, also figurative) pole position (both senses)


nerf

en-verb

nerf (third-person singular simple present nerfs, present participle nerfing, simple past and past participle nerfed)

nerfs (present singular third-person)
nerfing (participle present)
nerfed (participle past)
nerfed (past)

A racer will often nerf another as a psychological tactic.

"The crazy fool!" Ricky exclaimed. "Nerfing me!"

1953, Henry Gregor Felsen, Street Rod, Random House, page 129:

(motor racing, transitive) To bump lightly, whether accidentally or purposefully.


flip a bitch

flip a bitch (third-person singular simple present flips a bitch, present participle flipping a bitch, simple past and past participle flipped a bitch)

flips a bitch (present singular third-person)
flipping a bitch (participle present)
flipped a bitch (participle past)
flipped a bitch (past)

That's a cop up there! Flip a bitch and see if we can lose 'em.

I shut the door and concentrated on the checklist so that I could turn the aircrafts^([sic]) electrical system on and check the gauges for fuel or anything out of the ordinary. Every few seconds I felt the aircraft tug, as John towed the aircraft and I to the pumps. After checking the gauges, I was happy to find that both wing tanks were full, so I opened up the door, jumped out and ran ahead to tell John to flip a bitch and pull the bird back to the tower. At the tower I used the aircraft checklist to do a walk around inspection.

2010, J. L. Bourne, Day By Day Armageddon, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

“Can you flip a bitch and swing by the airport to pick me up?” It took me a minute to register what she was saying. “You're in Georgia?” Twisting around from the front seat, Griffin echoed my question.

2013, S.C. Stephens, Reckless, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

(US, slang, vulgar, automotive) To make a rapid and illegal U-turn.


pit stop

Alonso and Ferrari may well privately regret the decision to delay their second pit stop until two laps after Maldonado made his on the 24th of 66 laps.

2012 May 13, Andrew Benson, “Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win”, in BBC Sport:

(motor racing) A stop made during an automobile race at the pit to refuel and perform other periodic maintenance on the vehicle.


toaster

→ French: toasteur

→ German: Toaster

→ Hebrew: טוסטר

ja-r

トースター (tōsutā)

→ Japanese: トースター (tōsutā)

→ Korean: 토스터 (toseuteo)

→ Polish: toster

→ Russian: то́стер (tóstɛr)

From toast + -er (agent noun suffix) or -er (patient suffix).

(automotive, informal, derogatory) Any of several small, box-like automobiles exemplified by the Scion xB and Honda Element.


submarine

en-verb

submarine (third-person singular simple present submarines, present participle submarining, simple past and past participle submarined)

submarines (present singular third-person)
submarining (participle present)
submarined (participle past)
submarined (past)

The seatback should always be up while driving so that the occupant doesn't submarine and potentially suffer severe internal injury.

(intransitive, automotive) To slide forwards underneath one's seat belt (during a crash or sudden stop).


starter

The colour-light signals admitting directly to the platforms and the inner starters (for short-length departures well up the platforms) are two-aspect, while those immediately beyond them are three-aspect, but elsewhere four-aspect signals have been installed in association with route indicators.

1961 March, “The new Glasgow Central signalbox”, in Trains Illustrated, page 179:

(rail transport) A railway signal controlling the starting of trains from a station or some other location, more fully called a starter signal or starting signal.


starter

starteren (definite singular)
startere (indefinite plural)
starterne (definite plural)


velocidad

Borrowed from Latin vēlōcitātem. By surface analysis, veloz + -idad.


slushbox

From slush + box, in reference to the fluid-coupling action of the torque converter. A popular notion portrays this action as "slushing around" that involves greater power losses than with manual transmissions, although the notion is a comic exaggeration.

The slushbox did nothing to improve an already sluggish response.

Slushboxes are taking over the scrub. Once scorned in the bush, the automatic gearbox today is more widely accepted in traditional four-wheel drive wagons. "Bush bashers go auto." The Sunday Telegraph. 2002 July 21. Pg. A05.

automatic transmission
automatic transmission#English

(slang, automotive) Synonym of automatic transmission.


band

nl-noun

band m (plural banden, diminutive bandje n)

banden (plural)
bandje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: band

Negerhollands: band

→ Caribbean Javanese: ban

→ Indonesian: ban

→ Petjo: ban

→ Papiamentu: bant, banchi

→ Sranan Tongo: banti

→ Aukan: banti

→ Caribbean Hindustani: banti

→ Caribbean Javanese: banti (dated)

→ Saramaccan: bánti

Inherited from Middle Dutch bant, from Old Dutch *band, from Proto-West Germanic *band, from Proto-Germanic *bandą. Compare Old High German bant, pant n, Old Saxon band, Old Frisian band n (and a closely related form Old English bænd, bend with umlaut from *bandiz). A verbal noun with ablaut to binden (“to bind”).

(physics) interval relating to frequency or wavelength in electromagnetic phenomena

range of energy levels in a solid state material


corn

head

corn m (genitive singular coirn, nominative plural coirn)

coirn (genitive singular)
coirn (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
corn (indefinite singular)
coirn (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a choirn (indefinite singular)
a chorna (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
coirn (indefinite singular)
corn (indefinite plural)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an corn (definite singular)
na coirn (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an choirn (definite singular)
na gcorn (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an gcorn (definite singular)
don chorn (definite singular)
leis na coirn (definite plural)

Inherited from Old Irish corn (“drinking horn, goblet; trumpet, horn; curl”), from Latin cornū.


moteur

→ Persian: موتور (motor)

Borrowed from Latin mōtor. Displaced Old French mouveur.

moteur de recherche


touring car

(motor racing) A type of race car based on a modified production car, that is a sedan or saloon car.


regen

en-noun

regen (countable and uncountable, plural regens)

regenerative braking
regenerative braking#English

(uncountable, rail transport, automotive) Short for regenerative braking.


coupe

Borrowed from French coupe. Doublet of cup, hive, and keeve.

(US, Canada, automotive) A car with two doors (variant of coupé).


limousine

→ Dutch: limousine

→ English: limousine

→ German: Limousine

desc

→ Portuguese: limusine, limusina, limousine

→ Russian: лимузи́н (limuzín) (see there for further descendants)

→ Turkish: limuzin

From the name of the former French region Limousin, from Limoges. The naming of the car is sometimes attributed to Limoges-born engineer Charles Jeantaud.


beater

From Middle English beter, betere, bettere, from Old English bēatere (“a beater; boxer, fighter; champion”), equivalent to beat + -er. Related to beetle (“a type of mallet”).

inh

Packed merrily into my friends’ beater, an old Ford Pinto, we headed into Jennings, a mostly Black North St. Louis County community heavily patrolled by white officers, to pick up one more college friend.

2020 July 14, Ron Stodghill, “Black Behind the Wheel”, in New York Times:

(US, informal) An old or dilapidated automobile in poor operating condition.

wrak

an automobile in poor operating condition


hooter

Suddenly, far down and beyond the toun there came a screech as the morning grew, a screech like an hungered beast in pain. The hooters were blowing in the Segget Mills.

1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe, page 34:

When the right-away was given, Driver Gibson would give a sonorous blast on Cardean's deep-toned hooter, and amid a flurry of swirling steam the train would move majestically out, with nearly half the city of Carlisle—or so it would appear—as onlookers on the platform.

1945 May and June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 152:

A chime whistle, presented to the L.M.S.R. by American model railway enthusiasts in 1939, is installed now as a works hooter at Crewe Works, as its height precludes its use on a British locomotive.

1946 September and October, “Notes and News: Locomotive Whistle Gift”, in Railway Magazine, page 322:

(British) A siren or steam whistle, especially one in a factory and used to indicate the beginning or the end of a working day or shift.


folle

Borrowed from Latin follem (“bellows”), through the figurative sense of “airhead”.

(automotive) idle, neutral (of a gear wheel)


petrolhead

(colloquial) A person who is overly reliant on the use of their car, resisting any suggestion to use other means of transport.

car brain

person overly reliant on use of their car


cabriolet

Of late years, cabriolets, and English stanhopes, and tilburys, have been introduced into St. Petersburgh; but the real national carriage for the town is the Droshky.

1829, Augustus Bozzi Granville, St. Petersburgh, a journal of travels to and from that capital:

"I think," said Isabella, startling Louisa, who had been watching the cabriolet down the street, "that Lady Penrhyn might have asked you to go with mamma."

1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 72:

(originally) A light two- or four-wheeled carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse.

