CART

cart

(noun) a heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal

handcart, pushcart, cart, go-cart

(noun) wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels; “he used a handcart to carry the rocks away”; “their pushcart was piled high with groceries”

cart

(verb) transport something in a cart

haul, hale, cart, drag

(verb) draw slowly or heavily; “haul stones”; “haul nets”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Proper noun

Cart (plural Carts)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Cart is the 23135th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1103 individuals. Cart is most common among White (94.11%) individuals.

Anagrams

• -crat, C-rat, RACT, crat

Proper noun

CART

Acronym of Championship Auto Racing Teams, a defunct sanctioning body for open-wheel racing in motorsports in the United States of America. (Compare USAC, FIA.)

Noun

CART (plural CARTs)

Classification and regression tree

Anagrams

• -crat, C-rat, RACT, crat

Etymology 1

Noun

cart (plural carts)

A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, more often used for transporting goods than passengers.

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

(Internet) A shopping cart.

Verb

cart (third-person singular simple present carts, present participle carting, simple past and past participle carted)

(transitive) To carry goods.

(transitive) To carry or convey in a cart.

(transitive) To remove, especially involuntarily or for disposal.

(transitive, obsolete) To expose in a cart by way of punishment.

Etymology 2

Noun

cart (plural carts)

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

(video games, informal) A cartridge for a video game system.

Anagrams

• -crat, C-rat, RACT, crat

Source: Wiktionary


Cart, n. Etym: [AS. cræt; cf. W. cart, Ir. & Gael. cairt, or Icel. kartr. Cf. Car.]

1. A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian dwelling on wheels, or a chariot. "Phoebus' cart." Shak.

2. A two-wheeled vehicle for the ordinary purposes of husbandry, or for transporting bulky and heavy articles. Packing all his goods in one poor cart. Dryden.

3. A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, atc.

4. An open two-wheeled pleasure carriage. Cart horse, a horse which draws a cart; a horse bred or used for drawing heavy loads.

– Cart load, or Cartload, as much as will fill or load a cart. In excavating and carting sand, gravel, earth, etc., one third of a cubic yard of the material before it is loosened is estimated to be a cart load.

– Cart rope, a stout rope for fastening a load on a cart; any strong rope.

– To put (or get or set) the cart before the horse, to invert the order of related facts or ideas, as by putting an effect for a cause.

Cart, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Carted; p. pr. & vb. n. Carting.]

1. To carry or convey in a cart.

2. To expose in a cart by way of punishment. She chuckled when a bawd was carted. Prior.

Cart, v. i.

Definition: To carry burdens in a cart; to follow the business of a carter.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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