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tram1    Audio Help   [tram] Pronunciation Key, noun, verb, trammed, tram·ming.
–noun
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.
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
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]

tramless, adjective
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–noun
1.trammel (def. 3).
–verb (used with object)
2.Machinery. to adjust (something) correctly.

[Origin: 1880–85; short for trammel]
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tram3    Audio Help   [tram] Pronunciation Key,
–noun
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    Audio Help   (trām)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. Chiefly British
    1. A streetcar.
    2. A streetcar line.
  2. A cable car, especially one suspended from an overhead cable.
  3. A four-wheeled, open, box-shaped wagon or iron car run on tracks in a coal mine.

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    Audio Help   (trām)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. An instrument for gauging and adjusting machine parts; a trammel.
  2. Accurate mechanical adjustment: The device is in tram.

tr.v.   trammed, tram·ming, trams
To adjust or align (mechanical parts) with a trammel.


[Short for trammel.]

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tram 3    Audio Help   (trām)  Pronunciation Key 
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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tram

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 

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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
Arabic: تْرام، عَربَة تْرام
Chinese (Simplified): 有轨电车
Chinese (Traditional): 有軌電車
Czech: tramvaj
Danish: sporvogn
Dutch: tram
Estonian: tramm
Finnish: raitiovaunu
French: tramway
German: die Straßenbahn
Greek: τραμ
Hungarian: villamos
Icelandic: sporvagn
Indonesian: trem
Italian: tram
Japanese: 市街電車
Korean: 시가 전차
Latvian: tramvajs
Lithuanian: tramvajus
Norwegian: trikk, sporvogn
Polish: tramwaj
Portuguese (Brazil): bonde
Portuguese (Portugal): carro eléctrico
Romanian: tramvai
Russian: трамвай
Slovak: električka
Slovenian: tramvaj
Spanish: tranvía
Swedish: spårvagn
Turkish: tramvay
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.
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Tram

Tram\, v. i. To operate, or conduct the business of, a tramway; to travel by tramway.
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Tram

Tram\, n. (Mech.) Same as Trammel, n., 6.
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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.
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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.
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