26984 words

carts

8 definitions • 14 examples
1
a vehicle with either two or four wheels, pulled by a horse and used for carrying goods:

Examples:

The supplies arrived in a horse-drawn cart.
2
a small vehicle with two or four wheels that you push or pull to transport large or heavy objects on:

Examples:

shopping cart We'll need a shopping cart because we need a lot of items.
Why will supermarket carts never move in the direction that you push them in?
3
a place on a website that keeps a record of the items that you have chosen to buy from the website, before you actually buy them:

Examples:

Your cart is currently empty.
Click to add this to your cart.
4
a table on four small wheels with one or more shelves under it, used for serving food or drinks:

Examples:

Betty almost ran me over with her tea cart as I was walking into the office!
Every 30 minutes or so the flight attendant would wheel the drinks cart down the aisle.
5
to take something or someone somewhere, especially using a lot of effort:

Examples:

cart something around informal I've been carting (= carrying) these letters around with me all week, and I still haven't posted them.
cart someone/something away Council workers have carted away all the dead leaves that had collected at the side of the road.
cart someone off informal The men were arrested and carted off (= taken by force) to the police station.
We carted all the rubbish to the bottom of the garden and burned it.
6
abbreviation for Communication Access Real-time Translation: a system for writing down and translating speech as it happens, producing text that can be read on a screen or device, so that people who cannot hear well or who do not speak a particular language can understand it:

Examples:

CART works by transcribing and translating speech into text that appears in real time, on a big screen, a computer, or a mobile device.
The photograph shows CART in action at the United Nations in New York.
You can now enable CART captions in your online meetings.
7
a vehicle with either two or four wheels that is pushed by a person, or pulled by an animal, esp. a horse, and is used for carrying goods
8
A cart is also a shopping cart.

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