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  1. noun An automobile.
  2. noun A vehicle, such as a streetcar, that runs on rails: a railroad car.
  3. noun A boxlike enclosure for passengers and freight on a conveyance: an elevator car.
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  • So the car was the clean environmental alternative to a horse and buggy. —  Dean Kamen on inventing and giving
  • Driving a car is a-- is a really empowering act for a young child, so this is the ultimate. —  Gever Tulley on 5 dangerous things for kids
  • With 240V / 32A, charging time for the car will be around four hours. —  AutoblogGreen
  • The little coves at the rear of the glass work much better than we thought, and combined with the otherwise classic touring-car proportions and glass roof, this car is a looker (as long as you don't look it in the mouth). —  Jalopnik
  • This car is American built. 75\% of it's parts are not imported from Japan either. —  The Car Connection
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  1. 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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  1. Early modern English also carre, from Middle English carre (also assibilated char, charre, chare, cf. charet, chariot), from Old French car, also carre (assibilated char, later F. char), = Provencal car = Spanish Portuguese Italian carro = Dutch kar = Middle Low German kare = Old High German carra, charra, charro, Middle High German G. karre (also Old High German garra, garro, Middle High German garre) = Icelandic kerra = Danish karre = Swedish kärra = Bohemian kára = Polish kara = Lithuanian karas, from Middle Latin carrus, masculine, carra, feminine, a wheeled vehicle, Latin carrus, a two-wheeled vehicle for transporting burdens; of Celtic origin: Breton karr, a chariot, = Welsh car, a raft, frame, drag, = Old Gaelic car, a car, cart, or raft, = Irish carr, a cart, drag, wagon; perhaps akin to L. currus, a chariot, currere, run, Sanskrit √ char, move. Hence ult. carack (carick, carrick), career, cargo, caricature, caroche, carriage, carry, carruca, cart, charge, charet, chariot, discharge, etc.
  2. Middle English ker, from Icelandic kjarr, plural kjörr, copse, brushwood (cf. kjarrmy¯rr, a marsh over-grown with brushwood: my¯rr = English mire), = Norwegian kjerr, kjarr, a marsh, especially a marsh overgrown with brushwood, = Swedish kärr, a marsh, fen, morass, moor, = Danish kær, formerly kjær, a marsh, bog, thicket, pool. Cf. carse.
  3. Scots, also written kar, ker, cair, caar, carry, from Middle English car, kerre, from Gaelic caerr, left, left-handed, awkward.
  4. English dial., abbreviation of carry.
  5. from Middle English *car, *carre, from Anglo-Saxon (Old Northumbrian) carr, a rock, apparently from Gaelic carr, a rocky shelf or projecting part of a rock. Cf. cairn.
  6. Perhaps another use of car.
 

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