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Audio Help [tram] Pronunciation Key, noun, verb, trammed, tram·ming.
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| 1. | British. a streetcar. |
| 2. | a tramway; tramroad. |
| 3. | Also called tram·car
Audio Help [tram-kahr] Pronunciation Key. a truck or car on rails for carrying loads in a mine. |
| 4. | the vehicle or cage of an overhead carrier. |
| 5. | to convey or travel by tram. |
[Origin: 1490–1500 for an earlier sense; 1820–30 for def. 2; orig. shafts of a barrow or cart, rails for carts (in mines); perh. < MD trame beam]
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tramless, adjective
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| silk that has been slightly or loosely twisted, used weftwise in weaving silk fabrics. |
Compare organzine.
[Origin: 1300–50 for an earlier sense; 1670–80 for current sense; ME tram(m)e machination, contrivance < OF traime weft, cunning contrivance < L trāma warp]
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| tram 1
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tr.v. trammed, tram·ming, trams To move or convey in a tram. [Scots, shaft of a barrow, probably from Middle Flemish.] |
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| tram 2
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tr.v. trammed, tram·ming, trams To adjust or align (mechanical parts) with a trammel. [Short for trammel.] |
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| tram 3
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n. A heavy silk thread used for the weft, or cross threads, in fine velvet or silk. [Middle English, contrivance, from Old French traime, contrivance, weft, from Latin trāma, weft, woof.] |
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tram
c.1500, "beam or shaft of a barrow or sledge," also "a barrow or truck body" (1516), Scottish, originally in reference to the iron trucks used in coal mines, probably from Middle Flemish tram "beam, handle of a barrow, bar, rung," a North Sea Gmc. word of unknown origin. The sense of "track for a barrow, tramway" is first recorded 1826; that of "streetcar" is first recorded 1860. Tram-car is attested from 1873.
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noun | |
| 1. | a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers [syn: tramway] |
| 2. | a four-wheeled wagon that runs on tracks in a mine; "a tramcar carries coal out of a coal mine" [syn: tramcar] |
| 3. | a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity [syn: streetcar] |
verb | |
| 1. | travel by tram |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
tram [trӕm] noun
(also ˈtramcar: American ˈstreetcar) a long car running on rails and usually driven by electric power, for carrying passengers especially along the streets of a town
See also: tramway
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Tram
Tram\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trammed; p. pr. & vb. n. Tramming.] To convey or transport on a tramway or on a tram car.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Tram
Tram\, v. i. To operate, or conduct the business of, a tramway; to travel by tramway.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Tram
Tram\, n. (Mech.) Same as Trammel, n., 6.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Tram
Tram\, n. [Prov. E. tram a coal wagon, the shaft of a cart or carriage, a beam or bar; probably of Scand, origin; cf. OSw. tr[*a]m, trum, a beam, OD. drom, Prov. & OHG. tram.]1. A four-wheeled truck running on rails, and used in a mine, as for carrying coal or ore. 2. The shaft of a cart. [Prov. Eng.] --De Quincey. 3. One of the rails of a tramway. 4. A car on a horse railroad. [Eng.] Tram car, a car made to run on a tramway, especially a street railway car. Tram plate, a flat piece of iron laid down as a rail. Tram pot (Milling), the step and support for the lower end of the spindle of a millstone.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Tram
Tram\, n. [Sp. trama weft, or F. trame.] A silk thread formed of two or more threads twisted together, used especially for the weft, or cross threads, of the best quality of velvets and silk goods.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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