Odometer vs Perambulator - What's the difference?
odometer | perambulator |
An instrument attached to the wheel of a vehicle, to measure the distance traversed.
A wheel used by surveyors, which registers distance traversed.
(British) A baby carriage; a pram.
* 1919:
One who perambulates.
A surveyor's instrument for measuring distances, consisting of a wheel that rolls over the ground, along with a clockwork apparatus and a dial plate upon which the distance travelled is shown by an index.
As nouns the difference between odometer and perambulator
is that odometer is an instrument attached to the wheel of a vehicle, to measure the distance traversed while perambulator is a baby carriage; a pram.odometer
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(wikipedia odometer)Alternative forms
* hodometer (dated) * odometre (nonstandard)Noun
(en noun)perambulator
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Noun
(en noun)- That will be all this afternoon," he said to the nurse, who got up with the baby and decanted it into a ''perambulator'' which was standing in the fairway.
