Tramcar

Definition: Tramcar

Tramcar

Noun

1. A four-wheeled wagon that runs on tracks in a mine; "a tramcar carries coal out of a coal mine".

2. A wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity: "`tram' and `tramcar' are British terms".

Date "tramcar" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1885. (references)

Domain	Definition
Electrical Engineering	A motor vehicle used in the method of transport defined under locomotive. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	Eng. A car used in coal mines. Syn:tram. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Tramcar

Synonyms: streetcar (n), tram (n), trolley (n), trolley car (n). (additional references)

Synonyms by domain: car (electrical engineering, transportation), streetcar, trolley car.

Crosswords: Tramcar

English words defined with "tramcar": tram. (references)

"Tramcar" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tramcar" is used about 32 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
Noun (singular)	100%	32	61,292

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.

Language		Translations for "tramcar"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		tramvaj (streetcar, tram, trolley car). (various references)

Arabic		‏عربة ترام, ‏شاحنة في نجم. (various references)

Basque		tranbia. (various references)

Bulgarian		трамвайна кола (surface-car), трамвай (streetcar, tram, trolley, trolley car). (various references)

Chinese		有轨�"�车. (various references)

Danish		sporvognskøretøj (streetcar, trolley car), sporvogn (streetcar, trolley car), sporvejskøretøj (streetcar, trolley car). (various references)

Dutch		tramwagen (streetcar, trolley car), tramstel (streetcar, trolley car), tramrijtuig (streetcar, trolley car), tram (streetcar, tram). (various references)

Finnish		raitiovaunu (streetcar, tram, tram streetcar). (various references)

French		tramway (tram, trolley). (various references)

German		Straßenbahnwagen (streetcar). (various references)

Greek		κάρρον τροχιοδρόμου, όχημα τραμ (streetcar, trolley car), βαγόνι τραμ (streetcar, trolley car), τραμ (railway, streetcar, tram). (various references)

Hebrew		חשמלית (car, street car, tram, trolley). (various references)

Italian		tram (streetcar, tram), carrozza tranviaria (streetcar, trolley car). (various references)

Occitan		tramvai. (various references)

Pig Latin		amcartray

Portuguese		eléctrico (electric), carro eléctrico (streetcar, trolley car). (various references)

Russian		трамвай (streetcar, tram, tramway, trolley, trolley car, trolley-car). (various references)

Spanish		tranvía (streetcar, tram, trolley). (various references)

Swedish		spårvagn (car, streetcar, tram, trolley, trolley car). (various references)

Turkish		tramvay vagonu (trolley), tramvay (cable railway, street car, streetcar, tram). (various references)

Ukrainian		трамвайний вагон. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "tramcar": tramcars. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Tramcar" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: transair, Tranzair, Triscari, trocar, Trumka. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-m-r-r-t"
	-1 letter: amtrac, tarmac.
	-2 letters: carat.
	-3 letters: acta, atma, carr, cart, cram, maar, marc, mart, tram.
	-4 letters: act, ama, arc, arm, art, cam, car, cat, mac, mar, mat, ram, rat, tam, tar.
	-5 letters: aa, am, ar, at, ma, ta.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-m-r-r-t"
	+1 letter: tramcars.
	+2 letters: macerator, matriarch.
	+3 letters: camorrista, comparator, crematoria, lacrimator, macerators, matriarchs, matriarchy, parametric.
	+4 letters: comparators, dramaturgic, lachrymator, lacrimators, matriarchal, scattergram, tetradrachm.
	+5 letters: chromatogram, lachrymators, manufacturer, matriarchate, matriarchies, metacercaria, overdramatic, programmatic, scattergrams, tetradrachms.
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