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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.

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


carless, adjective

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.]
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
CAR
  1. Carina (constellation)

  2. Carolina Panthers

  3. computer-assisted retrieval

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