cart

«cart» in Mova's school dictionary: a vehicle with two or four wheels, pulled by a horse or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

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

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

• 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

• 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!
• Horrid little carts—common carts—canary-coloured carts!»
• Clues like candles, horses and carts, or old-fashioned words can show a diary is from long ago.

Trees and pragmatics

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