Meaning

6 senses

  1. A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, often with two wheels on one axle, more often used for transporting goods than passengers.

    The grocer delivered his goods by cart.

    Wagen, Karre, Karren

    теле́гаteléga, возvoz, пово́зкаpovózka

    візviz, візо́кvizók

    wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels

  2. A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart.

    Kart

  3. (Internet)A shopping cart.

  4. (informal)A tape cartridge used for pre-recorded material such as jingles and advertisements.

  5. (informal)A cartridge for a computer or video game system.

    My Final Fantasy cart on the NES is still alive and kicking.

  6. (informal, slang)A cartridge containing cannabis oil or another drug for use in vape pens; a detachable clearomizer, usually threaded and prefilled.

    Whoah! Where did you get a DMT cart?

Examples

105 sentences

  1. Don't put the cart before the horse.

    Не треба ставити віз перед конем.

    ruНе ставь телегу поперёд лошади.

    deZäum das Pferd nicht beim Schwanz auf!

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  2. Tom got in the golf cart.

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  3. We should get a shopping cart.

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  4. I saw a horse pulling a cart.

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  5. I can't even drive a golf cart.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
small, open, wheeled vehicle — see also wagon:
Русский
By meaning 1
small, open, wheeled vehicle — see also wagon:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
small, open, wheeled vehicle — see also wagon:
small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go cart:

Origin

From Middle English cart, kart, from Old Norse kartr (“wagon; cart”), merged with native O

From Middle English cart, kart, from Old Norse kartr (“wagon; cart”), merged with native Old English cræt (“a chariot; cart”), from Proto-Germanic *krattaz, *krattijô, *kradō, from Proto-Indo-European *gret- (“tracery; wattle; cradle; cage; basket”), from *ger- (“to turn, wind”).

Clipping of cartridge.

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Forms

plural: carts
Singularcart
Pluralcarts

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
kart
Close in meaning

Word family

78 related words
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See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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