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Definition: TROLLY |
TROLLYNoun1. A truck which travels along the fixed conductors, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car. 2. A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes. 3. A narrow cart that is pushed by hand or drawn by an animal. 4. A form of truck which can be tilted, for carrying railroad materials, or the like. |
Date "TROLLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references) |
"TROLLY" is a common misspelling or typo for: troll, trolley, truly. |
Crosswords: TROLLY |
| Specialty definitions using "TROLLY": TROLLY LOLLY. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Trackless Trolly (1928) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "TROLLY" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TROLLY" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "TROLLY": hoist travelling trolly. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
diego san trolly | 33 |
trolly | 33 |
chicago trolly | 9 |
shopping trolly | 5 |
boston tour trolly | 5 |
chicago free trolly | 5 |
lolly trolly | 4 |
trolly car | 4 |
market picture super trolly | 4 |
jolly trolly | 4 |
tour trolly | 3 |
old town trolly | 3 |
francisco san trolly | 3 |
portland trolly | 3 |
old tour town trolly | 2 |
new orleans trolly | 2 |
boston trolly | 2 |
dc tour trolly washington | 2 |
rental trolly | 2 |
diego san schedule trolly | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "TROLLY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 台车 (trolley). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | løbekat (hoist travelling trolly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | takeldrager (hoist travelling trolly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | nosturin kulkuvaunu (hoist travelling trolly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | chariot porte-palan (hoist travelling trolly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Wagen (baby carriage, bus, car, caravan, carriage, cars, cart, coach, dare, dared, durst, hazard, machine, pram, railway carriage, risk, to risk, to take a chance, trolley, trollies, Van, vehicle, vehicular, venture, waggon, wagon, wain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | κινητό φορείο με παλάγκο (hoist travelling trolly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 트롤리 (trolley). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ollytray trole móvil de grúa (hoist travelling trolly), carro móvil de grúa (hoist travelling trolly). (various references) kranvagn (crane truck). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "TROLLY": trollying. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "l-l-o-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: tolyl, troll. | |
-2 letters: lory, roll, rotl, ryot, toll, tory, troy, tyro. | |
-3 letters: lot, ort, rot, tor, toy, try. | |
-4 letters: lo, or, oy, to, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "l-l-o-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: trolley. | |
+2 letters: mortally, trolleys, trollopy. | |
+3 letters: allometry, allopatry, allostery, allotropy, frontally, pellitory, rostrally, tolerably, trolleyed, trollying. | |
+4 letters: cortically, dilatorily, erotically, heliolatry, immortally, lustrously, notarially, orientally, pastorally, rationally, redolently, resolutely, solitarily, sportfully, temporally, tolerantly, toroidally, trigonally, trolleybus, trolleying, tropically, ulteriorly, vortically. | |
+5 letters: acropetally, bibliolatry, corpulently, crystalloid, desultorily, doctrinally, editorially, effortfully, elaborately, electorally, electrology, electrolyte, electrolyze, forgetfully, intolerably, maladroitly, motorically, nocturnally, oscillatory, pictorially, polycrystal, revoltingly, robotically, sartorially, storyteller, torsionally, tremulously, trophically, troublously, vectorially, voluntarily, worthlessly. | |
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