Cart vs Wagon - What's the difference?
cart | wagon |
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.
To carry goods.
To carry or convey in a cart.
(obsolete) To expose in a cart by way of punishment.
* Prior
(video games, informal) A cartridge for a video game system.
A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads.
A freight car on a railway.
A child's riding toy, four-wheeled and pulled or steered by a long handle in the front.
(US, Australia, slang) A station wagon (or SUV).
(slang) A paddy wagon.
A truck, or lorry.
(Ireland, slang, dated, derogatory) (A derogatory term for a woman); bitch; slapper; cow.
* 1974 , in Threshold , Issues 25–27, Lyric Players Theatre, page 96:
* 1990 , Roddy Doyle, The Snapper , Penguin Group (1992), ISBN 978-0-14-017167-9:
* 1998 , Neville Thompson, Two Birds/One Stoned , Poolbeg:
Wagon is a coordinate term of cart.
In transitive terms the difference between cart and wagon
is that cart is to carry or convey in a cart while wagon is to transport by means of a wagon.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)Derived terms
* cartwheel * dogcart * go-cart * golf cart * luggage cart * oxcart * pushcart * put the cart before the horse * shopping cartVerb
(en verb)- I've been carting these things around all day .
- She chuckled when a bawd was carted .
References
Etymology 2
Shortened from (cartridge).Noun
(en noun)- My ''Final Fantasy'' cart on the NES is still alive and kicking.
Anagrams
* *wagon
English
Alternative forms
* waggon (UK)Noun
(en noun)- “I’m not like that; I know what you mean but I’m not like that. When you said a field I nearly laughed because I was in a field last week with Ursula Brogan behind the football pitch. We followed Cissy Caffery there and two boys from the secondary. She’s a wagon . She did it with them one after the other, and we watched.”
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: —Don’t know. ——She hates us. It’s prob’ly cos Daddy called her a wagon at tha’ meetin’. ¶ Sharon laughed. She got out of bed. ¶ —He didn’t really call Miss O’Keefe a wagon, she told Tracy. —He was only messin’ with yeh.
- page 8: “Well fuck yeh, yeh stuck-up little wagon .”