Car vs Accident - What's the difference?
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(dated) A wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal.
A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation; a motorcar or automobile.
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, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=1 (rail transport, chiefly, North America) An unpowered unit in a railroad train.
(rail transport) an individual vehicle, powered or unpowered, in a multiple unit.
(rail transport) A passenger-carrying unit in a subway or elevated train, whether powered or not.
A rough unit of quantity approximating the amount which would fill a railroad car.
The moving, load-carrying component of an elevator or other cable-drawn transport mechanism.
The passenger-carrying portion of certain amusement park rides, such as Ferris wheels.
The part of an airship, such as a balloon or dirigible, which houses the passengers and control apparatus.
* {{quote-book, 1850, , 3=
, passage=Everything being apparently in readiness now, I stepped into the car of the balloon,
(sailing) A sliding fitting that runs along a track.
* {{quote-book, 1995, Ken Textor, The New Book of Sail Trim, page=201
, passage=On boats 25 feet or more, it is best to mount a mast car and track on the front of the mast so you can adjust the height of the pole above the deck }}
(uncountable, US) The aggregate of desirable characteristics of a car.
(US) A floating perforated box for living fish.
Image:TOYOTA FCHV 01.jpg, A hydrogen-powered car .
Image:Train wagons 0834.jpg, Freight cars .
Image:RandenTrain.jpg, A self-propelled passenger car .
Image:Ferris wheel - melbourne show 2005.jpg, Ferris wheel cars .
Image:Traveller (sailing).jpg, Car on a sailboat.
Image:ZeppelinLZ127b.jpg, Car of a Zeppelin.
Image:240 Sparks Elevators.jpg, Elevator cars .
(computing) The first part of a cons in LISP. The first element of a list
* Matt Kaufmann, Panagiotis Manolios, and J Strother Moore, Computer-aided reasoning: an approach , 2000 :
An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences.
* c.1603 , (William Shakespeare), , I-iii,
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= Any chance event.
(uncountable) Chance.
* c.1861-1863 , (Richard Chevenix Trench), in 1888, Letters and memorials , Volume 1,
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(transport, vehicle) An unintended event such as a collision that causes damage or death.
Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential.
* 1883 , , Social life in Greece from Homer to Menander? ,
(euphemistic) An instance of incontinence.
* 2009 , Marcia Stedron, My Roller Coaster Life as an Army Wife , Xlibris Corporation, ISBN 1462817890,
(euphemistic) An unintended pregnancy.
(philosophy, logic) A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness'', ''softness .
* 1902 , William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience , Folio Society 2008, page 171:
(grammar) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.
(geology) An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.
(heraldry) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
(legal) casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
(military) An unplanned event that results in injury (including death) or occupational illness to person(s) and/or damage to property, exclusive of injury and/or damage caused by action of an enemy or hostile force.
(uncountable, philosophy, uncommon) Appearance, manifestation.
* 14thC , (Geoffrey Chaucer), '' in ''(The Canterbury Tales) ,
* 1677 , Heraclitus Christianus: or, the Man of Sorrow , chapter 3, page 14:
* 1989 , Iysa A. Bello, The medieval Islamic controversy between philosophy and orthodoxy , page 55:
* 2005 , Muhammad Ali Khalidi, Medieval Islamic philosophical writings , page 175:
* 2010 , T. M. Rudavsky, Maimonides , page 142:
As nouns the difference between car and accident
is that car is friend while accident is an unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences.As a verb car
is (lb).car
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m) (from .Noun
(en noun)- She drove her car to the mall.
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- The conductor coupled the cars to the locomotive.
- The 11:10 to London was operated by a 4-car diesel multiple unit
- From the front-most car of the subway, he filmed the progress through the tunnel.
- We ordered five hundred cars of gypsum.
- Fix the car of the express elevator - the door is sticking.
- The most exciting part of riding a Ferris wheel is when your car goes over the top.
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- Buy now! You can get more car for your money.
Synonyms
* (private vehicle that moves independently) auto, motorcar, vehicle; automobile (US), motor (British colloquial), carriage (obsolete) * (non-powered part of a train) railcar, wagon * (unit of quantity) carload, wagonload * (passenger-carrying light rail unit) carriage * (part of an airship) gondola, basket (balloons only) * See alsoDerived terms
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* bus * truck * vanEtymology 2
Acronym of c'''ontents]] of the '''a'''ddress part of [[register, '''r egister number . Note that it was based on original hardware and has no meaning today.Noun
(en noun)- The elements of a list are the successive cars''' along the "cdr chain." That is, the elements are the '''car''', the '''car''' of the cdr, the '''car of the cdr of the cdr, etc.
Antonyms
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* * * 1000 English basic words ----accident
English
(wikipedia accident)Noun
- Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, / Of moving accidents by flood and field
Philip J. Bushnell
Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance, passage=Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident . Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.}}
- Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident , / It is the very place God meant for thee;
- This accident , as I call it, of Athens being situated some miles from the sea, which is rather the consequence of its being a very ancient site,
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- We weren’t there long when Karin asked about our dog. When we told her Chris was in the car, she insisted we bring him up to the apartment. I rejected her offer and said he might have an accident on the carpet and I didn’t want to worry about it.
- If they went through their growth-crisis in other faiths and other countries, although the essence of the change would be the same, its accidents would be different.
- These cookes how they stamp, and strain, and grind, / And turne substance into accident , / To fulfill all thy likerous talent!
- But as to Man, all the Fruits of the Earth, all sorts of Herbs, Plants and Roots, the Fishes of the Sea, and the Birds of the Air do not suffice him, but he must disguise, vary, and sophisticate, change the substance into accident , that by such irritations as these, Nature might be provoked, and as it were necessitated.
- Nonetheless, those who have no evidence of the impossibility of the transformation of accident into substance believe that it is death itself which will be actually transformed into a ram on the Day of Resurrection and then be slaughtered.
- It would also follow that God ought to be able to transmute genera, converting substance into accident , knowledge into ability, black into white, and sound into smell, just as he can turn the inanimate into animate
- nor can God effect the transmutation of substances (from accident' into substance, or substance into '''accident''', or substance without ' accident ).
