Trolley vs Carriage - What's the difference?
trolley | carriage |
(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.
To bring to by trolley.
To use a trolley vehicle to go from one place to another.
The act of conveying; carrying.
Means of conveyance.
A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.
(British) A rail car, esp. designed for the conveyance of passengers.
A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself, bearing, gait.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
* 2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 90:
(archaic) One's behaviour, or way of conducting oneself towards others.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 407:
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , I:
The part of a typewriter supporting the paper.
(US, New England) A shopping cart.
(British) A stroller; a baby carriage.
The charge made for conveying (especially in the phrases carriage forward'', when the charge is to be paid by the receiver, and ''carriage paid ).
Related to a wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.
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*:Athelstan Arundel walked home […], foaming and raging.He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage -horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
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*:a delighted shout from the children swung him toward the door again. His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ "Phil! You! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow!" recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.
In british terms the difference between trolley and carriage
is that trolley is a gurney while carriage is a stroller; a baby carriage.As nouns the difference between trolley and carriage
is that trolley is a cart or shopping cart while carriage is the act of conveying; carrying.As a verb trolley
is to bring to by trolley.As an adjective carriage is
related to a wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.trolley
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Alternative forms
* trollyNoun
(en-noun)Derived terms
* off one's trolley * trolleybus * trolley dolly * trolley jackVerb
carriage
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Noun
(en noun)- The carriage ride was very romantic.
- His carriage was full comely and vpright, / His countenaunce demure and temperate [...].
- He chose to speak largely about Vietnam [...], and his wonderfully sonorous voice was as enthralling to me as his very striking carriage and appearance.
- He now assumed a carriage to me so very different from what he had lately worn, and so nearly resembling his behaviour the first week of our marriage, that [...] he might, possibly, have rekindled my fondness for him.
- Some people whisper but no doubt they lie, / For malice still imputes some private end, / That Inez had, ere Don Alfonso's marriage, / Forgot with him her very prudent carriage [...].
