car

car

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Galibi Carib.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɑː/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /kɑɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
• Homophones: carr, Carr, Karr

Inherited from Middle English carre, borrowed from Anglo-Norman carre, from Old Northern French (compare Old French char), from Latin carra, neuter plural of carrum (“four-wheeled baggage wagon”), from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”).

• carr (archaic)

car (plural cars)

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

   Synonyms: auto, motorcar, vehicle, (US) automobile, (Britain, colloquial) motor, (obsolete) carriage; see also Thesaurus:automobile

   She drove her car to the mall.

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

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

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

     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: […] .

2. (dated) A wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal; a chariot.
   • 1594 (first publication), Christopher Marlow[e], The Trovblesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edvvard the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, OCLC 837836359, (please specify the page):

     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.

   • c. 1606–1607, 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 606515358, [Act IV, scene viii]:

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

   1. (UK, Birmingham, obsolete) A four-wheeled cab, as opposed to a (two-wheeled) Hansom cab.
3. (rail transport, chiefly Canada, US) An unpowered unit in a railroad train.

   Synonyms: railcar, wagon, carriage

   The conductor coupled the cars to the locomotive.

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

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

5. (rail transport) 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.

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

   Synonyms: carload, wagonload

   We ordered five hundred cars of gypsum.

   • 1907, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College System, Bulletin (volumes 93-117, page 5)

     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.

7. 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.

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

   Synonym: carriage

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

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

   Synonyms: gondola, (balloons only) basket

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

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

   • 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World‎:

     "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."

10. (sailing) A sliding fitting that runs along a track.
    • 1995, Ken Textor, The New Book of Sail Trim‎, →ISBN, page 201:

      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

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

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

12. (US) A floating perforated box for living fish.
13. (US, prison slang) A clique or gang.

• carriage
• chariot

• → French: car
• → Russian: кар (kar)
• ⇒ Sanskrit: कारयान (kārayāna)

• bus
• truck
• van

Etymology unclear, but probably from Proto-Germanic *karzijaną (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *gers- (“to bend, turn”). Compare cair (“to turn, go”), char (“to turn”), Dutch keren (“to turn”), German Kehre (“turn, bend”).

William Shakespeare had something of a fondness for verbalizing nouns, and sometimes even substantivizing verbs. However, anything other than a "turn" does not seem to make any sense within the broader context of the cited Sonnet.

car (plural cars)

1. (obsolete) A turn.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 7”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […]‎, London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, OCLC 216596634:

     But when from highmost pitch, with weary car,
     Like feeble age, he reeleth from the day, (after the sun reaches the zenith it, with a weary turn, begins to reel (“to roll”) (downwards))

Diagram for the list (42 69 613). The car of the first cons is 42, and the cdr points the next cons.

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

car (plural cars)

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

   Antonym: cdr

   Holonym: cons

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

     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.

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• caddr

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  A hydrogen-powered car.
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  Freight cars.
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  A self-propelled passenger car.
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  Ferris wheel cars.
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  Car on a sailboat.
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  Car of a Zeppelin.

• ARC, CRA, RAC, RCA, acr-, arc, arc-, rac-

• caru

From Latin carrus, from Gaulish *karros. Compare Romanian car.

car n (plural cari)

1. chariot
2. ox-cart

• cãrutsã/carotsã
• cãrutsar
• caretã
• cherã

car

1. mouth

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈkar/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ

From Latin cārus.

car (feminine cara, masculine plural cars, feminine plural cares)

1. expensive

   Synonyms: alt, costós

   Antonym: barat

2. (poetic) dear

   Synonyms: estimat, amat, apreciat

From Latin quārē (“how; why”). Compare French car.

car

1. as, since, because, for

   Synonym: perquè

• “car” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Church Slavonic цѣсарь (cěsarĭ), from Proto-Slavic *cěsařь, from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar.

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sar]
• Hyphenation: car
• Rhymes: -ar

car m anim

1. tsar

• carský
• carevna
• carevič
• Cařihrad
• carismus
• carství

• car in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• car in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

• IPA^(key): /kaʁ/

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• Rhymes: -aʁ

From Old French quer (“as, since, because, for”), from Latin quārē (“how; why”). Compare Catalan car.

car

1. as, since, because, for
   • c. 1656–1662, Blaise Pascal, “Dossier de travail - Fragment n° 10 / 35”, in Pensées [Thoughts]‎:

     Car dans la création de l’homme Adam en était le témoin et le dépositaire de la promesse du sauveur qui devait naître de la femme, lorsque les hommes étaient encore si proches de la Création qu’ils ne pouvaient avoir oublié leur création et leur chute.

