"car carrier" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: car carriers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} car carrier (plural car carriers)
  1. A special ship that transports cars in a garage with ambient control and ventilation. Categories (topical): Automotive Translations (ship): bilskib [neuter] (Danish), autonkuljetuslaiva (Finnish), bilskip [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), bilskip [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), samochodowiec [masculine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-car_carrier-en-noun-KvKlEbuM Disambiguation of Automotive: 43 30 27 Disambiguation of 'ship': 100 0 0
  2. A special railroad car for transporting automobiles. Categories (topical): Watercraft Synonyms: autorack (english: rail vehicle), car transporter Translations (railroad car): autonkuljetusvaunu (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-car_carrier-en-noun-WwgjMfeJ Disambiguation of Watercraft: 28 47 25 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 24 67 9 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 16 75 9 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 20 65 15 Disambiguation of 'railroad car': 5 93 2
  3. A special semi-trailer for transporting automobiles. Translations (semi-trailer): autonkuljetusauto (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-car_carrier-en-noun-QCmUWo9B Disambiguation of 'semi-trailer': 8 8 84
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms (float): semi-trailer
Disambiguation of 'float': 0 0 0

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for car carrier meaning in English (2.8kB)

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