Cart vs Mart - What's the difference?
cart | mart |
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 market.
* (William Cowper)
(obsolete) A bargain.
* 1616 ,
(obsolete) To buy or sell in, or as in a mart.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To traffic.
As a noun cart
is to split, kill, put (to death).As a proper noun mart is
march (third month of the gregorian calendar) or mart can be mar (march).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
* *mart
English
Etymology 1
Ultimately from (etyl) mercatus; see market.Noun
(en noun)- Where has commerce such a mart as London?
- Now I play a merchant's part, and venture madly on a desperate mart .
Verb
(en verb)- To sell and mart your officer for gold / To undeservers.