     For in the creation of man, Adam was the witness and the depositary of the promise of the saviour who would be born of woman, when the men were still so close to the Creation that they could not have forgotten their creation and their fall.

   J’ai ouvert mon parapluie car il pleuvait.

   I opened my umbrella because it was raining.

• parce que (in some contexts)

Borrowed from English car, itself borrowed from Anglo-Norman and the Old Northern French car, variant of Old French char. Doublet of char.

car m (plural cars)

1. a single-decked long-distance, or privately hired, bus, a coach

   Synonym: autocar

   Les élèves vont à l’école en car. ― The pupils go to school by coach.

• “car”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• arc

car (comparative plus car, superlative le plus car)

1. dear; beloved; cherished
2. expensive

From Old Irish caraid, from Proto-Celtic *kareti (“to love”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂- (“to desire, wish”).

• IPA^(key): /karˠ/

car (present analytic carann, future analytic carfaidh, verbal noun carthain, past participle cartha)

1. to love
2. be devoted to

• gráigh

Akin to Italian caro, from Latin carus.

car

1. dear

car

1. for (because)

• French: car

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin cārus.

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car m (feminine singular cara, masculine plural cars, feminine plural caras)

1. dear
2. expensive

• IPA^(key): /kar/

car

1. dear

Borrowed from Russian царь (carʹ), from Proto-Slavic *cěsařь, from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar. Doublet of cesarz (“emperor”).

• IPA^(key): /t͡sar/

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• Rhymes: -ar
• Syllabification: car

car m pers

1. (historical) czar, tsar, tzar (title of the former emperors of Russia)

   Synonym: (colloquial) batiuszka

• car in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• car in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Latin carrus (“wagon; cart”).

• (Central Romagnol): IPA^(key): [ˈkaɐ̯ɾ]

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car m (plural chër) (Ville Unite)

1. wagon, cart

• IPA^(key): [kar]

From Latin carrus, from Gaulish *karros.

car n (plural care)

1. cart
2. chariot
3. (outdated) tank (military vehicle), here influenced by French char and/or Italian carro (armato)

• căruță
• cărare
• căra
• caretă
• încărca

car

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of căra

From Latin caries or carius. Doublet of carie.

• cariu (dated)

car m (plural cari)

1. death-watch beetle

From Old Irish cor (“act of putting”), verbal noun of fo·ceird (“to put”).

car m (genitive singular cuir, plural caran)

1. job
2. twist, turn
3. trick
4. bit

• aig a' char as lugha
• aig a' char as miosa
• cuir car de

car

1. somewhat, quite, rather

   Tha thu car fadalach. ― You're somewhat late.

   Thig an stòiridh gu ceann car obann. ― The story came to an end somewhat abruptly.

• caran

From Proto-Slavic *cěsařь, *cьsarь, from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sâr/

cȁr m (Cyrillic spelling ца̏р)

1. czar, emperor, monarch
   • 1971, Branko B. Radičević, Baš-Čelik, Belgrade, page 1:

     Bijaše jedan car, i imađaše tri sina i tri ćerke.

     There once was a tsar and he had three daughters and three sons.

   Podajte caru carevo, a Bogu Božje. ― Give the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor and God what belongs to God.

• cȁrevina
• cȁrica
• cȁrina
• cȃrstvo

• “car” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Serbo-Croatian cȁr, from Proto-Slavic *cěsařь, from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sàːr/, /t͡sáːr/

cār m anim (female equivalent caríca or cārinja)

1. tsar

• césar

• “car”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

From Latin quārē (“why”).

car

1. (archaic) because

   Synonym: porque

• “car”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• IPA^(key): [tʃar]

car (nominative plural cars)

1. (weapon) bow

From Middle Welsh carr, from Proto-Brythonic *karr, from Proto-Celtic *karros.

• IPA^(key): /kar/

car m (plural ceir)

1. car

• sêl cist car

From Middle English carre, from Anglo-Norman carre, from Latin carra.

car

1. car
   • 1927, “ZONG OF TWI MAARKEET MOANS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, line 6:

     An awi gome her egges wi a wheel an car taape,

     And away went her eggs, with the car overset.

• Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 129

car m

1. god