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Full Definition of CAR. 1 : a vehicle moving on wheels: as. a archaic : carriage, chariot. b : a vehicle designed to move on rails (as of a railroad) c : automobile. 2 : the passenger compartment of an elevator. 3 : the part of an airship or balloon that carries the passengers and cargo. source: Merriam-webster.com.
4a. "= gondola-car n. U.S.", which is glossed as "U.S. a railway car having a platform body with low sides." 4b. "An elongated car attached to the under side of a dirigible balloon or airship. [German, Dutch gondel.] Also transf., applied to a structure that resembles such a car in its purpose and mode of attachment." 4c. "The car attached to a ...
Most of the responses here are apparently based on British usage. In the US, "tenant" is the one who pays rent and occupies the space, "renter" is the same (more or less) as "tenant", as is "lessee", and "landlord" (or "lessor") is the person to whom you pay the rent.
The back of the car seat (No.16) is called the seat back but it can also be referred to as a backrest. A support for a person’s back when they are seated Oxford Dictionaries The seat 12 includes a generally horizontal seat cushion portion or seat cushion 14 and a generally upright seat back portion or seat back 16 pivotally connected to the ...
soup up (v.) 1: To increase the power, efficiency, or performance of. Soup up an engine. 2: To heighten the impact of: to make more exciting or colorful. Etymology. soup (drug injected into a racehorse to improve its performance) First Known Use. 1924, in the meaning defined at sense 1. M-W.
Merriam-Webster defines stock car as: a racing car having the basic chassis of a commercially produced assembly-line model. And if we dip back into the Ultimate Hot Rod Dictionary, we get related definitions: bones 1. n. Original wood substructure supporting sheetmetal body panels on most mid-1930s and earlier vintage vehicles. 2. n.
Oct 4, 2013 at 13:40. I'm in the UK and am British - 'taxi' usually means a black taxi cab, whereas cab is a shortened form of 'minicab', meaning a car with driver you've hired which isn't a black taxi cab. so generally, its minicab or taxi, and they definitely mean different things. – bamboo.
It’s likely that the current use of “lemon” to mean “something that doesn’t live up to its billing” or “a disappointing purchase” comes from a combination of “lemon” in the “sucker” sense (i.e., the buyer got “taken”) and the much older sense of “lemon” meaning “something undesirable.”.
For the dog analogy, either it dies or nobody in the car is concerned. The dog's aggressive attempt to achieve "catching" the car is a miscalculation. There is zero intent to convey a goal or achievement was reached, because the goal was to attack the car which is the silliness implied in the statement.
That said, "X of mine" is mostly used when you want to indicate that something is one of many that you own or are associated with. If, say, you have many cars, you might point to one and say, "That is a car of mine." But if you only have one, you normally say, "That is my car." (If you have many, you could also say, "That is one of my cars.")