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cart
[ kahrt ]
noun
- a heavy two-wheeled vehicle, commonly without springs, drawn by mules, oxen, or the like, used for the conveyance of heavy goods.
- a light two-wheeled vehicle with springs, drawn by a horse or pony.
- any small vehicle pushed or pulled by hand.
- Obsolete. a chariot.
verb (used with object)
- to haul or convey in or as if in a cart or truck:
to cart garbage to the dump.
verb (used without object)
- to drive a cart.
verb phrase
- to transport or take away in an unceremonious manner:
The police came and carted him off to jail.
CART
1abbreviation for
- Championship Auto Racing Teams
cart
2/ kɑːt /
noun
- a heavy open vehicle, usually having two wheels and drawn by horses, used in farming and to transport goods
- a light open horse-drawn vehicle having two wheels and springs, for business or pleasure
- any small vehicle drawn or pushed by hand, such as a trolley
- put the cart before the horseto reverse the usual or natural order of things
verb
- usually tr to use or draw a cart to convey (goods, etc)
to cart groceries
- tr to carry with effort; haul
to cart wood home
cart
3/ kɑːt /
noun
- radio television short for cartridge
Derived Forms
- ˈcartable, adjective
- ˈcarter, noun
Other Words From
- carta·ble adjective
- carter noun
- un·carted adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of cart1
Word History and Origins
Origin of cart1
Idioms and Phrases
- on the water cart, British. wagon ( def 14 ).
- put the cart before the horse, to do or place things in improper order; be illogical.
More idioms and phrases containing cart
- upset the applecart
Example Sentences
When the object was carted away later that day by the KSA, the buzz gave way to concerns about what the villagers had had in their midst.
With a vacation looming before me, I clicked on the ad and went shopping, gleefully filling my online cart.
Other finds have been made at the site including World War Two artefacts and an Iron Age wooden axle from a chariot or cart.
Trainers called for the injury cart, and Molden was wearing a walking boot in the locker room.
His second-eldest son, Eric Trumpov, posted an image on X that showed the US adding Greenland, the Panama Canal and Canada to an Amazon online shopping cart.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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