кабриолет

a light carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse


cabriolet

Unadapted borrowing from French cabriolet, from Italian cabriola.


odometer

/oʊˈdɑːmətɚ/

From French odomètre, from Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós, “road, path, way”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”) (equivalent to + -meter).

uder

A wheel used by surveyors, which registers distance traveled.


motorcar

→ Maori: motokā

→ Swahili: motokaa

→ Luo: mtoka, mtokaa

(rail transport, US) A self-propelled railway vehicle.


driver's license

en-noun

driver's license (plural driver's licenses)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-driver's license.wav

(American spelling) A document issued to a specific person by a government authority, permitting this person to drive one or more classes of motor vehicle on public roads and highways, often used as an identification document.

rybewys

documenting permitting a person to drive


mag

brand new tires and factory-original mags

(colloquial, automotive) Ellipsis of mag wheel.


fifth gear

manual transmission
manual transmission#English

The fifth of the gears of a transmission; in many motor vehicles built in the 1970s or later, it is the top gear, being the overdrive gear, although in the 21st century some vehicles have transmissions with yet more gears (e.g., 6, 7, 8), among both manual transmissions and automatic transmissions.


trolejbus

pl-noun

trolejbus m inan (related adjective trolejbusowy)

trolejbusowy (adjective)
trolejbus (nominative singular)
trolejbusy (nominative plural)
trolejbusu (genitive singular)
trolejbusów (genitive plural)
trolejbusowi (dative singular)
trolejbusom (dative plural)
trolejbus (accusative singular)
trolejbusy (accusative plural)
trolejbusem (instrumental singular)
trolejbusami (instrumental plural)
trolejbusie (locative singular)
trolejbusach (locative plural)
trolejbusie (singular vocative)
trolejbusy (plural vocative)

trolley bus (bus, powered via overhead electric cables, that does not run on tracks)


gas station

(Canada, US, New Zealand, Philippines) filling station / petrol station; an establishment which sells gasoline (petrol) and often also diesel

pompstasie

an establishment which sells gasoline to pump directly into a car


tranny

en-noun

tranny (countable and uncountable, plural trannies)

All are shortened forms of the indicated terms + -y.

Other incidents where the tranny suddenly locks up in high gear and requires that the car be restarted to return to normal.

2012, Phil Edmonston, Lemon-Aid Used Cars and Trucks 2012–2013:

(colloquial, automotive) A vehicle's transmission.


taxi

Unadapted borrowing from French taxi. First attested in the 20th century.

ref

Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “taxi”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN

(colloquial) taxi (vehicle that may be hired for single journeys by members of the public, driven by a taxi driver)


car carrier

A special ship that transports cars in a garage with ambient control and ventilation.


driver

desctree

→ Japanese: ドライバー (doraibā)
→ Hakka: 多拉把 (tô-lai-pá, tô-lai-pà, tò-lái-pà)
→ Hokkien: 螺賴把／螺赖把 (lo͘-lài-bà)

→ Hokkien: 嚦峇／呖峇 (lē-bā)

→ Scottish Gaelic: draibhear

From Middle English drivere, dryvere, dryvare, equivalent to drive + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Drieuwer (“driver”), Dutch drijver (“driver”), German Low German Driever (“driver”), German Treiber (“driver”).

(nautical) a kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the same spars.


4x2 4-wheel vehicle with 2-wheel-drive(2WD)

(automotive) A four-wheel-drive vehicle with a four-speed transmission.

(automotive) A four-wheel vehicle with four-wheel drive.

(automotive, by extension) Any vehicle with four-wheel drive.


Cinquante centimètres d’eau suffisent à entraîner même les plus gros 4x4, très nombreux dans ces pays, en principe pour rouler dans les sables du désert, mais en fait pour dominer sur l’asphalte.

2018 November 23, “Dans les pays du Golfe, djellabas trempées et 4x4 noyés [In the states of the Persian Gulf, soaked djellabas and drowned 4x4]”, in Libération:

Fifty centimetres of water is enough to drag even the biggest 4x4, most common in these countries, normally designed to drive in the sand of the desert but actually used to dominate the asphalt.


wishbone

(automotive) A suspension component similar in shape to a chicken wishbone.


scuttle

Borrowed from Middle French escoutille (compare French écoutille), from Old Norse skaut (“corner of a cloth, of a sail”), or alternatively from Spanish escotilla, ultimately from Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍄𐍃 (skauts, “projecting edge, fringe”), from Proto-Germanic *skautaz (“corner; wedge; lap”). Compare German Schoß, Old English sċēat. More at sheet.

der

(automotive) A drained trough between the windscreen and bonnet of a motor vehicle, forming the intake to the heating/air-conditioning system, often also containing the windscreen wiper motor.

(automotive) By extension, the bulkhead at the front of the passenger compartment.


doughnut

→ Afrikaans: donut, doughnut

→ Albanian: donut

→ Arabic: دُونَات (dūnāt)

Hijazi Arabic: دونت (dōnat)

→ Bengali: ডোনাট (ḍōnaṭ)

→ Bulgarian: донът (donǎt)

→ Burmese: ဒိုးနပ် (dui:nap)

→ Catalan: dònut

→ Cebuano: donut

→ Chinese:

desc

Cantonese: 多甩 (do¹ lat¹), 冬甩 (dung¹ lat¹)

Mandarin: 多拿滋 (duōnázī)

→ Danish: donut

→ Dutch: donut

→ French: donut

→ German: Donut, Doughnut

→ Hindi: डोनट (ḍonaṭ)

→ Indonesian: donat

→ Irish: taoschnó (calque)

→ Japanese: ドーナツ (dōnatsu), ドーナッツ (dōnattsu)

→ Korean: 도넛 (doneot), (nonstandard spellings) 도나스 (donaseu), 도너스 (doneoseu), 도너츠 (doneocheu), 도우넛 (douneot)

→ Malay: donat

→ Maori: tōnati

→ Marshallese: tonaaj (via plural); to̧nōt

→ Persian: دونات (donât)

→ Portuguese: dónute, dônute (Brazil), donut (unadapted spelling)

→ Spanish: dona; dónat, dónut, donut

→ Swedish: donut

→ Tagalog: donat

→ Tausug: dunat

→ Thai: โดนัต (doo-nát), โดนัท (doo-nát) — popular spelling

→ Turkish: donut

→ Urdu: ڈونٹ (ḍonaṭ)

→ Yiddish: דאָנאַט (donat)

From dough + nut, 1809 because originally small, nut-sized balls of fried dough, or, more likely, from nut in the earlier sense of "small rounded cake or cookie", with the toroidal shape becoming common in the twentieth century. First attested in Knickerbocker’s History of New York, by Washington Irving, 1809.

take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut

He put on the life jacket and began paddling around. A doughnut life raft popped up out of the ocean in front of him.

1996, John Long, Close Shaves: Classic Stories on the Edge, page 2:

(figuratively) Any object in the shape of a torus.

Any object in the shape of a torus.
A circular life raft.


golf

golf (nominative singular)
golfy (nominative plural)
golfa (genitive singular)
golfów (genitive plural)
golfowi (dative singular)
golfom (dative plural)
golfa (accusative singular)
golfy (accusative plural)
golfem (instrumental singular)
golfami (instrumental plural)
golfie (locative singular)
golfach (locative plural)
golfie (singular vocative)
golfy (plural vocative)

Borrowed from German Volkswagen Golf, a genericized trademark.


place

en-verb

place (third-person singular simple present places, present participle placing, simple past and past participle placed)

places (present singular third-person)
placing (participle present)
placed (participle past)
placed (past)
place (infinitive)

From Middle English placen, from the noun (see above).

classificar-se

passive: to rank at (a certain position)

pleace

some English dialects: 18th–19th centuries; Scots: until the 17th century

In the third race: Aces Up won, paying eight dollars; Blarney Stone placed, paying three dollars; and Cinnamon showed, paying five dollars.

(ergative) To earn a given spot in a competition; to rank at a certain position ((often followed by an ordinal)).

(intransitive, motor racing) To finish second, especially of horses or dogs.


four-wheel drive
four-wheel drive#English

(automotive) Initialism of four-wheel drive.


stripe

From Middle English stripe, strype, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German strîpe, from Proto-West Germanic *strīpā, *strīpō, from Proto-Germanic *strīpô. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Striepe (“stripe, strip”), West Frisian stripe (“stripe”), Dutch streep (“stripe”), German Low German Striepe, Striep, Streep (“stripe”), German Streifen (“stripe, strip, band”), Danish stribe (“stripe”).

cog

(motor racing, slang) The start/finish line.


jack-knife

en-verb

jack-knife (third-person singular simple present jack-knifes, present participle jack-knifing, simple past and past participle jack-knifed)

jack-knifes (present singular third-person)
jack-knifing (participle present)
jack-knifed (participle past)
jack-knifed (past)

jackknife

Note: the two spellings appear roughly equally common.

