car
/kɑɹ/ nom A1En français : voiture, auto, automobile, char
- A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry and a bus. · in a car· He drove his car to the theatre.
- An unpowered unit in a railroad train, used to hold either passengers or cargo. · The conductor coupled the cars to the locomotive.
- A similar vehicle used in special contexts, such as mines, quarries, and mills.
- an individual vehicle, powered or unpowered, in a multiple unit. · The 11:10 to London was operated by a 4-car diesel multiple unit.
- A passenger-carrying unit in a subway or elevated train, whether powered or not. · From the frontmost car of the subway, he filmed the progress through the tunnel.
- A rough unit of quantity approximating the amount which would fill a railroad car. · We ordered five hundred cars of gypsum.
- The moving, load-carrying component of an elevator or other cable-drawn transport mechanism. · Fix the car of the express elevator - the door is sticking.
- The passenger-carrying portion of certain amusement park rides, such as Ferris wheels. · The most exciting part of riding a Ferris wheel is when your car goes over the top.
Pluriel cars
Dans la bibliothèque
It is as if you met a tram-car coming down a country lane.
Van Schuylight Suffolk-Jones—came out to his waiting motor-car, wrinkling a contumelious nostril, as usual, at the Italian renaissance sculpture of the soap palace’s front elevation.
But within that minute a crosstown car had stopped directly in front of the cab.
He saw a congested flood of wagons, trucks, cabs, vans and street cars filling the vast space where Broadway, Sixth Avenue and Thirty-fourth street cross one another as a twenty-six inch maiden fills her twenty-two inch girdle.
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