a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.

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1865–70; < French: literally, self-movable (vehicle). See auto-¹, mobile

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[aw-tuh-muh-bee-list, -moh-bi-list] , noun

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News about automobile registration and license plates.

Ashford has been happiest when peering under the hood of an automobile.

Furniture and automobile price increases were the biggest upward movers.

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News about automobile registration and license plates.

Ashford has been happiest when peering under the hood of an automobile.

Furniture and automobile price increases were the biggest upward movers.

Automobile exhaust produces elevated lead levels in urban air.

The government allocates to the automobile giants money under modernization of manufacture.

Today's average automobile buyer is more concious about the safety features of a new car.

Coleman is issued a patent for an electric automobile starter.

If you are trying to finance a new automobile with a five-year loan, you may find it more difficult to get one these days.

The comparison of the university to the automobile industry is a dog that doesn't quite have any teeth.

Remember too that several foriegn governments saved their automobile manufacturers from making excessive cuts in capacity.

Michigan's economy has diversified and has gained some independence from the automobile industry.

In many ways, the device resembles a combustion cylinder in a standard automobile engine, though without a piston.

We have more automobile plants than the north, and many other factories as many have moved south.

All the subsystems of every type of automobile had to be worked out.

Determining exactly what causes automobile accidents is far more difficult than it first appears, researchers say.

The financial-service and automobile industries are cases in point.

They feed at dawn and dusk, and tend to cross roads blindly, causing hundreds of automobile accidents.

Exploding the myth that premium gasoline delivers better performance in the average automobile.

Like automobile shoppers, fewer and fewer were willing to pay the full sticker price.

There's something odd, almost presumptuous, about the notion of stepping directly from an automobile into the wilderness.

There are sensors in the front of the automobile that detect a collision.

Your first step should be to reconsider your automobile dependency.

Calculate the fuel efficiency of your automobile by tracking your mileage and fuel usage.

The automobile is for transport, the stove is for cooking.

My own fuel-efficient automobile could barely make it without stalling.

Focuses on automobile and coffee production and consumption.

Such heavy automobile use contributes to poor air quality and, of course, increased carbon dioxide loads in the atmosphere.

There is also evidence that they increase the risk of automobile accidents.

Researchers claim to wirelessly break into automobile networks to take control of brakes and.

He was a prominent carriage and automobile manufacturer and besides had extensive traction interests.

From automobile plants to investment banks, companies are looking at new ways to build products and deliver.

Such an evolution would continue to benefit parts suppliers at the expense of today's integrated automobile manufacturers.

We would act as if the automobile had never been invented.

Videogame publishers used to scramble to license automobile brands for use in their games.

There is demand from automobile and aerospace manufacturers to outsource engineering and design work.

Fueling the automobile fleet primarily with ethanol rather than gasoline might increase air pollution, a new study finds.

Electricity really is the ideal form of propulsion for the automobile because it is clean and quiet.

Their flexible-fuel, light automobile industry deserves an article all of it's own.

Trappers kill the cowbirds by asphyxiating them with automobile exhaust or by breaking their.

The driver would pump hydrogen gas into a tank of comparable size to automobile gas tanks today.

But then, no doubt buggy whip manufacturers were unhappy when the automobile made them obsolete, too.

But soot particles from automobile exhaust or other types of pollution can also serve the purpose.

It will be safer than automobile racing, and not much more dangerous than football.

It wasn't the only time in his youth de'Silva would defy expectations in favor of an automobile.

The system was exhausted by the end of the war and there was no attempt to reinvest when the automobile was so clearly preferred.

It is an annual reminder that the automobile has yet to be eclipsed as the.

The consumer still has the option to forego operating an automobile and thus legally avoid the cost of auto insurance.

Louis, the locus of aerospace and automobile manufacturing, is headquarters of the world's largest brewing company.

The urban sins of the automobile are numerous indeed.

Automobile manufacturers are drastically reducing their expenses and cutting the time.

More people will then move from automobile transportation to foot which will cause more people to stay off the road.

The troll squashes an ill-fated automobile in his left hand.

The government isn't going to kill the gas powered automobile industry and the big car companies certainly are not going to do.

Motorcycle engines are twice as efficient as automobile engines, she notes, so they generally emit less carbon dioxide.

It's a shame some nice old buildings were lost, but train travel was superceded by the automobile.

The idea was to make the transition from airplane to automobile as quick and seamless as possible.

The automobile had a major role in the rise of suburbs.

New technologies that revolutionized the automobile industry were explored.

The tax would vary by the type and weight of automobile.

Fusion power cells will last for decades, for longer than the life of the automobile.

If you want to go out and enjoy the wonders of the night sky, you really need an automobile with a full tank of gas.

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automobile (ˈɔːtəməˌbiːl)

—n
	another word (esp US) for car

automobilist

—n

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automobile

1883, in ref. to electric traction cars, from Fr. automobile (adj.), 1861, from Gk. autos "self" + Fr. mobile "moving," from L. mobilis "movable." Meaning "self-propelled motor vehicle" is from 1895, from Fr., short for véhicule automobile. The modern Gk. calls it autokineto "moved of itself."

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The Fr. word had competition in the early years from locomobile; in Eng. other early forms were motorcar and autocar.

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