Gondola vs Tram - What's the difference?
gondola | tram |
A small long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, propelled with a single oar, especially in Venice.
A hanging platform or car for transporting people or cargo.
# An enclosed car attached to a cable mechanically lifted up the side of a mountain; an enclosed ski lift; a cable car.
# The car or basket of a hot-air balloon, airship, zeppelin, etc.
# The hanging cart in which a glass-cleaning worker stands to clean exterior glass on tall buildings.
# That part of a transporter bridge that carries passengers, vehicles, along the length of the bridge span.
(rail transport) (US) A type of open railway car with low sides, used to carry heavy freight such as crushed rock or steel.
A free-standing shelving unit in a supermarket.
Image:Venice - Gondola 02.jpg, A Venetian gondola
Image:Wagon tombereau.jpg, A rail transport gondola wagon
Image:Modern airship gondola.jpg, A modern airship gondola
Image:Transbordador puente vizcaya.jpg, A transporter bridge gondola
Image:Aiguille fg03.jpg, A ski lift gondola
Image:Platform window cleaner.jpg, a window cleaners' gondola
(UK, rail transport) A passenger vehicle for public use that runs on tracks in the road.
A similar vehicle for carrying materials.
* 1789 , , centenary edition, 1971, ISBN 304-93570-0.)
(obsolete) The shaft of a cart.
(obsolete) One of the rails of a tramway.
(UK, obsolete) A car on a horse railroad.
To transport (material) by tram.
A silk thread formed of two or more threads twisted together, used especially for the weft, or cross threads, of the best quality of velvets and silk goods.
As nouns the difference between gondola and tram
is that gondola is (boat) while tram is beam (large piece of timber or iron).gondola
English
(wikipedia gondola)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (rail transport) gondola car, gon * (enclosed ski lift) cable carExternal links
* ----tram
English
Etymology 1
Probably from (etyl) trame. The popular derivation from tramway builder is false: the term pre-dated him.Noun
(wikipedia tram) (en noun)- Trams''' are a kind of sledge on which coals are brought from the place where they are hewn to the shaft. A '''tram has four wheels but a sledge is without wheels.
- (De Quincey)