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Cart vs Trolley - What's the difference?

cart | trolley |

As nouns the difference between cart and trolley

is that cart is a small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, more often used for transporting goods than passengers while trolley is a cart or shopping cart.

As verbs the difference between cart and trolley

is that cart is to carry goods while trolley is to bring to by trolley.

As a proper noun CART

is acronym of lang=en|Championship Auto Racing Teams, a defunct sanctioning body for open-wheel racing in motorsports in the United States of America.

cart

English

(wikipedia cart)

Etymology 1

Probably from Old English .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, more often used for transporting goods than passengers.
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  • A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart.
    • Derived terms
    * cartwheel * dogcart * go-cart * golf cart * luggage cart * oxcart * pushcart * put the cart before the horse * shopping cart

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To carry goods.
    • I've been carting these things around all day .
  • To carry or convey in a cart.
  • (obsolete) To expose in a cart by way of punishment.
  • * Prior
    • She chuckled when a bawd was carted .

    References

    Etymology 2

    Shortened from (cartridge).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (video games, informal) A cartridge for a video game system.
    • My ''Final Fantasy'' cart on the NES is still alive and kicking.

    Anagrams

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    trolley

    English

    Alternative forms

    * trolly

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (Australian, New Zealand, British) A cart or shopping cart.
  • (British) A hand truck.
  • (British) A .
  • (British) A gurney.
  • A single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electical line usually for a streetcar.
  • (US) A streetcar or a system of streetcars.
  • (US, colloquial) A light rail system or a train on such a system.
  • A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.
  • A truck which travels along the fixed conductors in an electric railway, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.

    • Derived terms

    * off one's trolley * trolleybus * trolley dolly * trolley jack

    Verb

  • To bring to by trolley.
  • To use a trolley vehicle to go from one place to another.