Meaning

3 senses
  1. (Philippines, US)A streetcar moved by gripping to rotating loop of cable running along the track.

  2. Any passenger vehicle attached to a moving cable for propulsion, and guided by some form of rails, on a specially-built track not in a street.

  3. A hanging carriage or car for transporting people or cargo.

    Pendelbahn

    ваго́н кана́тной доро́гиvagón kanátnoj dorógi, кана́тная доро́гаkanátnaja doróga

More definitions
  • a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway

Examples

12 sentences
  1. We went up the mountain by cable car.

    ruМы поднялись на гору на фуникулёре.

    deWir fuhren mit der Seilbahn den Berg hoch.

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  2. Some students take the cable car.

    deEs gibt auch Schüler, die die Seilbahn nehmen.

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  3. Tom took the cable car up the mountain.

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  4. A cable car is a type of vehicle.

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  5. What a nice cable-car this is!

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
hanging carriage:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
hanging carriage:

Forms

plural: cable cars

Synonyms

10 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway:car

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