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car

1  [kahr]
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–noun
1. an automobile.
2. a vehicle running on rails, as a streetcar or railroad car.
3. the part of an elevator, balloon, modern airship, etc., that carries the passengers, freight, etc.
4. British Dialect. any wheeled vehicle, as a farm cart or wagon.
5. Literary. a chariot, as of war or triumph.
6. Archaic. cart; carriage.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME carre < AF < LL carra (fem. sing.), L carra, neut. pl. of carrum, var. of carrus < Celt.; cf. OIr carr wheeled vehicle

Related forms:
carless, adjective
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car

2  [kahr]
–adjective Chiefly Scot.
1. left-handed.
2. sinister.
Origin:
1375–1425; ME (Scots) < ScotGael cearr

CAR

 
computer-assisted retrieval.
Origin:
1980–85

car.

 
carat; carats.
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car   (kär)   
n.  

  1. An automobile.

  2. A vehicle, such as a streetcar, that runs on rails: a railroad car.

  3. A boxlike enclosure for passengers and freight on a conveyance: an elevator car.

  4. The part of a balloon or airship that carries people and cargo.

  5. Archaic A chariot, carriage, or cart.


[Middle English carre, cart, from Old North French, from Latin carra, pl. of carrus, carrum, a Gallic type of wagon; see kers- in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

car 
1301, "wheeled vehicle," from Norm.-Fr. carre, from L. carrum, carrus (pl. carra), orig. "two-wheeled Celtic war chariot," from Gaul. karros, from PIE *krsos, from base *kers- "to run." Extension to "automobile" is 1896. Car-sick first recorded 1908, on model of sea sick. U.S. carport is from 1939. Car bomb first 1972, in reference to Northern Ireland. Car pool is 1942 (n.), 1962 (v.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
CAR

  1. Carina (constellation)

  2. Carolina Panthers

  3. computer-assisted retrieval

The American Heritage® Abbreviations Dictionary, Third Edition
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