Before I knew what was happening, I'd jack-knifed the truck.

Before I knew what was happening, I'd jack-knifed.

(colloquial) To cause a semi-trailer truck to fold like a jackknife in a traffic accident.


LT

en-noun

LT (countable and uncountable, plural LTs)

(automotive) A designation for a trim level within a model of trucks; it denotes low-end (base model) features.


parabrisas

Verb-object compound, composed of para (“to stop”) + brisas (“breezes”). Compare French pare-brise.


soft

From Middle English softe, from Old English sōfte, alteration of earlier sēfte (“soft”), from Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī) (“level, even, smooth, soft, gentle”) (compare *sōmiz (“agreeable, fitting”)), from Proto-Indo-European *semptio-, *semtio-, from *sem- (“one, whole”). Cognate with West Frisian sêft (“gentle; soft”), Dutch zacht (“soft”), German Low German sacht (“soft”), German sanft (“soft, yielding”), Old Norse sœmr (“agreeable, fitting”), samr (“same”). More at seem, same.

inh

(motor racing) Ellipsis of soft tyre. (A tyre whose compound is softer than mediums, and harder than supersofts.)


tight

en-adj

tight (comparative tighter, superlative tightest)

tighter (comparative)
tightest (superlative)

baggy

firmly held together; of clothing or other material

slack

antonym(s) of “well-rehearsed and accurate”

From Middle English tight, tyght, tyȝt, tiht, variants of thight, thiht, from Old English *þiht, *þīht (attested in meteþiht), from Proto-West Germanic *þį̄ht(ī), from Proto-Germanic *þinhtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *tenkt- (“dense, thick, tight”), from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, pull”).
Cognate with Scots ticht, West Frisian ticht, Danish tæt, Icelandic þéttur (“dense”), Norwegian tett, Swedish tät, Dutch dicht (“dense”), German dicht (“dense”).
The current form with t- /t/ rather than etymologically-expected th- /θ/ arose in Middle English under the influence of the etymologically-unrelated verbs tighten and tight.

der

(US, slang, motor racing) With understeer, primarily used to describe NASCAR stock cars.


日産

zh-l

日產／日产 (Rìchǎn)

→ Chinese: 日產／日产 (Rìchǎn)


pala

Borrowed from Latin pāla (“shovel, bezel”). Doublet of pá.


carb

This is what controls the flow of fuel into the carb.

(informal) Clipping of carburettor / carburetor.


rich

en-adj

rich (comparative richer or more rich, superlative richest or most rich)

richer (comparative)
more rich (comparative)
richest (superlative)
most rich (superlative)

From Middle English riche (“strong, powerful, rich”), from Old English rīċe (“powerful, mighty, great, high-ranking, rich, wealthy, strong, potent”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīkī (“powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīkijaz (“kingly, powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīks (“king, ruler”), an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *rīxs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs. Reinforced by Old French riche, from the same West Germanic source.

inh

it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God

a rich treasury; a rich entertainment; a rich crop

rich in fiber; rich in traditions

Tho' my Date of mortal Life be short, it shall be glorious; / Each minute shall be rich in some great action.

The gorgeous East with richest hand / Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold.

1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

For countries with rich culinary traditions that date back to the Aztecs and Incas, Mexico and Peru have developed quite a taste for modern food fashions. Mexicans quaff more fizzy drinks than any other country; Peru has the highest density of fast-food joints in the world.

2013 July 27, “Battle of the bulge”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8846:

Sham Shui Po might be one of Hong Kong’s poorest neighbourhoods but it has a rich immigrant history and a glut of fantastic street-food joints.

2021 August 18, Lee Cobaj, “Best things to do in Hong Kong”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-10-25:

Plentiful, abounding, abundant, fulfilling.

A skilled multimedia developer will have no problems adding interactive video and audio into existing rich media web pages.

2002, David Austerberry, The Technology of Video and Audio Streaming:

Some rich text email messages contain formatting information that's best viewed with Microsoft Word.

2003, Patricia Cardoza, Patricia DiGiacomo, Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003:

But what did matter was that the new web platform provided a rich experience.

2008, Aaron Newman, Adam Steinberg, Jeremy Thomas, Enterprise 2.0 Implementation:

(computing) Elaborate, having complex formatting, multimedia, or depth of interaction.

The ETF is trading rich to NAV right now; we can arb this by selling the ETF and buying the underlying constituents.

(finance) Trading at a price level which is high relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.


shield

From Middle English scheld, shelde, from Old English scield (“shield”), from Proto-West Germanic *skeldu, from Proto-Germanic *skelduz (“shield”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“cut, split”). Cognate with West Frisian skyld, Dutch schild (“shield”), German Schild (“shield”), Danish skjold (“shield”), Icelandic skjöldur (“shield”) and Faroese skjøldur (“shield”).
Compare Latin scūtum (“shield”), Irish sciath (“shield”), Latgalian škīda (“shield”), Lithuanian skydas (“shield”), Russian щит (ščit, “shield”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover, protect”), *skey- (“to cut, split”).

noncog

(automotive, British English) Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision


freno

→ Bikol Central: preno

→ Cebuano: preno

→ Magdalena Peñasco Mixtec: frenu

→ Southeastern Tepehuan: piriiñ

→ Tagalog: preno

Inherited from Latin frēnum. Cognate with Portuguese freio and French frein.

(automotive) brake (device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel or vehicle)


phaeton

(automotive) a large open touring motorcar with a folding top


rebore

However, any increase in capacity is useful and, if an engine is worn and needs a rebore, it's worth considering boring to a near maximum size rather than simply having it bored to the next oversize.

2005, Daniel Stapleton, How to Plan and Build a Fast Road Car, page 14:

(automotive) The process of modifying the bore of an engine.


camber

From Old French cambre (“bent”), from Latin camurum, from camur (“arched”).

(automotive) The alignment on the roll axis of the wheels of a road vehicle, where positive camber signifies that the wheels are closer together at the bottom than the top.


junker

Borrowed from German Junker, from Middle High German juncherre (“young lord; not yet knighted nobleman”). Compare younker.

der

Professors of philosophy and science carrying high the patriotic banner of Kultur and culture gloried in the system of compulsory, universal, military service, first made in Germany exulted in the degrading, vicious process of training by which the individual is hypnotized into submission to a brutal organization of military junkers, hallowed by the name of state and Fatherland, it was the darkest period in the history of mankind.

1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:

The dice are, however, weighted against them, so long as the present generation of Junkers and officials survives.

1921 October, Maxwell H. H. Macartney, “An Ex-Enemy in Berlin to-Day”, in The Atlantic:

A young German noble or squire, especially a member of the aristocratic party in Prussia, stereotyped with narrow-minded militaristic and authoritarian attitudes.


gaiter

Borrowed from French guêtre, from Middle French guiestres, guestes pl, from Old French *gueste, from Frankish *wastiju, from Proto-Germanic *wastijō (“garment; dress”).
Cognate with Middle High German wester (“a child's chrisom-cloth”), Middle High German westebarn (“godchild”), Old English wæstling (“a coverlet”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌹 (wasti, “garment; dress”).

cog

(automotive) A protective flexible sleeve covering a moving part, intended to keep the part clean.


cowl

en-verb

cowl (third-person singular simple present cowls, present participle cowling, simple past and past participle cowled)

cowls (present singular third-person)
cowling (participle present)
cowled (participle past)
cowled (past)

From Middle English coule, from Old English cūle, from earlier cugele (“hood, cowl”), from Ecclesiastical Latin cuculla (“monk's cowl”), from Latin cucullus (“hood”), of uncertain origin. Doublet of cagoule.

der

COWL, scrape together. "Cowlin t'cinders up."

1865, William Stott Banks, Wakefield Words, page 17:


faro

From Latin pharus, from Ancient Greek φάρος (pháros).


jalopy

Unknown. Perhaps from Jalapa, Mexico (now Xalapa), to whose scrapyards used cars were often sent from New Orleans starting in the 1920s. First recorded written use in 1924.

Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he was actually born on the road, when his parents were passing through Salt Lake City in 1926, in a jalopy, on their way to Los Angeles.

1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 1, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:

There's only a rough track and I doubt if that jalopy of yours will make it.

2003, Terrance Dicks, Barry Letts, chapter 22, in Deadly Reunion:

Through most of those early years of restless travel, he dragged his two children and his long-suffering wife, Maryann[…] behind him like tin cans tied to the bumper of a jalopy that no car dealer in his right mind would take in trade.

2009 November 20, Stephen King, “Raymond Carver’s Life and Stories”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(US, dated) An old, dilapidated or unpretentious automobile.

