noun
- A motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine.
- usage: "he needs a car to get to work"
- synonyms: auto, automobile, machine, motorcar
- A wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad.
- usage: "three cars had jumped the rails"
- synonyms: railcar, railway car, railroad car
- The compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant.
- synonyms: gondola
- Where passengers ride up and down.
- usage: "the car was on the top floor"
- synonyms: elevator car
- A conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway.
- usage: "they took a cable car to the top of the mountain"
- synonyms: cable car
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