cart
part of speech
noun (a cart, carts); verb (cart, carts, carted, carting)
meaning for a pupil
1) A cart is a vehicle with two or four wheels, pulled by a horse or other animal or pushed by hand, used to carry things. tree →
2) In the USA and Canada, a cart is a shopping trolley in a supermarket. tree →
3) An online cart is the list of things you plan to buy on a website. tree →
4) To cart is to carry something heavy or awkward, often a long way. tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: In Samuel, the cattle drawing the cart carried the Ark back from the Philistines. Tradition reads the story as proof that the Ark moved by God's power, and later David was taught that it should be carried on shoulders by Levites. In the primary lessons: In history, farmers used horse-drawn carts to carry crops before cars and lorries. In science, carts and trolleys are used in experiments about forces and friction. In online safety lessons, children learn never to buy things in an online cart without an adult. Phrases: «horse and cart», «shopping cart», «put the cart before the horse» (do things in the wrong order).
examples
- Behold, I will make it creak under you, as a cart creaketh that is full of sheaves. (Prophets AMO.2.13, JPS 1917) tree →
- Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope, (Prophets ISA.5.18, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home. (Prophets 1SA.6.10, JPS 1917) tree →
- The farmer loaded hay onto the cart. tree →
- The horse pulled the cart up the lane. tree →
- Mum pushed the shopping cart around the store. tree →
- I put the game in my online cart but asked Dad first. tree →
- We carted our bags up to the top floor. tree →
- In the experiment, we rolled a cart down a ramp. tree →
- Don't put the cart before the horse. tree →
- A golf cart drove across the grass. tree →
- There were men with carts full of roasted meats. tree →
note
Countable: a cart, carts. American «shopping cart» = British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand «shopping trolley». Do not confuse with «kart» (a small racing car, go-kart) or «card».
In the corpora
- Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope,
- Behold, I will make it creak under you, as a cart creaketh that is full of sheaves.
- For its size a Shetland pony is one of the strongest horses and once pulled carts in coal mines.
- The frightened old horse rears and backs, and drags the cart into the deep ditch: crash!
- Toad: «What carts I shall fling carelessly into the ditch in the wake of my magnificent onset!
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «cart» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.