car

A vehicle with four wheels and an engine, used to carry a few people on roads.

• Our car is blue.
• She drove her car to work.
• Where did you park the car?

Similar words: automobile, auto

Common phrases: drive a car, by car, car park, a new car

One of the separate sections of a train, carrying people or goods.

• We sat in the last car.
• The train has six passenger cars.
• They served breakfast in the dining car.

Similar words: carriage, wagon, coach

Common phrases: railroad car, dining car, freight car, sleeping car

The part of a lift or cable transport system that moves while carrying people or goods.

• The elevator car stopped suddenly.
• Six people stepped into the lift car.
• The cable pulled the car up the steep slope.

Similar words: cabin

Common phrases: elevator car, lift car, cable car

An amount of goods large enough to fill one railway wagon.

• They ordered a car of coal.
• Three cars of grain arrived yesterday.
• The factory receives twenty cars of gypsum each month.

How to use it: a car of something (The mine shipped a car of coal.)

Similar words: carload, wagonload

Common phrases: a car of coal, a car of grain, a car of timber