Automobile

Synonyms: Automobile

Journey

Vehicle; automobile, train, bus, airplane, plane, autobus, omnibus, subway, motorbike, dirt bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter',trolley, locomotive; legs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters.

Vehicle

Motor car, automobile, limousine, car, auto, jalopy, clunker, lemon, flivver, coupe, sedan, two-door sedan, four-door sedan, luxury sedan; wheels, sports car, roadster, gran turismo, jeep, four-wheel drive vehicle, electric car, steamer; golf cart, electric wagon; taxicab, cab, taxicoach, checker cab, yellow cab; station wagon, family car; motorcycle, motor bike, side car; van, minivan, bus, minibus, microbus; truck, wagon, pick-up wagon, pick-up, tractor-trailer, road train, articulated vehicle; racing car, racer, hot rod, stock car, souped-up car.

Crosswords: Automobile

French (automobile, car, motor car, motorcar, motor-car), Italian (auto, automobile, car, motor, motor car, motorcar).

It's more like freshly-laundered linen handkerchiefs, like a brand new automobile. (Sunset Blvd.; writing credit: Charles Brackett)

We were talking about automobile insurance, only you were thinking about murder (Double Indemnity; writing credit: James M. Cain; Billy Wilder)

Just be glad I didn't invest the gold in that automobile industry (Shanghai Knights; writing credit: Alfred Gough; Miles Millar)

It's a hell of a thing to do to an automobile. (Bandits; writing credit: Harley Peyton)

Anyone with priorities so far out of whack doesn't deserve such a fine automobile. (Ferris Bueller's Day Off; writing credit: John Hughes)

A tree never hits an automobile except in self-defense. (references; author: unknown)

You are an engineer if you rotate your screen savers more frequently than your automobile tires. (references; author: unknown)

Cinque poveri in automobile (1952)

So Does an Automobile (1939)

The Making of an Automobile Tyre (1913)

Le Raid Paris-New York en automobile (1908)

The Automobile Thieves (1906)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Automobile Corporation of GOA Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Chongqing Changan Automobile Co Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Automobile Emission Control & Testing Equipment in Mexico: A Strategic Entry Report, 1996 (reference)

• The 2000-2005 Outlook for Automobile Insurance in North America & the Caribbean (reference)

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Automobile Alternators and Starters Replacement Parts (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• ASE Test Prep Series -- Automobile (A4): Automotive Suspension and Steering (reference)

• Auto Detailing: Step-By-Step Procedures for Complete Automobile Detailing (reference)

• Automobile Service Manual 1998-2002 (reference)

• Comeback: The Fall and Rise of the American Automobile Industry (reference)

• Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• American Automobile Association New Mexico Membership (reference)

• Antique Automobile Club Of America Membership (reference)

• Automobile (reference)

• Automobile Finance Study (reference)

• Automobile Industry Research Notes (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• A&E Top 10 - Cars That Changed The Automobile Industry (reference)

• Automobile Safety on Trial:Mosley V. (reference)

• Driving Passion: America's Love Affair with the Car, Part 1 - Birth of the Automobile (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Take a Ride in My Automobile (reference)

• The Pleasure and Pain of an Automobile (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Automobile Adapter (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Exterior view of mobile Public Health Clinic near Brunswick, GA. Car, automobile. Credit: CDC.

Brown pendulum apparatus gravity meter Named for its inventor, Lt. E. J. Brown, C&GS Lt. Brown died in an automobile accident in 1935. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Caption: Walter Baker and Passenger in Baker's Runabout Automobile, Testing New Storage Battery; April 2, 1902; {06.111/29} (jpg).

Caption: Group Gathered Around Walter Baker's Runabout Automobile, Following Test of New Storage Battery; April 2, 1902; {06.111/31} (jpg).

Hydrotherapy : View of patient in armbath, made from automobile tank. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Photographed standing beside an automobile, probably circa March-May 1919. They are (from left to right): Vice Admiral Robert E. Coontz, Commander, Division 7, Atlantic Fleet; Rear Admiral Thomas Washington, Commander, Division 2, Atlantic Fleet; Rear Admiral Hugo Osterhaus, assigned to the Navy Department; and Rear Admiral Edward W. Eberle, Commander, Division 5, Atlantic Fleet. Credit: NAVY.

