Ghetto vs Car - What's the difference?
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An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law.
* 2009 , Barbara Engelking-Boni, Jacek Leociak, The Warsaw ghetto: a guide to the perished city (ISBN 0300112343), page 25:
* 2010 , Mike Lindner, Leaving Terror Behind: A Boy's Journey to Painting Over the Past (ISBN 1615664149), page 49:
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An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity or race.
* 1998 , Steven J. L. Taylor, Desegregation in Boston and Buffalo: The Influence of Local Leaders (ISBN 0791439194), page 15:
* 1998 , Arnold R. Hirsch, Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960 (ISBN 0226342441), page 253:
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An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
* 2006 , Gay tourism: culture and context (Gordon Waitt, Kevin Markwell, ISBN 0789016036), page 201:
* 2007 , Romania & Moldova (Robert Reid, Leif Pettersen, ISBN 1741044782), page 190:
* 2001 , Justin Taylor, ''The Gospel of Anarchy: A Novel (ISBN 0061881821), page 64:
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Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
(slang, informal) Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
* {{quote-book, title=Army Life: The First Four Months in My First Duty Station, page 15,
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(US, informal) Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
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Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.
To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.
* 1964 , James A. Atkins, The age of Jim Crow , page 274:
* 2001 , Paul Johnson, Modern Times Revised Edition: World from the Twenties to the Nineties (ISBN 0060935502), page 526:
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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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, 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.
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(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 :
As nouns the difference between ghetto and car
is that ghetto is while car is friend.As a verb car is
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English
Noun
- The Venetian ghetto', according to Sennett, was to provide protection from the unclean bodies of the Jews and their sullying touch. The Roman ' ghetto , on the other hand, was planned as an area for mission. It was supposed to collect the Jews in one place, so that it would be easier to convert them.
- Charlestown would also become one of Boston's three large Irish ghettoes .
- By 1960 the growth and development of Chicago's black areas of residence confirmed the existence of the city's second ghetto .
- Counterhegemonic spaces imagined as bounded territories ensure that heteronormativity is fixed beyond the borders of the gay ghetto . The rural and suburban lives of lesbian and gay people are made invisible and signified as inauthentic.
- The student ghetto , southwest of the centre, is inside the triangle formed by [three streets] and is full of open-air bars, internet cafés, fast-food shops — and students.
- They're back in the student ghetto now, on oak-shaded streets lined with run-down houses filled with nonnuclear families of all varieties and kinds. Safe now from the tractor beams of the horrible good Christians,
Derived terms
* ghetto blaster, ghettoblaster * ghettoise, ghettoizeAdjective
(en adjective)- My apartment's so ghetto, the rats and cockroaches filed a complaint with the city!
- I like to drive ghetto cars; if they break down you can just abandon them and pick up a new one!
Derived terms
* nonghettoVerb
(es)- This is, in brief, a part of the story of the ghettoing of a large segment of Denver's Negro population.
- All African states practised racist policies. In the 1950s and 1960s, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia expelled more than a quarter of a million Jews and ghettoed the few thousand who remained. In the 1960s the United Republic of Tanzania expelled its Arabs or deprived them of equal rights.
car
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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.