car meaning

• Noun: car  kaa(r)
  1. A motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
     "he needs a car to get to work"
     - auto, automobile, machine, motorcar 
  2. A wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railway
     "three cars had jumped the rails"
     - railcar, railway car [Brit, Cdn], railroad car [N. Amer], railway carriage [Brit, Cdn], bogie [Asia] 
  3. The compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant
     - gondola 
  4. [N. Amer] Where passengers ride up and down
     "the car was on the top floor"
     - elevator car [N. Amer] 
  5. A conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway
     "they took a cable car to the top of the mountain"
     - cable car

  Derived forms: cars

  Type of: automotive vehicle, compartment, motor vehicle, wheeled vehicle

  Part of: airship, cable railway, dirigible [N. Amer], elevator, funicular, funicular railway, lift [Brit], railroad train [N. Amer], railway train [Brit, Cdn], train

  Encyclopedia: Car

• 
  [Architecture]
  

  See elevator car.

• 
  [Defence]
  Chief of the Army Reserve
• 
  [Finance]
  A loose quantity term sometimes used to describe the amount of a commodity underlying one commodity contract; e.g., "a car of bellies." Derived from the fact that quantities of the product specified in a contract once corresponded closely to the capacity of a railroad car.

[Mechanical engineering]
See automobile
• 
  [Computer]
  1. A circuit board.
  
  2. A punched card.
  
  3. <hypertext> An alternative term for a node in a system (e.g. HyperCard, Notecards) in which the node size is limited.

• car.:    abbrevCarolus (Lat ...
• in-car:    adj.within a car: ...
• air-car:     noun  O ...

Examples

1. when can you take delivery of the car?
2. i already knew about the lousy cars.
3. inertia carried the car to the pavement.
4. we left the car and walked for a little.
5. when a car is out of gear it cannot run.