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car·riage
(kăr′ĭj)n.
1. A wheeled vehicle, especially a four-wheeled horse-drawn passenger vehicle, often of an elegant design.
2. Chiefly British A railroad passenger car.
3. A baby carriage.
4. A wheeled support or frame for carrying a heavy object, such as a cannon.
5. A moving part of a machine for holding or shifting another part: the carriage of a typewriter.
6.
a. The act or process of transporting or carrying.
b. (kăr′ē-ĭj) The cost of or the charge for transporting.
7. The manner of holding and moving one's head and body; bearing. See Synonyms at posture.
8. Archaic Management; administration.
[Middle English cariage, from Norman French, from Old North French carier, to carry; see carry.]
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carriage
(ˈkærɪdʒ)n
1. (Railways) Brit a railway coach for passengers
2. the manner in which a person holds and moves the head and body; bearing
3. a four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle for persons
4. (Mechanical Engineering) the moving part of a machine that bears another part: a typewriter carriage; a lathe carriage.
5.
a. the act of conveying; carrying
b. the charge made for conveying (esp in the phrases carriage forward, when the charge is to be paid by the receiver, and carriage paid)
[C14: from Old Northern French cariage, from carier to carry]
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car•riage
(ˈkær ɪdʒ; for 9 also ˈkær i ɪdʒ)n.
1. a wheeled vehicle for conveying persons, as one drawn by horses and designed for comfort and elegance.
3. Brit. a railway passenger coach.
4. a wheeled support, as for a cannon.
5. a movable part, as of a machine, designed for carrying something: a wide carriage on a dot-matrix printer.
6. bearing of the head and body; posture.
7. the act of transporting; conveyance.
8. the price or cost of transportation.
9. Archaic. management; administration.
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carriage
a fee charged for transportation.
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carriage
– car – truck – wagon1. 'carriage'
Carriage is one of several nouns which are used to refer to vehicles pulled by railway engines.
In British English, a carriage is one of the separate sections of a train that carries passengers.
The man left his seat by the window and crossed the carriage to where I was sitting.
2. 'car'
In American English, these sections are called cars.
In British English, car used to be part of the name of some special kinds of railway carriage. For example, a carriage might be called a dining car, a restaurant car, or a sleeping car. These terms are no longer used officially, but people still use them in conversation.
3. 'truck' and 'wagon'
In British English, a truck is an open vehicle used for carrying goods on a railway.
...a long truck loaded with bricks.
In American English, this vehicle is called a freight car or a flatcar.
The train, carrying loaded containers on flatcars, was 1.2 miles long.
...the nation's third-largest railroad freight car maker.
In British English, a wagon is a vehicle with a top, sides and a sliding door, used for carrying goods on a railway.
The pesticides ended up at several sites, almost half of them in railway wagons at Bajza station.
In American English, vehicles like these are usually called boxcars.
A long train of boxcars, its whistle hooting mournfully, rolled into town from the west.
A truck is also a large motor vehicle used for transporting goods by road.
See lorry - truck
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| Noun | 1. |  carriage - a railcar where passengers ride railcar, railroad car, railway car, car - a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad; "three cars had jumped the rails" nonsmoking car, nonsmoker - a passenger car for passengers who want to avoid tobacco smoke chair car, drawing-room car, palace car, parlor car, parlour car - a passenger car for day travel; you pay extra fare for individual chairs passenger train - a train that carries passengers Pullman, Pullman car - luxurious passenger car; for day or night travel smoking car, smoking carriage, smoking compartment, smoker - a passenger car for passengers who wish to smoke |
| 2. | carriage - a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses axletree - a dead axle on a carriage or wagon that has terminal spindles on which the wheels revolve barouche - a horse-drawn carriage having four wheels; has an outside seat for the driver and facing inside seats for two couples and a folding top brougham - light carriage; pulled by a single horse buckboard - an open horse-drawn carriage with four wheels; has a seat attached to a flexible board between the two axles caroche - a luxurious carriage suitable for nobility in the 16th and 17th century chariot - a light four-wheel horse-drawn ceremonial carriage clarence - a closed carriage with four wheels and seats for four passengers gharry - a horse-drawn carriage in India gig - small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and no hood hansom, hansom cab - a two-wheeled horse-drawn covered carriage with the driver's seat above and behind the passengers horse-drawn vehicle - a wheeled vehicle drawn by one or more horses landau - a four-wheel covered carriage with a roof divided into two parts (front and back) that can be let down separately post chaise - closed horse-drawn carriage with four wheels; formerly used to transport passengers and mail rumble - a servant's seat (or luggage compartment) in the rear of a carriage stanhope - a light open horse-drawn carriage with two or four wheels and one seat surrey - a light four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; has two or four seats trap - a light two-wheeled carriage troika - a Russian carriage pulled by three horses abreast | |
| 3. |  carriage - characteristic way of bearing one's body; "stood with good posture"bodily property - an attribute of the body manner of walking, walk - manner of walking; "he had a funny walk" slouch - a stooping carriage in standing and walking gracefulness - beautiful carriage clumsiness, awkwardness - the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant | |
| 4. | carriage - a machine part that carries something else lathe - machine tool for shaping metal or wood; the workpiece turns about a horizontal axis against a fixed tool mechanism - device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function typewriter - hand-operated character printer for printing written messages one character at a time typewriter carriage - a carriage for carrying a sheet of paper | |
| 5. |  carriage - a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed aroundbassinet - a perambulator that resembles a bassinet wheeled vehicle - a vehicle that moves on wheels and usually has a container for transporting things or people; "the oldest known wheeled vehicles were found in Sumer and Syria and date from around 3500 BC" |
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carriage
noun
1. vehicle, coach, trap, gig, cab, wagon, hackney, conveyance He followed in an open carriage drawn by six gray horses.
