Garage vs Auto - What's the difference?
garage | auto |
A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.
* {{quote-book, year=1931, author=
, title=Death Walks in Eastrepps
, chapter=2/2 (chiefly, British, Canada, Australia, NZ) A place where cars are .
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=7 (chiefly, British, Canada, Australia, NZ) A petrol filling station.
An independent automobile repair shop.
(attributive) A type of guitar rock music, personified by amateur bands playing in the basement or garage.
(British) A type of electronic dance music related to house music, with warped and time-stretched sounds.
To store in a garage.
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automatic
An automobile.
A .
A setting for automatic operation.
A writ.
An automatic gearbox / transmission.
A car with an automatic gearbox / transmission.
As nouns the difference between garage and auto
is that garage is a building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items while auto is an automobile.As a verb garage
is to store in a garage.As an adjective auto is
automatic of a gearbox / transmission.As a proper noun Auto is
an unincorporated community in West Virginia.garage
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=A little further on, to the right, was a large garage , where the charabancs stood, half in and half out of the yard.}}
citation, passage=The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages , the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.}}
Usage notes
Historically a commercial garage would offer storage, refueling, servicing, and repair of vehicles. Since the mid-late 20th Century, storage has become uncommon at premises having the other functions. Now refueling, servicing, and repair are becoming increasingly separated from each other. Few repair garages still sell petrol; it is very uncommon for a new filling station to have a mechanic or any facilities for servicing beyond inflating tires; and a new kind of business exists to provide servicing: the oil/lube change shop.Synonyms
* (a petrol filling station) filling station, gas station (North America), petrol station (UK)Derived terms
* garage band * garage rock * garage sale * garage startup * parking garage * speed garage * UK garageVerb
(garag)- We garaged the convertible during the monsoon months.