tandem
A carriage pulled by two or more draught animals harnessed one behind the other, both…A carriage pulled by two or more draught animals (generally draught horses) harnessed one behind the other, both providing pulling power but only the animal in front being able to steer.
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» He drove horses tandem out of town.
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Examples
10 sentencesHe drove horses tandem out of town.
He knew how to drive horses tandem.
Benedito wants to ride a tandem hang glider.
Meaning
6 senses(also, attributive, broadly, countable, uncountable)A thing with two components arranged one behind the other.
If you want a canoe that can seat both of you comfortably, you’ll need a tandem.
an arrangement of two or more objects or persons one behind another
(also, attributive, countable, figuratively)A group of two or more machines, people, etc., working together; hence (uncountable), close collaboration.
танде́мtandɛ́m, па́раpára
(also, attributive, countable)A carriage pulled by two or more draught animals (generally draught horses) harnessed one behind the other, both providing pulling power but only the animal in front being able to steer.
More meanings 3
(also, attributive, broadly, countable, uncountable)Two draught animals (generally draught horses) harnessed one behind the other.
(also, attributive, broadly, countable, uncountable)A hollow metal tube containing radioactive material, inserted through the vagina into the uterus to treat gynecological cancer.
(also, attributive, figuratively, uncountable)A method of language learning based on mutual exchange, where ideally each learner is a native speaker in the language the other person wants to learn.
Forms
plural: tandemsSynonyms
2 synonyms- a bicycle with two sets of pedals and two seats:bicycle-built-for-twotandem bicycle
Word family
13 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.