View of the building's main entrance, at the foot of 18th Street, seen looking south from across Constitution Avenue, NW, on 26 June 1947. Dark automobile in the left center has U.S. Park Police markings. Taxicab in the center belongs to the American Cab Company. Credit: NAVY.

Architectural drawing for an automobile objective for Gordon Strong, Sugar Loaf Mountain, Montgomery County, Maryland. Perspective rendering. Credit: Library of Congress.

Automobile in crowded street. Credit: Library of Congress.

The "Aerocar," a flying automobile, manufactured in the U.S.--Wings form a trailer for road travel. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Guarantee? We guaranteed it to be an automobile.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Tumor suppressor genes are like the brake pedal of an automobile. (references)

A person who is sleepy and drives is at high risk for an automobile crash. (references)

To use a simple metaphor, the growth-control pathway is like the gas pedal of an automobile. (references)

Business

Five large companies dominate the used automobile market. (references)

Under the Soviet system, to own an automobile was considered a luxury. (references)

In Pakistan automobile purchase may be classified into two broad categories. (references)

Civil Liberties

Mozambique

After identifying Carvalho outside Maputo, the assailants dragged him from his automobile and beat him. (references)

Korea

During demonstrations at a Daewoo automobile factory in April and in labor-related protest marches in June, police and demonstrators clashed. (references)

Tunisia

El-Taief was charged with insulting a police officer after a street altercation with an officer after El-Taief returned to his automobile and found that it had been vandalized. (references)

Economic History

Russia

It also produces a third of Russia's automobile batteries. (references)

Chad

CFAO owns the two main automobile distributors, Tchami and SOCOA. (references)

Poland

Consumer goods and automobile sales have been hard hit by weak domestic demand. (references)

Human Rights

Malaysia

Civil suits involving automobile accidents and landlord-tenant disputes are heard by sessions courts. (references)

Belarus

At the Bruzgi customs-house in the Grodno region, customs officers spent 2 hours searching the personal possessions of former presidential candidate Syamon Domash, who was on his way to Poland via automobile. (references)

Political Economy

TAIWAN

Local content requirements in the automobile and motorcycle industries will be lifted as part of Taiwan's WTO accession. (references)

Trade

Slovak Rep

Cesmad Slovakia (Czech and Slovak Association for International Automobile Transportation) has the same responsibilities for TIR. (references)

France

Textile, automobile, and consumer electronics continue to have relatively high duties, but there is rapidly decreasing regulation. (references)

Taiwan

Similarly, local content requirements in the automobile and motorcycle industries will be eliminated as part of Taiwan's WTO accession. (references)

Travel

Slovak Rep

Most travelers prefer to use Vienna's Schwechat airport and take the airport bus or automobile to Bratislava. (references)

South Africa

With a valid carnet, a visitor may enter South Africa with his automobile for a period not exceeding 12 months. (references)

Slovak Rep

Travel by automobile is also possible, although -- due to many narrow two-lane roads -- travelers often find that car travel can take longer than expected. (references)

Worker Rights

Nicaragua

In Managua over 6,000 children work on city streets, selling merchandise, cleaning automobile windows, or begging. (references)

Australia

The dispute closed several of the country's automobile manufacturers; it ended 2 weeks after the Industrial Relations Commission ordered the termination of the bargaining period, thereby forcing the workers to return to work. (references)

Belarus

In February 2000, the management of the Mogilev Automobile Factory (MAZ) unilaterally suspended its collective bargaining agreement with the local union of the BFTU, evicted the organization from its office, and confiscated office equipment. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "automobile": automobile battery ♦ automobile driver ♦ Automobile Driver Examination ♦ Automobile Driving ♦ automobile engine ♦ automobile factory ♦ automobile horn ♦ automobile industry ♦ automobile insurance ♦ automobile loan ♦ automobile mechanic ♦ automobile race ♦ automobile tire ♦ automobile traffic ♦ automobile trunk ♦ automobile tyre ♦ automobile works ♦ electric automobile ♦ public automobile service ♦ Recycling of Automobile Fuel Tanks. Additional references.