รถเก่าแก่

rt̄h kèā kæ̀


klaxon

Borrowed from English klaxon. Genericized trademark.


winker

From wink (“blinking of only one eye”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).

silmäniskijä

A thing which is used to wink with, or which winks.

(automotive, informal) Synonym of turn signal (“each of the flashing lights on each side of a vehicle which is used to indicate that the vehicle is moving left or right”); a blinker, an indicator.


instrumentation

en-noun

instrumentation (countable and uncountable, plural instrumentations)

The car's instrumentation included fuel, temperature, voltimeter and oil pressure gauges, along with a speedometer and tachometer.

(automotive) On a vehicle, dashboard gauges monitoring engine functions and performance, along with other essential functions.


char

Inherited from Old French char, from Latin carrus, a loan from Transalpine Gaulish. Doublet of car (“coach”), a borrowing from English.


drift

en-verb

drift (third-person singular simple present drifts, present participle drifting, simple past and past participle drifted)

drifts (present singular third-person)
drifting (participle present)
drifted (participle past)
drifted (past)

From Middle English drift, dryft (“act of driving, drove, shower of rain or snow, impulse”), from Old English *drift (“drift”), from Proto-Germanic *driftiz (“drift”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (“to drive, push”). Equivalent to drive + -t; cognate with North Frisian drift (“drift”), Saterland Frisian Drift (“current, flow, stream, drift”), Dutch drift (“drift, passion, urge”), German Drift (“drift”) and Trift (“drove, pasture”), Danish drift (“impulse, instinct”), Swedish drift (“impulse, instinct”), Icelandic drift (“drift, snow-drift”).

cog

(automotive) To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. See Drifting (motorsport).

driftata

to oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction


gap

en-verb

gap (third-person singular simple present gaps, present participle gapping, simple past and past participle gapped)

gaps (present singular third-person)
gapping (participle present)
gapped (participle past)
gapped (past)

From Middle English gap, gappe, from Old Norse gap (“an empty space, gap, chasm”), from gapa (“to gape, scream”), from Proto-Germanic *gapōną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂- (“to open wide, gape”). Related to Danish gab (“an expanse, space, gap”), Old English ġeap (“open space, expanse”); compare English gape.

cog

Honestly K&C could release today with like a bit more SOT buffs and they'd probably still gap a lot of the game

2022 May 4, u/jhawk1117, “Two units that were really ahead of their time”, in Reddit, r/DBZDokkanBattle, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

sometimes dril gets absolutely gapped by average ukraine war reddit comments

2023 May 23, @slime_machine, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

Imagine street racing someone then suddenly both of you get gapped by a slammed tiger tank 😂 AKA der "Drippenwagen"

2023 December 19, @kommanderkarl, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

"Not really the reason his team lost" is still not showing up by Chovy's standarts. Like in a way you're downplaying how good this guy has been domestically the last 3-4 years. He is comfortably the best player in the league and is utterly gapping every other midlaner in the league series after series, year after year.

2024 March 9, u/djpain20, “T1 vs. Gen.G / LCK 2024 Spring - Week 7 / Post-Match Discussion”, in Reddit, r/leagueoflegends, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

My sports car gets gapped by families of 5 in these all the time and they don't even know we're racing

2024 May 14, u/DM-Me-Your_Titties, “Kia reveals mid-life update to EV6.”, in Reddit, r/cars, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

When you avoid getting buffed next patch due to your players gapping

2024 July 6, @Rubiflorid, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

(transitive, intransitive, slang, especially video games, motor racing) To surpass (someone or something) by a considerable margin.


swang

en-verb

swang (third-person singular simple present swangs, present participle swanging, simple past and past participle swanged)

swangs (present singular third-person)
swanging (participle present)
swanged (participle past)
swanged (past)

Turn on my blinker light and then I swang it slow

2005, Chamillionaire (featuring Krayzie Bone), "Ridin'", The Sound of Revenge

I'mma swang, I'mma swing my slab lean to the left

2006, Trae (featuring Pimp C and Big Hawk), "Swang", Restless

Caine pulled off burning rubber and swanging side to side.

2010, G. Washington, Karma from the Cradle to the Street, Xlibris, published 2010, →ISBN, page 118:

(African-American Vernacular, slang) To steer one's vehicle from side to side while driving.


core

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

(automotive, machinery, aviation, marine) A deposit paid by the purchaser of a rebuilt part, to be refunded on return of a used, rebuildable part, or the returned rebuildable part itself.


rally

From Middle French rallier (French rallier), from Old French ralier, from Latin prefix re- + ad + ligare (“to bind; to ally”).

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-rally.wav

(motor racing) An event in which competitors drive through a series of timed special stages at intervals. The winner is the driver who completes all stages with the shortest cumulative time.


rally

rally (absolutive indefinite)
rallya (absolutive indefinite singular)
rallyak (absolutive indefinite plural)
rallyk (ergative indefinite)
rallyak (ergative indefinite singular)
rallyek (ergative indefinite plural)
rallyri (dative indefinite)
rallyari (dative indefinite singular)
rallyei (dative indefinite plural)
rallyren (genitive indefinite)
rallyaren (genitive indefinite singular)
rallyen (genitive indefinite plural)
rallyrekin (comitative indefinite)
rallyarekin (comitative indefinite singular)
rallyekin (comitative indefinite plural)
rallyrengatik (causative indefinite)
rallyarengatik (causative indefinite singular)
rallyengatik (causative indefinite plural)
rallyrentzat (benefactive indefinite)
rallyarentzat (benefactive indefinite singular)
rallyentzat (benefactive indefinite plural)
rallyz (indefinite instrumental)
rallyaz (indefinite instrumental singular)
rallyez (indefinite instrumental plural)
rallytan (indefinite inessive)
rallyan (indefinite inessive singular)
rallyetan (indefinite inessive plural)
rallytako (indefinite locative)
rallyko (indefinite locative singular)
rallyetako (indefinite locative plural)
rallytara (allative indefinite)
rallyra (allative indefinite singular)
rallyetara (allative indefinite plural)
rallytaraino (indefinite terminative)
rallyraino (indefinite singular terminative)
rallyetaraino (indefinite plural terminative)
rallytarantz (directive indefinite)
rallyrantz (directive indefinite singular)
rallyetarantz (directive indefinite plural)
rallytarako (destinative indefinite)
rallyrako (destinative indefinite singular)
rallyetarako (destinative indefinite plural)
rallytatik (ablative indefinite)
rallytik (ablative indefinite singular)
rallyetatik (ablative indefinite plural)
rallyrik (indefinite partitive)
rallytzat (indefinite prolative)

Borrowed from Spanish rally, from English rally.


rally

rally (indefinite nominative singular)
rallys (genitive indefinite singular)
rallyt (definite nominative singular)
rallyts (definite genitive singular)
rallyn (indefinite nominative plural)
rallyns (genitive indefinite plural)
rallyna (definite nominative plural)
rallynas (definite genitive plural)


stagger

From Middle English stageren, stakeren, from Old Norse stakra (“to push, stagger”). Cognate with dialectal Danish stagre.

(motor racing) The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners.


vignette

First attested in 1751. From French vignette, diminutive of vigne (“vine”), from Latin vīnea, from vīnum (“wine”). Replaced earlier Middle English vynet.

In order to drive on Bulgarian roads outside Sofia you'll need to purchase a vignette which must be displayed in the windscreen.

2008, Sofia In Your Pocket, In Your Pocket, →ISBN, page 7:

(automotive) A small sticker affixed to a vehicle windscreen to indicate that tolls have been paid.


tint

Alteration of earlier tinct, influenced by French teinte (“tint”), from Latin tinctus (“dyed”), past participle of verb tingō (“tinge”). Doublet of tent (“kind of red wine”). Cognate with Dutch tint, Estonian tint, French teinte, German Tinte, Hungarian tinta, Italian tinta, Luxembourgish Tintin, Portuguese tinta, and Spanish tinta.

About an hour later, she noticed an all black Phantom with tints and chrome rims riding slowly through the car lot.

2010, Rochelle Magee, No Witnesses: A Perilous Journey, page 36:

I'd watch as cars marched by like a line of ants. Cars with those cool hydraulics. Cars with tints so dark, you couldn't see anything inside.

2021, Carol Park, Memoir of a Cashier: Korean Americans, Racism, and Riots:

(automotive, informal) A vehicle window that has been darkened to conceal the occupant.


IRL

(motor racing) Initialism of Indy Racing League.


flathead

(plural only "flatheads", automotive) A type of engine that has the valves placed in the engine block beside the piston, instead of in the cylinder head, as in an overhead valve engine.