3. transportation, transport, delivery, conveying, freight, conveyance, carrying It costs £10.86 for one litre, including carriage.
4. bearing, posture, gait, deportment, air Her legs were long and fine, her hips slender, her carriage graceful.
Related words
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fear amakaphobia
Carriages and carts
barouche, brake, britzka, brougham, buckboard (U.S. & Canad.), buggy, cab, cabriolet, calash or calèche, Cape cart (S. African), cariole or carriole, carriage, carryall, cart, chaise, chariot, clarence, coach, Conestoga wagon, coupe, covered wagon (U.S. & Canad.), curricle, dogcart, drag, droshky, equipage, fiacre, fly, four-in-hand, gharry, gig, Gladstone, hansom, herdic (U.S.), jaunting car or jaunty car, landau, phaeton, post chaise, prairie schooner (chiefly U.S.), pung (Eastern U.S. & Canad.), quadriga (historical), randem, ratha, rig, rockaway (U.S.), sledge, spider phaeton or spider, stagecoach, sulky, surrey, tandem, tarantass, tilbury, troika, victoria, vis-à-vis, wagon, wagonette, wain (chiefly poetic)Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
carriage
noun1. The moving of persons or goods from one place to another:
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Translations
حلمِلَةُ الوَرَق في الآلَةِ الكاتِبَهعَرَبَةعَرَبَةُ خَيْلعَرَبَه، مَرْكَبَهمِشْيَهَ
kočárvůzpostojvagonvagón
hestevognholdningpersonvognskrivemaskinevognwagon
junanvaunujunavaunuryhtitelavaunu
गाड़ी
kola
lovaskocsi
flutningavagnflutningskostnaîurlimaburîursleîivagn
客車
객차
eisenagabenimasgabenimo išlaidoskarietalaikysena
ekipāžaizturēšanāskamaniņaskarietemaksa
kočijavagonvoz
vagn
ตู้โดยสารรถไฟ
vagonatlı arabaduruşşaryotaşıma ücreti
toa hành khách
carriage
[ˈkærɪdʒ]A. N
4. (= bearing) [of person] → porte m
B. CPD carriage clock N → reloj m de mesa
carriage drive N → calzada f
carriage return N (on typewriter etc) → tecla f de retorno
carriage trade N (US) → sector m de transporte de mercancías
carriage drive N → calzada f
carriage return N (on typewriter etc) → tecla f de retorno
carriage trade N (US) → sector m de transporte de mercancías
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
carriage
[ˈkærɪdʒ] n (= horse-drawn vehicle) → voiture f
(= transport) [goods] → transport m
(= cost of transport) → (frais mpl de) port m
carriage forward → port dû
carriage free → franco de port
carriage paid → (en) port payé
carriage forward → port dû
carriage free → franco de port
carriage paid → (en) port payé
[typewriter] → chariot m
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
carriage
n
(= horse-drawn vehicle) → Kutsche f; (US: = baby carriage) → Kinderwagen m; carriage and pair → Zweispänner m
(Brit Rail) → Wagen m
(Comm: = conveyance) → Beförderung f; (= cost of carriage also) → Beförderungskosten pl; carriage forward → Fracht zahlt Empfänger; carriage free → frachtfrei; carriage paid → frei Haus
(Mil, = gun-carriage) → Lafette f
(of person: = bearing) → Haltung f
carriage
:carriage clock
n → ˜ Stiluhr f
carriage return
n → Wagenrücklauf m
carriageway
n (Brit) → Fahrbahn f
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
carriage
[ˈkærɪdʒ] na. (Brit) (Rail) → carrozza, vagone m, vettura; (horse-drawn) → carrozza; (of typewriter) → carrello
b. (of person, bearing) → portamento
c. (Comm) (of goods) → trasporto; (cost of carriage) → (spese fpl di) trasporto
carriage free → franco di porto
carriage paid → porto pagato
carriage forward → porto assegnato
carriage free → franco di porto
carriage paid → porto pagato
carriage forward → porto assegnato
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
carriage
(ˈkӕridʒ) noun1. the act or cost of conveying and delivering goods. Does that price include carriage?
2. a vehicle for carrying (especially in Britain, railway passengers). the carriage nearest the engine; a railway carriage.
3. especially formerly, a horse-drawn passenger vehicle.
4. the part of a typewriter which moves back and forwards, carrying the paper.
5. posture; way of walking.
ˈcarriageway nounespecially in Britain, the part of a road used by cars etc. The overturned bus blocked the whole carriageway.
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carriage
→ عَرَبَة vůz hestevogn Waggon βαγόνι carruaje, vagón junanvaunu wagon kola carrozza 客車 객차 rijtuig vogn wagon vagão вагон vagn ตู้โดยสารรถไฟ vagon toa hành khách 车厢Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
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