Beginning with "automobile": automobile-free.

Ending with "automobile": pre-automobile.

Afrikaans

motor (car, motor car, motor-car). (various references)

Albanian

automobil (auto, motor car). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سيارة (car, motor, motor car, sedan), ‏ذاتي الحركة (auto, automatic, automatical, self propelling). (various references)

Bulgarian 

автомобилен (automotive, motor, vehicular), автомобил (auto, car, motor, motor car, motorcar). (various references)

Chinese 

汽车 (automotive, Car), 汽車 (car). (various references)

Czech

automobil (buggy, car). (various references)

Danish

bil (car, motor car, motor-car), automobil (car, motor car, motor-car). (various references)

Dutch

automobiel (car, motor car, motor-car), auto (car, motor car, motor-car). (various references)

Esperanto

aŭtomobilo (car, motor car, motor-car). (various references)

Faeroese

bilur (car, motor car). (various references)

Farsi 

ماشین متحرک خودکار, ماشین خودرو, خودرو (Automotive, Weedy, Wild), اتومبیل سوارشدن , اتومبیل راندن (Motor), اتومبیل (Car, Motor). (various references)

Finnish

auto (auto, car, motor car, taxi). (various references)

French

automobile, auto (auto). (various references)

Frisian

auto (car, motor car), wein (car, motor car). (various references)

German

auto (auto, car, motor, motor car, motorcar), selbstbeweglich (automatical), automobil (car, motor car, motorcar). (various references)

Greek 

αυτοκίνητο (auto, car, coupe, motorcar). (various references)

Hebrew 

מכונית (car, motor car, vehicle). (various references)

Hungarian

autó (can, car, coupe, motor car, motor-car, sedan), személygépkocsi (motor car, motor-car, saloon). (various references)

Icelandic

bifreið (car, motor car), bíll (car, motor car). (various references)

Indonesian

mobil (auto, car, mobile, motor car). (various references)

Italian

automobile (auto, car, motor, motor car, motorcar). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

自動車　, 自動車 , 乗用車 , 四輪車 (car), オートマチック車 (autoload, auto-manipulator, automat, automatic camera for detecting and recording speeding vehicles, automatic repeat, automatic return, automatic reverse, automatic transmission car, automation, automaton, autoracing, auto-raise, awning, ball hit over the head of an outfielder, convertible, eau de toilette, exaggeration, exceeding, going beyond, hors d'oeuvre, oatmeal, OB, ode, old boy, open, open account, open caption, open course, open game, open golf, open sandwich, open side, open system, open toaster, open-air, open-end mortgage, opener, opening, opening game, opening number, orb, orbiter, ornament, out-of-bounds, oven, oven toaster, over, over doctor, over fence, over par, overaction, overall, overblouse, overbooking, overborrowing, overcharge, overcoat, overdraft, overdrive, overdub, overflow, overhand, overhand pass, overhand throw, overhang, overhaul, overhaul net, overhead, overhead pass, overhead projector, overheat, overkill, overlap, overlay, overload, overloading, overloan, overnight, overnight bag, overnight photo service, overpace, overpresence, overproof, override, overrun, overshoes, overskill, overslide, overstep, overtime, overture, overweight, overwork, overwrite, overzone, owner, owner system, owner-driver, owner-pilot, self-locking, water of life). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

オートモビル , よんりんしゃ (car), じどうしゃ, じょうようしゃ (addict, constant user). (various references)

Korean 

자동차 (Auto, auto-). (various references)

Lombard

macchina (car, motor car). (various references)

Malay

oto (car, motor car), motokar (car, motor car), mobil (car, motor car). (various references)

Manx

gleashtan (motor car). (various references)

Norwegian

bil (car, motor car, motor-car). (various references)

Papago

hejel memdatham. (various references)

Papiamen

outo (car, motor car). (various references)

Pig Latin