DMV

Coordinate term: Delmarva

District of Columbia
District of Columbia

(US) The region made up of the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia.


SF

Super Formula
w:en:Super Formula Championship

(motor racing) Initialism of Super Formula.


SF

スーパーフォーミュラ スーパーフォーミュラ#Japanese

(motor racing) SF: Abbreviation of スーパーフォーミュラ (“Super Formula”).


track

→ Kashubian: trak (Canada)

From Middle English trak, tracke, from Old French trac (“track of horses, trail, trace”), of uncertain origin. Likely from a Germanic source, either Old Norse traðk ("a track; path; trodden spot"; > Icelandic traðk (“a track; path; tread”), Faroese traðk (“track; tracks”), Norwegian tråkke (“to trample”)) or from Middle Dutch trec, *trac, treck ("line, row, series"; > Dutch trek (“a draft; feature; trait; groove; expedition”)), German Low German Treck (“a draught; movement; passage; flow”). See tread, trek.

gloss

"line, row, series"; > Dutch <i class="Latn mention" lang="nl">trek</i> (“a draft; feature; trait; groove; expedition”)

cog

(automotive) The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree.

caterpillar track
caterpillar track#English

(automotive) Short for caterpillar track.


crunch

en-verb

crunch (third-person singular simple present crunches, present participle crunching, simple past and past participle crunched)

crunches (present singular third-person)
crunching (participle present)
crunched (participle past)
crunched (past)

From earlier craunch, cranch, of imitative origin.

جَرَشَ

to crush something with a noisy crackling sound

(automotive, transitive) To cause the gears to emit a crunching sound by releasing the clutch before the gears are properly synchronised.


lap

lap (third-person singular simple present laps, present participle lapping, simple past and past participle lapped or (archaic) lapt)

laps (present singular third-person)
lapping (participle present)
lapped (participle past)
lapped (past)
lapt (archaic participle past)
lapt (archaic past)

From Middle English lappen (“to fold, wrap”) from earlier wlappen (“to fold, wrap”), from Old English *wlappan, *wlæppan, *wlappian (“to wrap”), from Proto-Germanic *wlapp-, *wrapp- (“to wrap, fold, roll up, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to bend, turn”).
Cognate with Middle Dutch lappen (“to wrap up, embrace”), dialectal Danish vravle (“to wind”), Old Italian goluppare (“to wrap, fold up”) (from Germanic). Doublet of wrap. Also related to envelop, develop.
The sense of "to get a lap ahead (of someone) on a track" is from 1847, on notion of "overlapping." The noun meaning "a turn around a track" (1861) is from this sense.

cog

en:overtake race competitors substantially

(transitive, sports, motor racing) To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.

ohittaa kierroksella

sports, motor racing: to overtake a straggler in a race


banger

→ Estonian: bänger

→ Finnish: bängeri

From bang + -er. The sausages were so called because of their excess water content and impervious skin, leading to the risk of explosion if not punctured before cooking.

A thing or person which bangs, in any sense.

(automotive, slang) An old, worn-out car. From a stereotypical one backfiring, making banging noises.

He drives a little four-banger to work.

(US, automotive, slang) A car or an engine; referring to the cylinders of an engine in a car. From the explosive bangs on every cylinder firing.


flak

pl-noun

flak m inan (diminutive flaczek, related adjective flakowy)

flaczek (diminutive)
flakowy (adjective)
flak (nominative singular)
flaki (nominative plural)
flaka (genitive singular)
flaków (genitive plural)
flakowi (dative singular)
flakom (dative plural)
flak (accusative singular)
flaki (accusative plural)
flakiem (instrumental singular)
flakami (instrumental plural)
flaku (locative singular)
flakach (locative plural)
flaku (singular vocative)
flaki (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Middle High German vlëcke.

sausage casing made from animal intestine

(colloquial or dialectal, Żywiec, chiefly in the plural, of human anatomy) entrails, guts, innards, intestines, viscera (internal organs of the abdominal and thoracic cavities)


Clio

Fred loved to take his Clio for a spin.

(automotive) A model of car manufactured by Renault.


SUV

SUV m inan or (animal-not-person canonical masculine)
SUV (nominative singular)
SUV-y (nominative plural)
SUV-a (genitive singular)
SUV-ów (genitive plural)
SUV-owi (dative singular)
SUV-om (dative plural)
SUV (accusative singular)
SUV-a (accusative singular)
SUV-y (accusative plural)
SUV-em (instrumental singular)
SUV-ami (instrumental plural)
SUV-ie (locative singular)
SUV-ach (locative plural)
SUV-ie (singular vocative)
SUV-y (plural vocative)

Orthographic borrowing from English SUV.

SUV (SUV-like automobile built on a passenger car platform, e.g. the Pontiac Torrent)


hood

From Middle English hood, hod, from Old English hōd, from Proto-Germanic *hōdaz (cognate with Saterland Frisian Houd, West Frisian/Dutch hoed, German Low German Hood, German Hut). Cognate with Proto-Iranian *xawdaH (“hat”) (compare Avestan 𐬑𐬂𐬛𐬀 (xåda), Old Persian 𐎧𐎢𐎭 (x-u-d /xaudā/)), from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to cover”). More at hat.

kapuç

covering for the head attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak

(automotive, chiefly UK) A soft top of a convertible car or carriage.

гюрук

(automotive, chiefly US, Canada) The hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle, known as a bonnet in other countries.


flasher

(automotive) An indicator or turn signal.


mount

From Middle English mount, munt, from Old English munt, from Latin mōns (“a hill, mountain”), from a root seen also in ēmineō (“I project, I protrude”) (English eminent). Doublet of mons.

the mount of Jupiter

(palmistry) Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences of various heavenly bodies.


mount

From Middle English mounten, from Anglo-Norman munter, from Vulgar Latin *montāre (“climb”), from Latin montem (“mountain”). Compare modern French monter.

(martial arts) A dominant ground grappling position, where one combatant sits on the other combatants torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head.


mount

en-verb

mount (third-person singular simple present mounts, present participle mounting, simple past and past participle mounted)

mounts (present singular third-person)
mounting (participle present)
mounted (participle past)
mounted (past)

The bills mounted up and the business failed.  There is mounting tension in Crimea.

(intransitive, sometimes with up) To increase in quantity or intensity.


pony

→ Belarusian: по́ні (póni)

→ Danish: pony

→ Dutch: pony
→ Indonesian: poni

→ Finnish: poni

→ French: poney
→ Romanian: ponei

→ Georgian: პონი (ṗoni)

→ German: Pony
→ Estonian: poni

→ Hungarian: póni

→ Irish: pónaí

→ Italian: pony

→ Japanese: ポニー (ponī)

→ Lithuanian: ponis

→ Maltese: poni

→ Norwegian: ponni

desc

→ Portuguese: pónei, pônei (Brazil), poney

→ Russian: пони (poni)

→ Spanish: poni

→ Swedish: ponny

→ Ukrainian: по́ні (póni)

1659 from Scots powny, apparently from Middle French poulenet (“little foal”), ultimately from Late Latin pullanus (“young of an animal”), from pullus (cognate to English foal). Sense “small serving of alcohol” from 19th century, both for small sizes generally and for a quarter pint specifically, from the small size.

uder

How many ponies are under the hood?


dim

dimmen (definite singular)
dimmar (indefinite plural)
dimmane (definite plural)

From the Old Norse adjective dimmr, from Proto-Germanic *dimmaz. The neuter noun is derived from the adjective. The automotive senses may be a Back-formation from - of the verb dimme.

(automotive, colloquial) a switching of one's headlamps from high-beam to low-beam

(automotive, colloquial) lever, button or other


blinker

blinker (indefinite nominative singular)

(automotive) (US) a turn signal, (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) an indicator (that blinks)


premium

→ German: premium

→ Spanish: premium, prémium

(automotive) High-end; belonging to the market segment between mid-market and luxury.


deg

en-noun

deg (countable and uncountable, plural degs)

(motor racing, uncountable) Clipping of degradation.


fender-bender

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-fender-bender.wav

My insurance went up even though all my accidents were just fender-benders.

(chiefly US, slang) A minor accident involving at least one motor vehicle.


bumper

Dutch: bumper

Japanese: バンパー (banpā)

Korean: 범퍼 (beompeo)

Russian: ба́мпер (bámper)

(automotive) Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision; fender.


bumper

nl-noun

bumper m (plural bumpers, diminutive bumpertje n)

bumpers (plural)
bumpertje (diminutive neuter)

Indonesian: bumper, bemper


crumple zone

When Uff investigated Southall, the concept of crumple zones in rolling stock was slowly becoming established. He wrote: "A particular design feature which has proved controversial is the introduction of 'crumple zones', as energy-absorbing measures at the end of coaches. This was opposed by some who considered that it represented a new hazard in view of the possibility of passengers being located within these zones." British Rail designed and built its HSTs before crumple zones became common.

