noun
car
KAR/kɑːr/
A passenger or cargo compartment carried on wheels or a guided track.
The compact car has room for passengers behind the front seats.
Etymology
The ancestor named a wheeled vehicle, associated with a two-wheeled Celtic war chariot. English car retained the broader vehicle meaning before it was extended to the automobile.
In context
for a car we move the steering wheel and we press the pedals which turn the wheels and revs the engine producing forces and torques on that vehicle
More examples
- The train's dining car opens at noon.
- The elevator car stops smoothly on the fourth floor.
- She parks her car beside the library.
Forms
car · cars
Similar words
- automobile
- Specifically a road motor vehicle rather than railway or elevator compartments.
- vehicle
- The broader category of machines used for transportation.