carriage
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railcar
8 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Semantic evolution | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | car | |
| Meaning 1 | (dated) a wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal; a chariot. | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | (chiefly Canada, US) an unpowered unit in a railroad train | The conductor coupled the cars to the locomotive. |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | carriage | |
| Meaning 1 | carriage | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | (Britain) A rail car, especially one designed for the conveyance of passengers | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Semantic evolution | |
| Language | French | |
| Lexeme | voiture | |
| Meaning 1 | (historical) car (wheeled vehicle usually pulled by a horse) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | railcar | locomotive à cinq voitures locomotive with five carriages |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | French | |
| Lexeme | char | |
| Meaning 1 | chariot, carriage | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | (Louisiana) train car | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | German | |
| Lexeme | Wagen | |
| Meaning 1 | cart (drawn by a person, by horses, by oxen, etc) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | railroad car | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | Also Eisenbahnwagen. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Serbian | |
| Lexeme | кола (kola) | |
| Meaning 1 | carriage | Grmljavina je tutnjava njegovih kola, kojima se on vozi po nebu i oblacima. Thunder is the rumble of his chariot that he drives through the sky and clouds. |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | railcar | спаваћа кола sleeping car |
| Reference | CLARIN.SI Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 551 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Spanish | |
| Lexeme | carro | |
| Meaning 1 | cart | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | (Latin America) train car | |
| Reference | DRAE | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Spanish | |
| Lexeme | coche | |
| Meaning 1 | carriage, coach (a wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power) | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | railcar | Atención, estación en curva, al salir tengan cuidado de no introducir el pie entre coche y andén Attention, curved station, when exiting be careful not to put your foot between the car and the platform |
| Reference | DRAE | |
| Comment | ||