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car

1   [kahr]
–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.
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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

car

2   [kahr]
–adjectiveChiefly 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 (kɑː) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
—n
1.  a.  motorcar, Also called: automobile a self-propelled road vehicle designed to carry passengers, esp one with four wheels that is powered by an internal-combustion engine
 b.  (as modifier): car coat
2.  a conveyance for passengers, freight, etc, such as a cable car or the carrier of an airship or balloon
3.  (Brit) a railway vehicle for passengers only, such as a sleeping car or buffet car
4.  chiefly (US), (Canadian) a railway carriage or van
5.  chiefly (US) the enclosed platform of a lift
6.  a poetic word for chariot
 
[C14: from Anglo-French carre, ultimately related to Latin carra, carrum two-wheeled wagon, probably of Celtic origin; compare Old Irish carr]

CAR
 
—abbreviation for
compound annual return

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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.).
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Computing Dictionary

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Abbreviations & Acronyms
CAR

  1. Carina (constellation)

  2. Carolina Panthers

  3. computer-assisted retrieval

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