Streetcar vs Tram - What's the difference?
streetcar | tram |
(US) A tram or light rail vehicle, usually a single car, but also attached together, operating on city streets. A trolley car.
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(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.
Tram is a synonym of streetcar.
As nouns the difference between streetcar and tram
is that streetcar is a tram or light rail vehicle, usually a single car, but also attached together, operating on city streets. A trolley car while tram is a passenger vehicle for public use that runs on tracks in the road.As a verb tram is
to transport (material) by tram.streetcar
English
(Tram)Noun
(en noun)- Tired as he felt at night, and dark and bitter cold as it was in the morning, Jurgis generally chose to walk; at the hours other workmen were traveling, the streetcar monopoly saw fit to put on so few cars that there would be men hanging to every foot of the backs of them and often crouching upon the snow-covered roof.
Synonyms
* tram (UK)Anagrams
*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)