2020 October 7, Philip Haigh, “From Southall to Carmont... how to keep passengers safe”, in Rail, page 46:

A structural feature of a vehicle designed to compress during an accident and absorb impact energy.

kreukelzone

structural feature of an automobile designed to compress during an accident


preignition

(automotive) The premature detonation of a fuel charge in Four-stroke cycle engines.

aikainen sytytys

premature detonation in four-stroke cycle engines


motor

motor m (plural motoren or motors, diminutive motortje n)

motoren (plural)
motors (plural)
motortje (diminutive neuter)

→ Aukan: muntolu

→ Caribbean Hindustani: motar

→ Caribbean Javanese: montor

→ Indonesian: motor

→ Trió: monturu

Borrowed from English motor, from Latin motor. In the sense “motorbike” motor was originally short for motorrijwiel or motorfiets.


motor

→ Ye'kwana: motode


motor

motor (indefinite nominative singular)
motors (genitive indefinite singular)
motorn (definite nominative singular)
motorns (definite genitive singular)
motorer (indefinite nominative plural)
motorers (genitive indefinite plural)
motorerna (definite nominative plural)
motorernas (definite genitive plural)


corner

en-verb

corner (third-person singular simple present corners, present participle cornering, simple past and past participle cornered)

corners (present singular third-person)
cornering (participle present)
cornered (participle past)
cornered (past)

From Middle English corner, from Anglo-Norman cornere (compare Old French cornier, corniere (“corner”)), from Old French corne (“corner, angle”, literally “a horn, projecting point”), from Vulgar Latin *corna (“horn”), from Latin cornua, plural of cornū (“projecting point, end, horn”). The sense of "angle, corner" in Old French is not found in Latin or other Romance languages. It was possibly calqued from Frankish *hurnijā (“corner, angle”), which is similar to, and derived from *hurn, the Frankish word for "horn". Displaced native cognate Middle English hirn, herne, from Old English hyrne, from Proto-Germanic *hurnijǭ (“little horn, hook, angle, corner”), whence modern English hirn (“nook, corner”), itself related to horn.

cog

As the stock car driver cornered the last turn, he lost control and spun out.

(automotive, transitive) To turn a corner or drive around a curve.

That BMW corners well, but the suspension is too stiff.

(automotive, intransitive) To handle while moving around a corner in a road or otherwise turning.


bracketry

(automotive) The mounting hardware used to hold one part to another, typically consisting of stamped metal pieces that make up the actual bracket, and any other bolts, nuts, rubber etc. needed to complete the mounting of the part.


rollback

en-noun

rollback (countable and uncountable, plural rollbacks)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-rollback.wav

The noun is a deverbal from roll back. The verb is a back-formation from the noun despite being redundant to roll back.

(informal, automotive) A form of flatbed truck adapted or designed specifically as a tow truck or for transporting other vehicles.


Mercedes-Benz

An automotive brand or marque from Daimler-Benz.


Mercedes-Benz

de-noun

Mercedes-Benz m (strong, genitive Mercedes-Benz, plural Mercedes-Benz)

Mercedes-Benz (genitive)
Mercedes-Benz (plural)

Karl Benz
Mercedes 35 hp
Mercédès Jellinek
en:Emil Jellinek

From Mercedes + Benz, named after Mercédès Jellinek (daughter of Emil Jellinek, who commissioned the first Mercedes-Benz, the Mercedes 35 hp), and Karl Benz co-founder of Daimler-Benz (and founder of the forerunner Benz automotive company).


Toyota

en-proper noun

Toyota (countable and uncountable, plural Toyotas)

[tɔɪ̯ˈoʊ̯ɾə]

[taɪ̯ˈoʊ̯ɾə]

From Japanese トヨタ (Toyota), from the name of the Toyoda family. The spelling was changed to Toyota because of a belief that it sounded better, or because トヨタ takes eight strokes to write, and 8 is considered lucky.

(automotive) The Toyota Motor Corporation, a Japanese manufacturer of cars.

Coordinate term: Lexus

It is the prelapsarian Polynesia of free love, noble savagery, Kon Tiki rafting and Easter Island statuary, not the Levi’s-wearing, Toyota-driving, pédalo-pushing, efflorescent-cocktails-in-a-split-coconut-serving pseudo-paradise that awaits latter-day travellers.

2001, Stephen Brown, Marketing – the Retro Revolution, London: SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 139:

(automotive) A brand of car manufactured by Toyota.


Toyota

[tɔɪ̯ˈoʊ̯ɾə]

[taɪ̯ˈoʊ̯ɾə]


Toyota

[ˌtoɪ̯ˈɔ.tɐ]

[ˌtoɪ̯ˈɔ.tɐ]

Borrowed from Japanese 豊田 (Toyota) or Japanese トヨタ (Toyota).

Toyota (a Japanese automotive manufacturer)


Peugeot

En-us-Peugeot from France pronunciation (Voice of America).ogg


Peugeot

de-noun

Peugeot m (strong, genitive Peugeots or Peugeot, plural Peugeots or Peugeot)

Peugeots (genitive)
Peugeot (genitive)
Peugeots (plural)
Peugeot (plural)


valet

Borrowed from Middle French valet, from Old French vaslet, from Medieval Latin *vassellittus, diminutive of Late Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas).

der

A wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing.

stummer Diener

a wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing


vehicle identification number

en-noun

vehicle identification number (plural vehicle identification numbers)

Seller of used car, who had fraudulently represented to buyer that the vehicle identification number (VIN) had been scratched out under windshield because former owner had been trying to prevent repossession of the car, was liable to buyer for punitive damages, based on having acted willfully or with reckless disregard for the consequences of the seller's conduct, even if the seller had not known the car had been "chop shopped" from two different vehicles.

1961, American Jurisprudence Proof of Facts, Annotated, Bancroft-Whitney Company:

A mandatory unique alphanumeric code (usually 17 characters long) assigned to each vehicle produced, stamped into the metal on the dashboard on the left-hand side (viewable through the windshield), and on the engine block and at least one other place somewhere on the body of the vehicle.


Mercedes

en-proper noun

Mercedes (countable and uncountable, plural Mercedes)

From Spanish Mercedes (Mary, Our Lady of Mercy). The car was named for Mercédès Jellinek, the daughter of Austrian businessman Emil Jellinek who ordered 36 cars from Gottlieb Daimler.

A city in Buenos Aires province, Argentina.

A city, the capital of the Mercedes department, Corrientes province, Argentina.

A department of Corrientes province, Argentina.

A district of Heredia canton, Heredia province, Costa Rica.

A municipality in Camarines Norte province, Philippines.

A municipality in Eastern Samar province, Philippines.

A city in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States.

A city, the capital of the Soriano department, Uruguay.


Mercedes

en-noun

Mercedes (plural Mercedes or Mercedeses)

On a bridge that leads from Nile Street to the café in Tahrir Square where [Naguib] Mahfouz takes his morning coffee, there is often a beggar working his way among cars stuck in the city’s perpetual traffic jam. One of his legs is missing, and he hops up to the windows of the Mercedeses and Fiats on his remaining, bare foot.

1989 November, Christopher Dickey, “At the Ali Baba Café”, in Vanity Fair, volume 52, number 11, New York, N.Y.: The Condé Nast Publications Inc., →ISSN, page 240:

Samuel T. blew off the line-up of sheep at the base of Easterly’s hill, shooting his Jag around the Mercedeses, Audis, Porsches, and limos, and waving at the parkers who tried to flag him down so he’d stop.

2015 July, J. R. Ward [pseudonym; Jessica Rowley Pell Bird Blakemore], chapter 31, in The Bourbon Kings, New York, N.Y.: New American Library, →ISBN, page 273:

Anton and I saw each of them pull up in their Mercedeses and BMWs and park quasi-legally within a convenient distance of the diner.

2018, Keith Gessen, A Terrible Country: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 322:

Clipping of Mercedes-Benz, a car manufactured by Mercedes-Benz.


