Trolley vs Pram - What's the difference?
trolley | pram |
(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.
(UK, Australia, New Zealand) A small vehicle, usually covered, in which a newborn baby is pushed around in a lying position; a perambulator.
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(nautical, historical) A flat-bottomed barge used on shallow shores to convey cargo to and from ships that cannot enter the harbour.
(nautical, historical) A similar barge used as platform for cannons in shallow waters which seagoing warships cannot enter.
A type of dinghy with a flat bow.
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As nouns the difference between trolley and pram
is that trolley is (australian|new zealand|british) a cart or shopping cart while pram is a barge (boat).As a verb trolley
is to bring to by trolley.trolley
English
Alternative forms
* trollyNoun
(en-noun)Derived terms
* off one's trolley * trolleybus * trolley dolly * trolley jackVerb
pram
English
Etymology 1
Shortening of (perambulator).Noun
(en noun)page 127,
- Janet Bird née Ollerenshaw was pushing her pram along Tockley High Street.
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- For a start the pram' was heavier than it appeared, and also they were pulling it along very uneven ground. The edge of the field was slightly banked which tilted the ' pram at an angle.
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- Stepping over her, he unbuttoned the pram ?s apron and pulled it back.
- At first he couldn?t make out what the pram' contained. He had to crane himself over, holding his body back from the obscuring light. The ' pram was full of groceries—cabbage, sprouts, potatoes.
Synonyms
* (US) baby carriageCoordinate terms
* (vehicle in which an infant or toddler is pushed in sitting position) baby buggy, pushchair, pusher, strollerDerived terms
* doll's pramEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* prahmNoun
(en noun)page 50,
- Although the pram', like the johnboat, has a squared-off bow as well as stern, the bow lines on the ' pram will be narrower than those encountered on a johnboat.
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- Nothing can beat the simple pleasure of paddling a pram around on a foggy dawn, probing pad flats, stumps and fallen logs for lurking bass.