Tram
41tram — [[t]træ̱m[/t]] trams N COUNT: also by N A tram is a public transport vehicle, usually powered by electricity from wires above it, which travels along rails laid in the surface of a street. [mainly BRIT] You can get to the beach easily from the… …
42tram — UK [træm] / US noun [countable] Word forms tram : singular tram plural trams 1) British a long narrow vehicle that travels along metal tracks in the middle of a street and is used as public transport in some places 2) American a cable car that… …
43Tram — Tramway, Kurzform: Tram: Die im Österr. und Schweiz. übliche Bezeichnung für »Straßenbahn« wurde im 19. Jh. aus engl. tramway »Straßenbahn‹schienen, strecke›« entlehnt. Das engl. Wort ist eine Bildung aus engl. tram »‹Holz›schiene;… …
44Tram — *1. D Trämma (?) springant auf mich. (Oberösterreich.) Die Sache geht an mir aus. *2. Die Trämer werden ihm zu kurz. (Oberösterreich.) Mittel oder Vermögen, irgendein Unternehmen auszuführen, reichen nicht aus. *3. Er hat das Tram verloren. –… …
45tram — 1. n. 1 Brit. an electrically powered passenger vehicle running on rails laid in a public road. 2 a four wheeled vehicle used in coal mines. Phrases and idioms: tram road hist. a road with wooden, stone, or metal wheel tracks. Etymology: MLG &… …
46tram — I. noun Etymology: English dialect, shaft of a wheelbarrow, probably from Low German traam, literally, beam Date: circa 1517 1. any of various vehicles: as a. a boxlike wagon running on rails (as in a mine) b. chiefly British streetcar c. a… …
47tram — (= translocating chain associating membrane protein) Transmembrane glycoprotein (probably crosses 8 times) of endoplasmic reticulum (36 kD) apparently required for the translocation of nascent proteins into the cisternal space. A component of the …
48tram — noun /træm/ a) A passenger vehicle for public use that runs on tracks in the road. Trams are a kind of sledge on which coals are brought from the place where they are hewn to the shaft. A tram has four wheels but a sledge is without wheels. b) A… …
49tram — [16] Tram was borrowed from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch trame ‘balk of timber, 515 treachery beam’, a word of unknown origin. It was originally used in English for the ‘shafts’ of a cart, and then for the cart itself. The track on which… …
50tram — also tram.car noun (C) especially BrE an electric vehicle for carrying passengers, which moves along the streets on metal tracks; streetcar AmE …
