tram
Significat (anglès)
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- A passenger vehicle for public use that runs on tracks in the road (called a streetcar or trolley in North America).
- A similar vehicle for carrying materials.
- A people mover.
- An aerial cable car.
- A train with wheels that runs on a road; a trackless train.
- A car on a horse railway or tramway (horse trams preceded electric trams).
- (obsolete) The shaft of a cart.
- (obsolete) One of the rails of a tramway.
Sinònims
cable tramway
aerial tramway
motor-car
street car
tram-car
tram-line
trolley-bus
municipal railway
city streetcar
tram car
trackless trolley
electric trolley
light-rail vehicle
light-rail vehicle
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Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/tɹæm/
Etimologia (anglès)
Possibly from Low German traam (“tram, shaft of a barrow”), from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch trame (“narrow shaft, beam”), said to be ultimately from a lost West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) word, probably from Proto-Germanic *drum (“splinter, fragment”), from Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥ (“peg, post, boundary”), cognate with Latin terminus. Compare Middle Low German treme; West Flemish traam, trame. The popular derivation from the surname of the English pioneer tramway builder Benjamin Outram (1764–1805) is false: the term pre-dated him. The sense of a rail vehicle derives from tram-way, in its earliest sense meaning literally a log-covered road, but later applied to the earliest wooden railways, used for transporting coal in carts which came to be called "trams".
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