Definition of "car"

car¹

/kɑː/

noun
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.
  Quotations
  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
2. (dated) A wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal; a chariot.
  Quotations
  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 (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, (please specify the page)
  He has deserved it [armour], were it carbuncledLike holy Phoebus’ car.
  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, [Act IV, scene viii]
  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.
4. (rail transport) an individual vehicle, powered or unpowered, in a multiple unit.
5. (rail transport) A passenger-carrying unit in a subway or elevated train, whether powered or not.
6. A rough unit of quantity approximating the amount which would fill a railroad car.
  Quotations
  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
7. The moving, load-carrying component of an elevator or other cable-drawn transport mechanism.
8. The passenger-carrying portion of certain amusement park rides, such as Ferris wheels.
9. The part of an airship, such as a balloon or dirigible, which houses the passengers and control apparatus.
  Quotations
  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
10. (sailing) A sliding fitting that runs along a track.
  Quotations
  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, page 201
11. (uncountable, US, informal) The aggregate of desirable characteristics of a car.
12. (US) A floating perforated box for living fish.
13. (US, prison slang) A clique or gang.
14. (Internet) Deliberate misspelling of cat.

car²

/kɑː/

noun
plural cars
1. (programming) The first part of a cons in Lisp. The first element of a list.
  Quotations
  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

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