car

She drove her car to the mall.

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:

If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] .

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

A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation.

(archaic) A wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal.

(UK, Birmingham, obsolete) A four-wheeled cab, as opposed to a (two-wheeled) Hansom cab.

It shall suffice me to enioy your loue,
Which whiles I haue, I thinke my selfe as great,
As Caesar riding in the Romaine streete,
With captiue kings at his triumphant Carre.

1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

He has deserved it [armour], were it carbuncled
Like holy Phoebus’ car.

c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene viii]:

The Red Foliot sate in his car of polished ebony, drawn by six black horses with flowing manes and tails; before him went his musicians, pipers and minstrels doing their craft, and behind him fifty spearmen, weighed down with armour and ponderous shields that covered them from chin to toe.

1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 19:

The conductor coupled the cars to the locomotive.

Any vehicle designed to run on rails, especially an unpowered one towed by being connected to others.

(rail transport, chiefly Canada, US) An unpowered unit in a railroad train, used to hold either passengers or cargo.

A similar vehicle used in special contexts, such as mines, quarries, and mills.

The 11:10 to London was operated by a 4-car diesel multiple unit.

(rail transport) an individual vehicle, powered or unpowered, in a multiple unit.

From the frontmost car of the subway, he filmed the progress through the tunnel.

(rail transport) A passenger-carrying unit in a subway or elevated train, whether powered or not.

en:passenger-carrying unit in a subway or elevated train, whether powered or not

We ordered five hundred cars of gypsum.

This market reports only one or two cars per day, selling by the hundred weight, and at a price a little lower than that of Indian corn.

1907, Texas Agricultural, Mechanical College System, Bulletin, volumes 93-117, page 5:

A rough unit of quantity approximating the amount which would fill a railroad car.

Fix the car of the express elevator - the door is sticking.

The moving, load-carrying component of an elevator or other cable-drawn transport mechanism.

The most exciting part of riding a Ferris wheel is when your car goes over the top.

The passenger-carrying portion of certain amusement park rides, such as Ferris wheels.

Everything being apparently in readiness now, I stepped into the car of the balloon, […]

1850, John Wise, A System of Aeronautics, page 152:

"What about a car?" "The car will be my next care. I have already planned how it is to be made and attached. Meanwhile I will simply show you how capable my apparatus is of supporting the weight of each of us."

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

The part of an airship, such as a balloon or dirigible, which houses the passengers and control apparatus.

On boats 25 feet or more, it is best to mount a mast car and track on the front of the mast so you can adjust the height of the pole above the deck

1995, Ken Textor, The New Book of Sail Trim, →ISBN, page 201:

(sailing) A sliding fitting that runs along a track.

Buy now! You can get more car for your money.

(uncountable, US, informal) The aggregate of desirable characteristics of a car.

(US) A floating perforated box for living fish.

(Internet, humorous) Deliberate misspelling of cat.

cars (plural)
carr (alternative archaic)

→ French: car

→ Russian: кар (kar)

⇒ Sanskrit: कारयान (kārayāna)

→ Japanese: カー (kā)

→ Hindi: कार (kār)

→ Urdu: کار (kār)

kar

automobile, a vehicle steered by a driver

carro

El Norte, Southwestern U.S., Caribbean Islands

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Inherited from Middle English carre, borrowed from Anglo-Norman carre, from Old Northern French (compare Old French char), from Latin carrus (“two-wheeled baggage wagon”), from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”). Doublet of carrus and horse.


car

Holonym: cons

The elements of a list are the successive cars along the "cdr chain." That is, the elements are the car, the car of the cdr, the car of the cdr of the cdr, etc.

2000, Matt Kaufmann, Panagiotis Manolios, J Strother Moore, Computer-aided reasoning: an approach:

(programming) The first part of a cons in Lisp. The first element of a list.

Acronym of contents of the address part of register number. Note that it was based on original hardware and has no meaning today.