Mercedes

de-noun

Mercedes m (strong, genitive Mercedes, plural Mercedesse)

Mercedes (genitive)
Mercedesse (plural)
Mercedes (nominative singular)
Mercedesse (definite nominative plural)
Mercedes (genitive singular)
Mercedesse (definite genitive plural)
Mercedes (dative singular)
Mercedessen (dative definite plural)
Mercedes (accusative singular)
Mercedesse (accusative definite plural)

(automotive) Mercedes (car manufactured by Mercedes-Benz)


Mercedes

[mɨɾˈse.ðɨʃ]


pickup truck

zh-l

皮卡車／皮卡车 (píkǎchē)

Chinese: 皮卡 (píkǎ), 皮卡車／皮卡车 (píkǎchē)

Japanese: ピックアップトラック (pikkuapputorakku)

Russian: пика́п (pikáp)

(chiefly Canada, US, Singapore) A light truck with an open cargo bed.


stall

en-verb

stall (third-person singular simple present stalls, present participle stalling, simple past and past participle stalled)

stalls (present singular third-person)
stalling (participle present)
stalled (participle past)
stalled (past)

From Middle English stallen (“to abide, dwell, place in a location, stop, come to a standstill”), partly from Old French estaler, ultimately from the same origin as Etymology 1 (see above); and partly from Middle English stalle (“fixed position, stall”).

estää

to cause to come to a standstill; to forestall

(transitive, automotive) To cause the engine of a manual-transmission car or truck to stop by going too slowly for the selected gear.


halo

From Latin halōs, from Ancient Greek ἅλως (hálōs, “threshing floor; disk; disk of the sun or moon; ring of light around the sun or moon”), of unknown origin. The threshing floor's circular threshold or oxen walking on it in a circle gave rise to the other meanings. Used in English since 1563; the sense of light around someone’s head since 1646.

massive astronomical compact halo object

massive astrophysical compact halo object

(motor racing) A rollbar placed in front of the driver, used to protect the cockpit of an open cockpit racecar.


aero

en-noun

aero (countable and uncountable, plural aeros)

Back-formation from aero- (prefix), from Ancient Greek ἀέρος (aéros).

"The biggest difference is aero, which is a really big cut."

2009 February 12, Paul Gover, “Australian Grand Prix sleep-in suits Robert Kubica,”, in Herald Sun:

(slang, uncountable, motor racing) Aerodynamics.


buc

From Frankish *būk (“belly”), from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, stomach”). Compare Spanish buque (“vessel”) and Italian buco (“hole”).


kitty litter

en-noun

kitty litter (usually uncountable, plural kitty litters)

[ˈkʰɪɾi ˈlɪɾɚ]

(motor racing, informal) A gravel trap (a large area of gravel used to slow cars that leave the track)


bela

From Vulgar Latin *vela, from the plural of Latin velum.


gallery

From Middle English galery, gallerye, from Middle French galerie, gallerie, from Old French galerie, gallerie (“a long portico, a gallery”), from Medieval Latin galeria (“gallery”), perhaps an alteration of galilea (“church porch”), probably from Latin Galilaea, Galilee, region of Palestine. More at Galilee.

At about 2500 r.p.m., as much oil is by-passed through the cooler as the amount delivered to the main gallery and at higher engine speeds the flow through the cooler is appreciably greater.

2012, Colin Campbell, The Sports Car: Its design and performance, page 92:

Metal grit from a previous engine failure was lodged in the oil galleries and had come loose upon driving the vehicle.

2014, Tim Gilles, Automotive Engines, page 164:

(automotive) A channel that carries engine oil to parts of the engine that need lubrication, such as the main bearings.


sprint

Unadapted borrowing from English sprint.

(automotive) a car having strong acceleration


toc

(automotive) engine knocking (toc moteur), especially when reduplicated as toc-toc


Selected so as to be able to continue using most of the labelling from its former name 901 after its competitor Peugeot objected that it had the legal rights to 3-digit automotive model names with a central 0 in the French market. The name 901 had been selected since it was the first version of the 6th major design project after the earlier Porsche 356, which the 911 largely replaced. The name is pronounced "nine-eleven" by analogy with German Neunelfer.

(automotive) A prominent family of sports cars manufactured by Porsche.


freccia

Borrowed from Old French fleche, from Vulgar Latin *fleccia, of Frankish origin.


grand slam

(motor racing) The situation in which a racer starts from pole position, then wins first place while leading during the entire race, while also recording the fastest lap of the race.


console

Borrowed from French console (“bracket”, noun), from consoler (“to console, to comfort”, verb).
Sense of “bracket” either due to a bracket alleviating the load, or due to brackets being decorated with the Christian figure of a consolateur (“consoler”), itself perhaps a pun on the first sense (alleviating load).
Originally used for the bracket itself, then for wall-mounted tables (mounted with a bracket), then for free-standing tables placed against a wall. Use for control system dates at least to 1880s for an “organ console”; use for electrical or electronic control systems dates at least to 1930s in radio, television, and system control, particularly as “mixer console” or “control console”, attached to an equipment rack. This was popularized in computers by mainframes such as the IBM 704 (1954) in terms such as “operator’s console” or “console typewriter”, and then generalized to any attached equipment, particularly for user interaction. The automotive sense harks back to earlier use as “support”.

(automotive) A storage tray or container mounted between the seats of an automobile.

конзола

automotive: storage tray or container mounted between the seats of an automobile


HOT

HOT (countable and uncountable, plural HOTs)

(automotive) Acronym of high-output turbo. (turbocharger)


tanker

(automotive, US) A tank truck (tanker truck).

(automotive, UK) A fuel tanker, petrol tanker, road tanker.


VIN

vehicle identification number
vehicle identification number#English

(automotive) Acronym of vehicle identification number.


donk

en-verb

donk (third-person singular simple present donks, present participle donking, simple past and past participle donked)

donks (present singular third-person)
donking (participle present)
donked (participle past)
donked (past)

We can donk all day, boys!

(slang, transitive, Canada, US) To mess around, to play


donk

It was the scene where Steve, Blue, Charl and Pricie-ole-man all mount Seldomfed in the dark and rain on their way to rob a neighbour′s orchard. It would very likely raise a reminiscent smile or grin from one who doubled or trebled or quadrupled-donked it to school.

1947, Southerly: The Magazine of the Australian English Association, Sydney, volumes 8-10, page 87:

(Australia, colloquial, slang) To provide a second person with a lift on a bicycle (formerly, on a horse), seating the passenger either in front (on the handlebar) or behind (sharing the seat); to travel as a passenger in such manner.


donk

A 1971 to 1976 Chevrolet Caprice or Impala that has been modified, usually by being raised and given bigger wheels.


internal combustion engine
internal combustion engine

An internal combustion engine with eight cylinders arranged in two banks that form a V shape.


transmission

en-noun

transmission (countable and uncountable, plural transmissions)

Borrowed from Latin transmissionem (accusative of transmissio), from transmittere.

monochromated scanning transmission electron microscope

Any vehicle with an internal combustion engine needs a transmission that can alter the gear ratio (engine RPM to wheel RPM) as the vehicle's speed changes.

(automotive) A device, usually an assembly of gears (gearbox) plus a clutch or torque converter, through which power is sent from the engine to the driveshaft in an automobile (motor car or motor truck).


caster

From cast + -er; the wheel sense comes from obsolete cast (“to turn”).

In addition, caster helps to reduce steering effort and to return the steering wheel to the center position after a turn.

2008, Ronald G Haefner, The Car Care Book, →ISBN, page 238:

(automotive) The angle of the axis around which a car's front wheels rotate when the steering wheel is turned, with a vertical axis being defined as zero caster.


filling station

filling station (plural filling stations)

Here and there, under the porches of ruined filling stations, in the gaping doorways of office buildings, lie heaps of human bones.

1948 August, Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC:

A facility which sells fuel and lubricants for motor vehicles.


rev

Up came the revs again, slam the door shut, kick the stick off the throttle and up through the gears, down the others side! Whee! Made it again!

2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 175:


RAF

(motor racing) Abbreviation of Russian Automobile Federation.

