carriage

«carriage» in Mova's school dictionary: one car of a train (UK); in the USA it is usually called… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (carriage, carriages)

meaning for a pupil

1) A carriage is one car of a train (UK); in the USA it is usually called a car. tree →

2) A carriage is a vehicle with wheels pulled by horses. tree →

3) A baby carriage is a pram or buggy for a baby. tree →

4) Carriage is also the cost of carrying goods. tree →

sense in the lessons

equal groups: passengers or seats in each carriage of a train; in history: people travelled in horse-drawn carriages; in stories: Cinderella's pumpkin turns into a carriage; in everyday life: the quiet carriage on a train

examples

• The train has 8 carriages. tree →
• Each carriage holds 60 people. tree →
• 2 carriages are empty. tree →
• How many seats in all the carriages? tree →
• We sat in the first carriage of the train. tree →
• The queen rode in a golden carriage pulled by four horses. tree →
• The pumpkin turned into a carriage. tree →
• Please be quiet in the quiet carriage. tree →
• The Fairy stopped her carriage and addressed them: tree →

note

Total = carriages × per carriage. Spelling trap: c-a-r-r-i-a-g-e (double r, then «iage»). In the USA a train «car», in the UK a «carriage».

In the corpora

• Move away from the doors into the carriage so people can get on and off.
• A train is a long chain of carriages or wagons rolling on two steel rails.
• A usual passenger carriage runs on 8 wheels: two sets of 4 wheels, one set near each end.
• A bicycle has 2 wheels, a tricycle 3, a car 4, and a usual train carriage 8.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «carriage» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.