Tram vs Funicular - What's the difference?
tram | funicular |
(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.
Of, pertaining to, resembling, or powered by a rope or cable
(botany) Having a fleshy covering of the seed formed from the funiculus, the attachment point of the seed.
A particular type of rail transit system which ascends a steep urban or mountain incline, having usually two cars sharing a single track, with the cars linked by a cable and an arrangement of pulleys such that the descending car assists in the hoisting of the ascending car, i.e. the two cars serve as counterweights for each other.
As nouns the difference between tram and funicular
is that tram is a passenger vehicle for public use that runs on tracks in the road while funicular is a particular type of rail transit system which ascends a steep urban or mountain incline, having usually two cars sharing a single track, with the cars linked by a cable and an arrangement of pulleys such that the descending car assists in the hoisting of the ascending car, i.e. the two cars serve as counterweights for each other.As a verb tram
is to transport (material) by tram.As an adjective funicular is
of, pertaining to, resembling, or powered by a rope or cable.tram
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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)