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cart

UK/kɑːt//kɑɹt/

cart noun: a small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, often with two wheels on one axle, more often used for transporting goods than passengers.

cart: a small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, often with two wheels on one...
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Noun (1)

cart (plural carts)

  1. A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, often with two wheels on one axle, more often used for transporting goods than passengers.
    • The grocer delivered his goods by cart.
    • We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes...1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    kart
  2. A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart.
  3. (Internet) A shopping cart.

Verb

cart (third-person singular simple present carts, present participle carting, simple past and past participle carted)

  1. (transitive) To carry or convey in a cart.
    • "You had better cart in your crops! To-morrow it'll be snowing!"1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 259
  2. (informal, transitive) To carry goods.
    • I've been carting these things around all day.
  3. (transitive) To remove, especially involuntarily or for disposal.
    • On August 4, 1927, Della was carted away to the Norwalk State Hospital, suffering from acute myocarditis2001, Donald Spoto, chapter 2, in Marilyn Monroe: The Biography, page 18
    • Africans themselves practised slavery and an organised trade carted off African slaves to Middle Eastern countries while Europeans were still huddling in caves.2012, Lindsay Rae, Ashley Clements, Sarah Marland, World Poverty for Dummies, →ISBN
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To expose in a cart by way of punishment.
    • She to intrigues was ev'n hard hearted: She chuckled when a bawd was carted1708, Matthew Prior, Paulo Purganti and His Wife

Noun (2)

cart (plural carts)

  1. (informal) A tape cartridge used for pre-recorded material such as jingles and advertisements.
  2. (informal) A cartridge for a computer or video game system.
    • My Final Fantasy cart on the NES is still alive and kicking.
  3. (informal, slang) A cartridge containing cannabis oil or another drug for use in vape pens; a detachable clearomizer, usually threaded and prefilled.
    • Whoah! Where did you get a DMT cart?
    • Elysse got sober before entering college but soon found that seemingly everyone on her dorm floor habitually used weed. ¶ "Not only carts," she said, referring to the cannabis cartridges used in vape pens, "but bongs, pipes, bowls — absolutely everything."2022 June 23, Christina Caron, quoting Elysse, “Teens Are Getting Sick From Products With High THC Levels”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived...

Proper noun (1) capitalized: CART

CART

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of Championship Auto Racing Teams, a defunct sanctioning body for open-wheel racing in motorsports in the United States of America. (Compare USAC, FIA.)

Noun (3) capitalized: CART

CART (plural CARTs)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of classification and regression tree.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Cart

Cart (countable and uncountable, plural Carts)

  1. A surname.
  2. A short river, the River Cart in Renfrewshire council area, Scotland, formed from its tributaries Black Cart Water and White Cart Water.

cart meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu

cart in Hindi

small, open, wheeled vehicle — see also wagon
ठेला ṭhelā, गाड़ी gāṛī, अराबा arābā

cart in Urdu

small, open, wheeled vehicle — see also wagon
گاڑی gāṛī, اَرابَہ arāba

cart in Bengali

কার্ট

cart in Telugu

small, open, wheeled vehicle — see also wagon
బండి baṇḍi
More languagesFewer languages
cart in Sanskrit
अनस् anas
cart in Sinhala
කරත්ත karatta
cart in Pashto
ټانګه ṭānga, ګاډۍ gāḍəy
cart in Arabic
عَرَبَةُ نَقْل ʕarabatu naql, عَرَبَة ʕaraba
cart in Malay
kereta, pedati
cart in Indonesian
kereta
cart in Thai
เกวียน gwiian, รถ rót, ตะเฆ่ dtà-kêe
cart in Vietnamese
xe bò, xe ngựa, xe
cart in Myanmar
လှည်း hlany:

Examples of cart in a sentence

  • He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company...
  • Everything was carted off to the dump by Buddy.2012, Paul Lee, Vignettes, →ISBN, page 197:
  • Vapes are a relatively new innovation, and at this point, the process of feeding cannabis oil to a heat source creates a few challenges for devices like disposable carts to overcome.2023 March 17, Danielle Guercio, “How to Unclog a Vape Pen”, in Lifehacker, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2023:

All 40 example sentences with cart

Synonyms of cart

Forms of cart

Noun
pluralcarts
pluralCARTs
Verb
third-person singular presentcarts
present participlecarting
past participlecarted
pastcarted
Proper noun
pluralCarts

Past tense of cart: carted

Plural of cart: carts

Origin of cart

From Middle English cart, kart, from Old Norse kartr (“wagon; cart”), merged with native Old English cræt (“a chariot; cart”), from Proto-Germanic *krattaz, *krattijô, *kradō, from Proto-Indo-European *gret- (“tracery; wattle; cradle; cage; basket”), from *ger- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with West Frisian kret (“wheelbarrow for hauling dung”), Dutch krat, kret (“crate; wheelbarrow for hauling dung”), German Krätze (“basket; pannier”). Wider cognates include Sanskrit ग्रन्थ (grantha, “a binding”).

Clipping of cartridge.

Words formed from cart

Phrases with cart

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Words that rhyme with cart

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Questions about cart

What does cart mean?
Cart means a small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, often with two wheels on one axle, more often used for transporting goods than passengers.
What is cart in Hindi?
Cart in Hindi is ठेला (ṭhelā), गाड़ी (gāṛī), अराबा (arābā). See Cart meaning in Hindi.
How do you use cart in a sentence?
He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.
What part of speech is cart?
Cart can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce cart?
Cart is pronounced /kɑːt/ (UK).
What is the plural of cart?
The plural of cart is carts.

Words near cart in the dictionary

  1. carstone
  2. carstones
  3. Carswell
  4. Carswells
  5. carsy
  6. cart
  7. cart away
  8. cart horse
  9. cart horses
  10. cart off
  11. cart path

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cart (page history and authors); CART (page history and authors); Cart (page history and authors); cart (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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