railroad car

Thân thiện

A train pulls several railroad cars along the tracks.

Definition

Noun: 1. A railway vehicle designed for carrying passengers or freight: A single, enclosed unit that runs on railway tracks and is part of a train. It is designed to be coupled with other cars and pulled by a locomotive.

Usage

• A "railroad car" is a single, distinct unit of a train.
• It is used to describe the passenger compartments or freight containers that make up a train, excluding the locomotive.
• The term is often shortened to "car" in American English when the context is clearly about trains (e.g., "dining car," "freight car").

Examples

• Noun:
  • The train was made up of a locomotive and ten passenger railroad cars.
  • Coal was transported in a long line of railroad cars.
  • They ate lunch in the elegant dining car.

Advanced Usage

• "to have a railroad car of [something]": An informal, hyperbolic expression meaning to have a very large amount of something.
  • After the harvest, the farmer seemed to have a railroad car of potatoes.

Variants and Related Words

• Carriage (n): The British English equivalent for a passenger railroad car.
  • We found our seats in carriage number three.
• Wagon (n): The British English equivalent for a freight railroad car.
  • The goods were loaded into a freight wagon.
• Coach (n): Another term, especially in American English, for a standard passenger car.
  • We booked seats in the first-class coach.

Synonyms

• Railway car
• Train car
• Carriage (chiefly British)
• Coach (for passengers)

Related Phrases

• Freight car / Goods wagon: A railroad car designed for transporting cargo.
• Passenger car / Passenger carriage: A railroad car designed for transporting people.
• Dining car / Restaurant car: A railroad car where meals are served.
• Sleeping car / Sleeper: A railroad car with beds for overnight travel.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad
   • three cars had jumped the rails

Từ đồng nghĩa

• car
• railcar
• railway car