CARとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kɑː/, [kʰɑː]
• (Scotland) IPA: [kʰäɾ]
• (General American) IPA: /kɑɹ/, [kʰɑ̝̹ɹ]
  • (Boston) IPA: [kʰaː]
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /kaː/, [kʰäː]
• (Ireland) IPA: /kʰɑɹ/
  • (Local Dublin) IPA: /kʰʲæɹ/
• 異形同音異義語: carr, Carr, Karr
• 韻: -ɑː(ɹ)

語源 1

Inherited from 中期英語 carre, borrowed from Anglo-Norman carre, from Old Northern French (compare Old French char), from Latin carrus (“two-wheeled baggage wagon”), from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”). Doublet of carrus and horse.

別の表記

• carr (archaic)

名詞

car (plural cars)

1. A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry and a bus.

   Synonyms: auto, motorcar, vehicle, (US) automobile, (Britain, colloquial) motor, (obsolete) carriage; see also Thesaurus:automobile

   He drove his car to the theatre.

   He was thinking about buying a brand new car.

   • 2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown‎, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG:

     I'm a stunt; ride in the car with some bump in the trunk.

   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion‎:

     If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] .

   • 2019 November 17, Sarah Holt, “Verstappen wins Brazilian GP as Ferraris collide AND Gasly and Sainz claim first F1 podiums”, in CNN‎:

     The race around the Interlagos circuit in São Paolo effectively became a 12-lap dash to the flag when Valtteri Bottas triggered the safety car after he pulled his Mercedes over with engine trouble.

   • 2020 September 19, Peter Valdes-Dapena, “I hate to say it, but Ferrari’s new convertible is worth every penny”, in CNN‎:

     Then, of course, there are the cars themselves. The most valuable classic car ever sold at auction was a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO that sold for more than $48 million in 2018. Of the top ten most valuable cars ever sold at auction, six are Ferraris.

2. (archaic) A wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal.
   • 1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     It shall suffice me to enioy your loue,
     Which whiles I haue, I thinke my selfe as great,
     As Caesar riding in the Romaine streete,
     With captiue kings at his triumphant Carre.

   • c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene viii]:

     He has deserved it [armour], were it carbuncled
     Like holy Phoebus’ car.

   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 19:

     The Red Foliot sate in his car of polished ebony, drawn by six black horses with flowing manes and tails; before him went his musicians, pipers and minstrels doing their craft, and behind him fifty spearmen, weighed down with armour and ponderous shields that covered them from chin to toe.

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 87:

     In a poem by Sappho, Aphrodite is represented as riding in a car drawn by sparrows.

   1. (archaic) A cart.
   2. (archaic) A chariot.
   3. (UK, Birmingham, obsolete) A four-wheeled cab, as opposed to a (two-wheeled) Hansom cab.
3. Any vehicle designed to run on rails, especially an unpowered one towed by being connected to others.
   1. (rail transport, chiefly Canada, US) An unpowered unit in a railroad train, used to hold either passengers or cargo.

      Synonyms: railcar, wagon, carriage

      The conductor coupled the cars to the locomotive.

   2. A similar vehicle used in special contexts, such as mines, quarries, and mills.

      Hyponyms: mill car, mine car, quarry car, skip car

   3. (rail transport) an individual vehicle, powered or unpowered, in a multiple unit.

      The 11:10 to London was operated by a 4-car diesel multiple unit.

   4. (rail transport) A passenger-carrying unit in a subway or elevated train, whether powered or not.

      From the frontmost car of the subway, he filmed the progress through the tunnel.

   5. A rough unit of quantity approximating the amount which would fill a railroad car.

      Synonyms: carload, wagonload

      We ordered five hundred cars of gypsum.

      • 1907, Texas Agricultural, Mechanical College System, Bulletin, volumes 93-117, page 5:

        This market reports only one or two cars per day, selling by the hundred weight, and at a price a little lower than that of Indian corn.

4. The moving, load-carrying component of an elevator or other cable-drawn transport mechanism.

   Fix the car of the express elevator - the door is sticking.

5. The passenger-carrying portion of certain amusement park rides, such as Ferris wheels.

   Synonym: carriage

   The most exciting part of riding a Ferris wheel is when your car goes over the top.

6. The part of an airship, such as a balloon or dirigible, which houses the passengers and control apparatus.

   Synonyms: gondola, (balloons only) basket

   • 1850, John Wise, A System of Aeronautics, page 152:

     Everything being apparently in readiness now, I stepped into the car of the balloon, […]

   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     "What about a car?" "The car will be my next care. I have already planned how it is to be made and attached. Meanwhile I will simply show you how capable my apparatus is of supporting the weight of each of us."

7. (sailing) A sliding fitting that runs along a track.
   • 1995, Ken Textor, The New Book of Sail Trim‎, →ISBN, page 201:

     On boats 25 feet or more, it is best to mount a mast car and track on the front of the mast so you can adjust the height of the pole above the deck

8. (uncountable, US, informal) The aggregate of desirable characteristics of a car.

   Buy now! You can get more car for your money.

9. (US) A floating perforated box for living fish.
10. (US, prison slang) A clique or gang.
11. (Internet, humorous) Deliberate misspelling of cat.

下位語

派生語

関連する語

• carriage
• chariot

派生した語

• → French: car
• → Russian: кар (kar)
• ⇒ Sanskrit: कारयान (kārayāna)
• → Tamil: கார் (kār)
• → Japanese: カー (kā)
• → Hindi: कार (kār)
• → Urdu: کار (kār)

参考

• bus
• truck
• van

語源 2

Acronym of contents of the address part of register number. Note that it was based on original hardware and has no meaning today.

名詞

car (plural cars)

1. (programming) The first part of a cons in Lisp. The first element of a list.

   Antonym: cdr

   Holonym: cons

   • 2000, Matt Kaufmann, Panagiotis Manolios, J Strother Moore, Computer-aided reasoning: an approach:

     The elements of a list are the successive cars along the "cdr chain." That is, the elements are the car, the car of the cdr, the car of the cdr of the cdr, etc.

派生語

• cadr
• caddr

Gallery

• 
  A hydrogen-powered car
• 
  Freight cars
• 
  A self-propelled passenger car
• 
  Ferris wheel cars
• 
  Car on a sailboat
• 
  Car of a Zeppelin

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “car”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “car”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• ARC, CRA, RAC, RCA, acr-, arc, arc-, rac-