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cart

kɑrt
WordNet
Cart with Cleopatra's Needle plinth
Cart with Cleopatra's Needle plinth
  1. (v) cart
    transport something in a cart
  2. (v) cart
    draw slowly or heavily "haul stones","haul nets"
  3. (n) cart
    a heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal
  4. (n) cart
    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"
Illustrations
Country road near Laren, North Holland. A country road with cart tracks leads through a forest. A woman walks with a bundle of branches on her head.
Country road near Laren, North Holland
Fantasy cityscape with Gothic buildings and cathedral on a square. An ox cart on the right.
Fantasy cityscape with Gothic buildings and cathedral on a square. An ox cart on the right.
Tapestry with a farming village where a cart full of hay is brought in. In the left foreground, smoking and drinking farmers sit on barrels. The carpet has a narrow edge with curled acanthus tendrils around a rod.
Tapestry with a farming village where a cart full of hay is brought in. In the left foreground, smoking and drinking farmers sit on barrels. The carpet has a narrow edge with curled acanthus tendrils around a rod.
Travel group with ox carts en route to Polonnaruwa in Ceylon
Sketchbook consisting of 34 sheets with mainly landscapes with cows, figures and horses with carts.
Sketchbook consisting of 34 sheets with mainly landscapes with cows, figures and horses with carts.
A barnyard with a swineherd, a cart and a woman standing by the well.
A barnyard with a swineherd, a cart and a woman standing by the well.
Porcelain gin jar, painted in underglaze blue and on the glaze red, green, black and gold. The jug is in the shape of a woman in kimono, sitting on a cart with two wheels. Her kimono is pulled up slightly, exposing her lower legs. A hole has been made for the tap on the front of the cart. The head is separate from the body and acts as a cap. Wheels molded on both sides of the cart. The kimono is decorated with clematis, cherry blossom and Paulowna branches. On the front of the cart a rectangular compartment with a cloud dragon and a scalloped cartouche with a lotus vine. The back of the cart with two birds behind bars, prunus blossoms and flower tendrils that continue on the sides. Two corners of the cart were broken off at the front. Imari.
Porcelain gin jar, painted in underglaze blue and on the glaze red, green, black and gold. The jug is in the shape of a woman in kimono, sitting on a cart with two wheels. Her kimono is pulled up slightly, exposing her lower legs. A hole has been made for the tap on the front of the cart. The head is separate from the body and acts as a cap. Wheels molded on both sides of the cart. The kimono is decorated with clematis, cherry blossom and Paulowna branches. On the front of the cart a rectangular compartment with a cloud dragon and a scalloped cartouche with a lotus vine. The back of the cart with two birds behind bars, prunus blossoms and flower tendrils that continue on the sides. Two corners of the cart were broken off at the front. Imari.
Trolley for rope-making, consisting of a brass frame on wheels, equipped with a gear. The large wheel of the gear is positioned lengthwise and has a large number of holes in concentric circles for supports on which rope is rolled up. The cart has only one swivel hook.
Trolley for rope-making, consisting of a brass frame on wheels, equipped with a gear. The large wheel of the gear is positioned lengthwise and has a large number of holes in concentric circles for supports on which rope is rolled up. The cart has only one swivel hook.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
It is illegal in Reno, Nevada to conceal a spray-painted shopping cart in your basement.
  1. Cart
    A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian dwelling on wheels, or a chariot. "Phœbus' cart ."
  2. Cart
    A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, etc.
  3. Cart
    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 ."
  4. Cart
    An open two-wheeled pleasure carriage.
  5. Cart
    To carry burdens in a cart; to follow the business of a carter.
  6. Cart
    To carry or convey in a cart.
  7. Cart
    To expose in a cart by way of punishment. "She chuckled when a bawd was carted ."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
Public telephones in Israel are no longer operated by tokens as they were in the past. They are now operated by magnetic cards known in Hebrew as a telecart (tel-eh-cart). These plastic cards, the same size and shape as a credit card, are available at post offices, some hotel reception desks, street kiosks and dispensing machines.
  1. (n) cart
    A car or chariot.
  2. (n) cart
    A two-wheeled vehicle, shorter and higher set than a car, usually for one horse and often without springs, for the conveyance of heavy goods.
  3. (n) cart
    A cart-load. A cart of coals was formerly in England 8¾ hundredweight by statute.
  4. cart
    To carry or convey in a cart: as, to cart goods.
  5. cart
    To expose in a cart, by way of punishment.
  6. cart
    To use carts for carriage.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Interesting fact
Sylvan N. Goldman of Humpty Dumpty Stores and Standard Food Markets developed the shopping cart so that people could buy more in a single visit to the grocery store. He unveiled his creation in Oklahoma City on June 4, 1937.
  1. (n) Cart
    kärt a two-wheeled vehicle without springs, used for farm purposes, and for conveying heavy loads
  2. (v.t) Cart
    to convey in a cart: to carry publicly in a cart as a punishment—formerly done to bawds
Quotations
It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.
Russian Proverb
Idioms

Putting the cart before the horse - When you put the cart before the horse, you are doing something the wrong way round.

Upset the apple cart - If you upset the apple cart, you cause trouble and upset people.

Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary AS. cræt,; cf. W. cart, Ir. & Gael. cairt, or Icel. kartr,. Cf. Car

Usage in the news

Ripley's Nathan Tucker blocked a Mason Carte extra point attempt in overtime and Ripley survived one of the most competitive battles for the Hatchet in the history of the rivalry game, 17-16. jacksonnewspapers.com

Carts and hand trucks ease heavy lifting . bevindustry.com

Large piles of luggage being carted through Southwest Florida International Airport isn't a good sign. marconews.com

The shopping cart is a strong sign that a member of the Homo sapiens (knowing man) species is nearby. readthehook.com

The Subaru BRZ offers good, clean thrills from a car not unlike a bigger, more refined go-cart. latimes.com

Come by chariot, come by golf cart, come however you can but come to Caesar's Palace. bocabeacon.com

Ruidoso resident Cliff Aldrich fills up shopping carts in Lawrence Brothers IGA s Dash for Groceries, a three minute free shopping spree that Aldrich won. ruidosonews.com

A LA CARTE;Interested in Fine Dining. nytimes.com

John the Baptist Parish sheriff's deputies have arrested three men who are accused of robbing two men and a woman who were riding on a golf cart Saturday night in Reserve . nola.com

"Horse Cart" by Shirley McCay. venturacountystar.com

All those flat screens televisions sticking out of shopping carts in the aisles of Target stores early Friday morning were no optical illusion. retailingtoday.com

Murderous and macabre, Karachi is a patch quilt of robust commerce and urban detritus, where modern seaside high rises loom above mud-caked squatter colonies and much of the water supply is delivered by donkey cart. nytimes.com

If music reproduction drives the sound system design process, the cart is before the horse. svconline.com

The recently-organized authority in charge of developing Allentown's hockey arena and surrounding properties seems to have put the cart before the horse. fmz.com

The Kedoteng sludge cart can maneuver through Jakarta 's narrow streets to service latrines. csmonitor.com

Usage in scientific papers

Since the cart accelerated slowly, 6 dots (representing about two-tenths of a second) look as if they are representing a constant speed.
The role of context and culture in teaching physics: The implication of disciplinary differences

Fig. 7: Pasco low-friction cart and ticker-tape tapper.
The role of context and culture in teaching physics: The implication of disciplinary differences

One important class of RFID applications addresses delay-sensitive dense scenarios, where a large number of RFID Tags must be read within the minimum possible time by a Reader device — think of, e.g., a shopping cart carrying hundreds of tagged items traversing a RFID reading gate.
Pseudo-random Aloha for Enhanced Collision-recovery in RFID

Schaeffer, Conjugaison d’arbres et cartes combinatoires al´eatoires. phd thesis, (1998).
Percolations on random maps I: half-plane models

The model described in Breiman (2001) builds each tree on a bootstrapped sample of the training set using the CART methodology (Breiman et al., 1984).
Consistency of Online Random Forests

Usage in literature

Two-score workers, men, women, and children, a cart and a pair of horses were scattered over it. "The Manxman A Novel - 1895" by Hall Caine

The entire force consisted of the mule and the cart thereto belonging, and the bull and his cart. "Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865" by Carlton McCarthy

She's coming in an old cart that belongs to Farmer Treherne. "Girls of the Forest" by L. T. Meade

He was annoyed by the passing of Gourlay's carts, and he took it out of Sandy Toddle. "The House with the Green Shutters" by George Douglas Brown

There was only one change, and at Upperton the pony-cart would be waiting for me. "Fifty-Two Stories For Girls" by Various

The poor fellow seemed almost past hope, when one day Mr. Goforth brought him to the mission in his cart. "How I Know God Answers Prayer" by Rosalind Goforth

Around the cart crowded twenty people. "The Indifference of Juliet" by Grace S. Richmond

I s'pose you have a lot of goods in your cart; goin' to do some tradin' with the Mingoes, maybe. "Far Past the Frontier" by James A. Braden

Will you trust me with old Moll and the cart to-night? "The Witch of Salem" by John R. Musick

But what is one little airing when one has a new cart? "Mary Jane's City Home" by Clara Ingram Judson

Usage in poetry
Our cart slowly forces
Through sand, and we ride
So near that the horses
Are splashed by the tide.
"The Drive" by Adam Gottlob Oehlenschlaeger Author object (12)
And the owner, a woman,
Did not slouch or stand,
But in her cart sitting
Was as grand as the grand;
"Asses" by Padraic Colum Author object (525)
The potter to hes cart he went,
He was not to seke;
A god to-hande staffe therowt he hent,
Befor Roben he lepe.
"Robin Hood And The Potter" by Andrew Lang Author object (36)
"Yn mey cart y haffe a bowe,
Forsoyt," he seyde, "and that a godde;
Yn mey cart ys the bow
That I had of Robyn Hode."
"Robin Hood And The Potter" by Andrew Lang Author object (36)
That drive afield with carts and ploughs?
Such men are common here,
And pastoral maidens milking cows
Are dwelling everywhere.
"Distant Hills" by John Clare Author object (365)
But these words of Sheriff Packer
Rang above the swelling noise:
"Must I wait and lose my dinner?
Draw away the cart, my boys!"
"Ballad Of Ruth Bay" by Albert Laighton