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Trolley vs Bogie - What's the difference?

trolley | bogie |

As nouns the difference between trolley and bogie

is that trolley is a cart or shopping cart while bogie is structure with axles and wheels under a railway carriage or locomotive, called railroad truck in US English. Also used under semitrailers, and lorries with more than one rear axle.

As a verb trolley

is to bring to by trolley.

trolley

English

Alternative forms

* trolly

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (Australian, New Zealand, British) A cart or shopping cart.
  • (British) A hand truck.
  • (British) A .
  • (British) A gurney.
  • A single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electical line usually for a streetcar.
  • (US) A streetcar or a system of streetcars.
  • (US, colloquial) A light rail system or a train on such a system.
  • A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.
  • A truck which travels along the fixed conductors in an electric railway, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.
  • Derived terms

    * off one's trolley * trolleybus * trolley dolly * trolley jack

    Verb

  • To bring to by trolley.
  • To use a trolley vehicle to go from one place to another.
  • bogie

    English

    Alternative forms

    * bogey * bogy

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rail, British, Australia, New Zealand, Canada) Structure with axles and wheels under a railway carriage or locomotive, called railroad truck in US English. Also used under semitrailers, and lorries with more than one rear axle.
  • (Indian English) Railway carriage
  • .
  • (military) An aircraft of unknown friend/foe status. (compare bandit)
  • (golf) A score one stroke higher than par on any one hole.
  • (music) A toy similar to a violin bow, consisting of a wooden stick with notches along one or more sides or edges to produce a rattly noise when kratzed (stroked) against a hard edge, lip of container etc.
  • A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril.
  • (Ulster Scots) .