The national identifier for Russians in international motorsport while Russia is under ban by the ruling of the Court of Arbitration for Sport supporting the ban enacted by the World Anti-Doping Agency.


spoiler

→ Catalan: espòiler

→ Czech: spoiler

→ French: spoiler

→ Georgian: სპოილერი (sṗoileri)

→ German: Spoiler

→ Italian: spoiler

→ Polish: spoiler

→ Portuguese: spoiler

→ Russian: спо́йлер (spójler)

→ Spanish: spoiler

→ Turkish: spoiler

→ Ukrainian: спо́йлер (spójler)

спо́йлер

automobiles: device to reduce lift and increase downforce

(automotive) A device to reduce lift and increase downforce.


spoiler

spoiler (nominative singular)
spoilery (nominative plural)
spoileru (genitive singular)
spoilerů (genitive plural)
spoileru (dative singular)
spoilerům (dative plural)
spoiler (accusative singular)
spoilery (accusative plural)
spoilere (singular vocative)
spoilery (plural vocative)
spoileru (locative singular)
spoilerech (locative plural)
spoilerem (instrumental singular)
spoilery (instrumental plural)

Unadapted borrowing from English spoiler.


spoiler

spoiler (nominative singular)
spoilery (nominative plural)
spoilera (genitive singular)
spoilerów (genitive plural)
spoilerowi (dative singular)
spoilerom (dative plural)
spoiler (accusative singular)
spoilery (accusative plural)
spoilerem (instrumental singular)
spoilerami (instrumental plural)
spoilerze (locative singular)
spoilerach (locative plural)
spoilerze (singular vocative)
spoilery (plural vocative)

(aeronautics) spoiler (device to reduce lift and increase drag)

spoiler (device to reduce lift and increase downforce)

(colloquial, media) spoiler (document, review, or comment that discloses the ending or some key surprise or twist in a story, or the internal rules controlling the behaviour of a video game, etc.)


spoiler

(automotive) spoiler (a device to reduce lift and increase downforce)


sweeper

From Middle English swepere, swepare, equivalent to sweep + -er. Cognate with Middle Low German swēpære, swēper (“broom for sweeping up debris”).

(motor racing, slang) A large-radius, or high/medium speed corner in a racing circuit, named as such because of the ability of someone to trace the corner profile via "sweeping" motion of the arm.


Mario

From Italian and Spanish Mario, both of which coming from Latin Marius.

(automotive, motor racing, figurative) Ellipsis of Mario Andretti (“one who drives fast or recklessly”).


Austin

From Middle English [Term?], from Anglo-Norman Aostin, Austin, a contraction of Old French Agustin, from Latin Augustīnus, from Augustus (literally “majestic”). Doublet of Augustine.

The posterists of Austin chronicled the changing social landscape and graphically redefined Texas for the rest of the country and the world […]

2015, Alan Schaefer, Joe Nick Patoski, Nels Jacobson, Homegrown: Austin Music Posters 1967 to 1982, page 17:

The capital city of Texas, USA and the county seat of Travis County; named for American empresario Stephen F. Austin.

A city, the county seat of Mower County, Minnesota; named for early settler Austin R. Nichols.

census-designated place
census-designated place

A census-designated place in Lander County, Nevada; named for early settler Alvah Austin.


waistline

[...] with the adoption of a curved bodyside profile Bulleid considerably raised the height of the waistline and at the shoulder height of seated passengers, just where the extra space was most needed.

1979 August, Graham Burtenshaw, Michael S. Welch, “O.V.S. Bulleid's SR loco-hauled coaches - 1”, in Railway World, page 396:

(automotive) The horizontal line just below the windows of a car or other vehicle.


ps

(automotive, in classified ads) Abbreviation of power steering.


BMW

a manufacturer of motor vehicles (Bayerische Motoren-Werke (Bavarian Motor Works)).

بِي إِم دَبُلْيُو

colloquial names and pronunciations, apart from the romanised "BMW"


BMW

A motor car manufactured by this company

A motorcycle manufactured by this company


BMW

Bayerische Motoren-Werke
Bayerische Motoren-Werke#German

BMW Initialism of Bayerische Motoren-Werke (“Bavarian Motor Works”).


blow-by

en-noun

blow-by (countable and uncountable, plural blow-bys)

(automotive) In an internal combustion engine, any burnt or unburnt matter escaping from the cylinder, past the (worn) rings on the piston, and into the crankcase.


carr

head

carr m (genitive singular cairr, nominative plural carranna)

cairr (genitive singular)
carranna (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
carr (indefinite singular)
carranna (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a chairr (indefinite singular)
a charranna (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
cairr (indefinite singular)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an carr (definite singular)
na carranna (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an chairr (definite singular)
na gcarranna (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an gcarr (definite singular)
don charr (definite singular)
leis na carranna (definite plural)
carr
charr
gcarr

From Old Irish carr (“cart, waggon”), from Proto-Celtic *karros, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós. Nowadays reinforced over its synonym gluaisteán through influence of English car.


choke

From Middle English choken (also cheken), from earlier acheken, from Old English āċēocian (“to choke”), probably derived from Old English ċēoce, ċēace (“jaw, cheek”), see cheek. Cognate with Icelandic kok (“throat”), koka (“to gulp”). See also achoke.

A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.


windscreen wiper

en-noun

windscreen wiper (plural windscreen wipers)

(automobiles, British, Australia, New Zealand) A device used to clear rain and dirt from a windscreen; normally a pivoting arm with a rubber blade; a windshield wiper.


windscreen

Oh no! A vandal has just smashed our windscreen! Susan, can you go and call the insurance company?

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A transparent screen made of glass, located at the front of a vehicle in order to protect its occupants from the wind and weather.

(military) A lightweight aerodynamic fairing mounted on the nose of an armor-piercing shell to reduce drag and increase range.

As well as demonstrating operating facilities, full-size car body models are used for experimenting with new types of interior finish, systems of lighting, positioning of route diagrams and advertisements, and the best form of windscreens at doorways, and the height and location of handgrips and handrails.

1951 October, “Models Assist Rolling Stock Design”, in Railway Magazine, page 647:

A draught screen at the side of a passenger train doorway.


windshield wiper

windshield wiper (plural windshield wipers)

Using her hands like windshield wipers, she tried to flick snow away from her mouth. When she clawed at her chest and neck, the crumbs maddeningly slid back onto her face. She grew claustrophobic.

2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time:

(automobiles, US, Canada) a device used to clear rain and dirt from a windshield; normally a pivoting arm with a rubber blade


windshield

The freezing rain covered our windshield with ice and we couldn't see a thing.

(Canada, US, Philippines) A transparent screen made of glass, located at the front and back of a vehicle in front of its occupants to protect them from the wind force generated by the vehicle's speed and inclement weather.

bitaʼ

screen located in front of a vehicle to protect from wind and weather


hit the road

en-verb

hit the road (third-person singular simple present hits the road, present participle hitting the road, simple past and past participle hit the road)

hits the road (present singular third-person)
hitting the road (participle present)
hit the road (participle past)
hit the road (past)

If we're gonna make it by sunset, we'd better hit the road.

(slang, idiomatic) To begin traveling in an automobile or other road vehicle.

lähteä tien päälle

to begin traveling in an automobile or other road vehicle

It's time for me to hit the road and walk home.

(slang, idiomatic) To leave a place; to go away.


zapata

Coordinate term: pastilla de frenos


coche

Chavacano: coche

→ Basque: kotxe

→ Bikol Central: kotse

→ Cebuano: kotse

→ Ilocano: kotse

→ Sambali: kotsi

→ Tagalog: kotse

Borrowed from Middle French coche, from German Kutsche, from Hungarian kocsi, in reference to Kocs, a village in Hungary where the first horse-drawn vehicles with an innovative suspension system were manufactured in the 15th century. Doublet of coach.

Mi coche tiene una avería.

(chiefly Philippines, Equatorial Guinea, Spain) car, automobile

(rail transport) car (a passenger-carrying unit in a subway or elevated train)

(Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay) baby carriage, pram


AFL

(automotive) Initialism of adaptive front light.


undercarriage

/ˈʌndɚˌkɛɹɪd͡ʒ/

/ˈʌndəˌkæɹɪd͡ʒ/

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-undercarriage.wav


leadfoot

The leadfoot screeched to a stop inches from the tree.

One who drives quickly or without subtlety, one who often engages in and/or is fond of slamming and flooring the accelerator often.


dashboard

/ˈdæʃˌbɔː(ɹ)d/

/ˈdæʃˌboəɹd/

/ˈdæʃˌbɔːɹd/

From dash (“to sprinkle; to splatter”) + board for meaning 1. Possibly expanded meaning later.


undercut

From Middle English undercutten, equivalent to under- + cut.

(motor racing) A pit stop strategy in which a driver seeks to gain an advantage over someone by pitting before them and using fresh tyres to make up time.


undercut

en-verb

undercut (third-person singular simple present undercuts, present participle undercutting, simple past and past participle undercut)

undercuts (present singular third-person)
undercutting (participle present)
undercut (participle past)
undercut (past)

(motor racing) To employ the undercut strategy.


step on it

step on it (third-person singular simple present steps on it, present participle stepping on it, simple past and past participle stepped on it)

steps on it (present singular third-person)
stepping on it (participle present)
stepped on it (participle past)
stepped on it (past)

Automobile accelerators are usually foot pedals, so stepping down harder increases the acceleration.

If I step on it, I can still arrive on time.

To drive fast; to step on the accelerator.