Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An automobile.
- n. A vehicle, such as a streetcar, that runs on rails: a railroad car.
- n. A boxlike enclosure for passengers and freight on a conveyance: an elevator car.
- n. The part of a balloon or airship that carries people and cargo.
- n. Archaic A chariot, carriage, or cart.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A wheeled vehicle or conveyance, especially one having only two wheels. The two-wheeled passenger-conveyance much used in Ireland and specifically called a jaunting-car.
- n. A chariot of war, triumph, or pageantry; in poetic and figurative usage, any elaborate conveyance used in proceedings characterized by dignity, solemnity, or splendor: as, Phœbus's car; the car of Juggernaut; a triumphal car.
- n. A vehicle running upon rails. See horse-car, railroad-car.
- n. The basket of a balloon, in which the aëronaut sits.
- n. A wood or grove, generally of alders, on a moist soil.
- n. Any hollow place or marsh.
- Left, as opposed to right.
- To carry.
- n. A rock.
- n. An abbreviation of carat.
- n. See caer-.
- To carry or transport on a car.
- To travel by car; go in a car: sometimes with an indefinite it.
- n. A yellowish brown sediment deposited from water which contains salts of iron, as in the drainage from coal-mines. Also carr.
Wiktionary
- n. A wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal
- n. A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, steered by a driver mostly for personal transportation; a motor car or automobile
- n. An unpowered unit in a railroad train.
- n. an individual vehicle, powered or unpowered, in a multiple unit.
- n. A passenger-carrying unit in a subway or elevated train, whether powered or not.
- n. A rough unit of quantity approximating the amount which would fill a railroad car.
- n. The moving, load-carrying component of an elevator or other cable-drawn transport mechanism.
- n. The passenger-carrying portion of certain amusement park rides, such as Ferris wheels.
- n. The part of an airship, such as a balloon or dirigible, which houses the passengers and control apparatus.
- n. A sliding fitting that runs along a track.
- n. The aggregate of desirable characteristics of a car.
- n. The first part of a cons in LISP. The first element of a list.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A small vehicle moved on wheels; usually, one having but two wheels and drawn by one horse; a cart.
- n. A vehicle adapted to the rails of a railroad.
- n. A chariot of war or of triumph; a vehicle of splendor, dignity, or solemnity.
- n. The stars also called Charles's Wain, the Great Bear, or the Dipper.
- n. The cage of a lift or elevator.
- n. The basket, box, or cage suspended from a balloon to contain passengers, ballast, etc.
- n. A floating perforated box for living fish.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad
- n. a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
- n. the compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant
- n. a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway
- n. where passengers ride up and down
Etymologies
- 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.
Examples
“The more he thought about it, the more E.erhard sensed the time might be exactly right for starting a car company — an E. V.-car company at that.”
“- I got a new car, which has also become my new hobby. * it's a beautiful fast car* I have good mentors, one good one mostly, who has been there when i'm lost for answers on why it does the things i don't want it to do.”
“Seriously, the Exige is one super quick car * specially designed to be a track car*, and the Mustang is, well, just a run of the mill muscle car - a very good one, but still designed more for the street, than the track.”
“I'll meet you at the car Krystal: ok * By paint* Kristina: Now I'm looking at for a bright pink*Looking around and notices a cute boy* Kristina: Well don't he look good * Boy walks by and bumps Kristina* Boy: I'm so sorry I didn't mean to*smiles at her* Kristina: it's ok*pays for paint and goes meet her mom at the car* Krystal: why are you so smiley?”
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“Vehicle features: ** bmw full free warranty and full free maintenance good till 50,000 miles**clean car fax and 1 owner california car** popular and hard to find jet black 2006 bmw”
“Vehicle features: ** bmw full free warranty and full free maintenance good till 50,000 miles**clean car fax and 1 owner california car**. well equipped with moonroof, power front seats, automatic climate control, hi-fi sound system, steptronic automatic transmission, rain sensor and auto headlight, dynamic cruise control and dark burl walnut wood trim. **test drive it today!”
“As they walked they at times stopped and walked again continuing their _tête-à-tête_ (which, of course, he was utterly out of) about sirens enemies of man's reason, mingled with a number of other topics of the same category, usurpers, historical cases of the kind while the man in the sweeper car or you might as well call it in the sleeper car who in any case couldn't possibly hear because they were too far simply sat in his seat near the end of lower Gardiner street _and looked after their lowbacked car_.”
“However, I’d be very uncomfortable driving down the road with my two kids and seeing porn playing in the car in front of me (#1 son -- “Hey mom, there’s a really cute dog in that car get closer!”).”
“I think the racing car is an Indy car from the 70s.”
“Somewhat disappointingly for Inspector Morse fans, Ming's main car is a VW Passat.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘car’.
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Sweet tooth fairy dominoes
As originally suggested on sweet tooth fairy domino:
Each person adds one word trying to create a single, potentially infinite sweet tooth fairy (please look it up if you are not familiar wit...banana, boat, house, arrest, warrant, peace, sign, post, box, clever, Hans, device and 115 more...
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50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
walking, bicycle, bus, train, motorcycle, airplane, car, truck, segway, limousine, roller coaster, wheelbarrow and 119 more...
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The Pain of Texting
Words that are a pain in the ass to type in on a numerical keypad on a cell phone because they have consecutive letters that share the same button:
2 - ABC
3 - DEF
4 - GHI...defcon, hi, no, attitude, xylophone, on, monday, monkey, mono, dig, back, babble and 212 more...
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3 Letter Words
A list of English words that are three letters long.
ace, act, ade, ado, add, ads, age, ago, ail, air, aim, all and 397 more...
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Words Heard Too Often In Songs
Words overused in modern pop music.
Also see ruzuzu's list: Words that should be heard in songs more often.love, heart, dance, dancefloor, down, take, want, night, fight, baby, like, ooooh and 135 more...
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transportation
change, car, vehicle, cart, baggage, waiting room, ticket, bicycle, life jacket, railway, shared taxi, ferry and 27 more...

bilby I'm convinced soundeffects 1 is uselessness pretending to be a belligerent lawnmower. Feb 11, 2010
JDWright The BBC says "The word 'car' has been in use since at least 1382. It comes from the Latin 'carrus,' a two-wheeled vehicle for carrying burdens."
Example:
"Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth" --Erma Bombeck Jul 29, 2009