Definition of ambulance in English:
ambulance
nounˈambjʊl(ə)nsˈæmbjələns
A vehicle equipped for taking sick or injured people to and from hospital, especially in emergencies.
he taken by ambulance to the district hospital
as modifier the ambulance service
Example sentencesExamples
- We assume all duties which are carried out by our ambulance service are emergencies.
- What possesses them to trash an ambulance outside a hospital in broad daylight?
- I received the phone call, jumped into a taxi and followed the ambulance to the hospital.
- They came within a matter of minutes and he went to get the twins to follow the ambulance to the hospital.
- An emergency room with no more beds will close to ambulances and divert them to another hospital.
- Otherwise if the ambulance service gets an emergency elsewhere they may not be able to go to it.
- Within three minutes of the call there was an ambulance vehicle at the scene.
- The authors concluded that unnecessary use of emergency ambulances would decline if alternatives were provided.
- Even in the ambulance and in hospital the medical teams were fighting all the way to bring him back.
- He was stretchered into an ambulance and taken to hospital where he will remain overnight.
- She was taken to hospital in an ambulance suffering a broken neck but later died.
- We observed ambulances heading to the hospital having to go very slowly through traffic.
- The patient in the ambulance and a paramedic who was in the back of it were taken to hospital in a second ambulance.
- The woman in the other vehicle had to be cut free from her vehicle and was flown to hospital in the air ambulance.
- Six to seven emergency vehicles and four ambulances are also provided.
- He was rushed to Southend Hospital by ambulance where he received emergency surgery.
- One option would be to improve the response time of ambulances to emergency calls.
- They had arrived at the hospital shortly after both ambulances did.
- Six ambulances removed the injured to hospital, while a number of people were treated at the scene for shock.
- An additional phase of the new development could incorporate other emergency services such as ambulances and coastguard.
verbˈambjʊl(ə)ns
with object and adverbial of direction Convey in an ambulance.
he was ambulanced to accident and emergency
Example sentencesExamples
- He called his wife and subsequently was ambulanced to the emergency room.
- They couldn't stop it, at the clinic, so they had to ambulance him to hospital emergency.
- Each day after the treatment they would ambulance him from the cancer center to Pocono Hospital across the street and then return him the next day.
- My husband called my doctor who had done my first surgery and I was ambulanced to the hospital.
- Patients seriously hurt in road accidents and heart attack victims would have to be ambulanced out of town.
- Jeff got him in the car, and eventually they had to ambulance him to a hospital for cleanup and stitches.
- He was ambulanced to hospital and found to have brain haemorrhage.
- They ambulanced him fast yesterday out of the nursing home with a serious infection, high fever and blood pressure into the hospital's intensive care unit.
Origin
Early 19th century: French, from hôpital ambulant 'mobile (horse-drawn) field hospital', from Latin ambulant- 'walking' (see ambulant).
First used in the Crimean War, an ambulance was originally a mobile temporary hospital—a field hospital—that followed an army from place to place. The term was later applied to a wagon or cart used for carrying wounded soldiers off the battlefield, which in turn led to its modern meaning. Ambulance comes from the French hôpital ambulant, literally ‘walking hospital’: the root is Latin ambulare, ‘to walk’, which gave us words such as alley (Late Middle English), amble (Middle English), and early 17th-century ambulate (a formal way of saying ‘walk’). Ambulance chaser is a wry nickname for a lawyer. The first example of the term, from 1897, tells us that ‘In New York City there is a style of lawyers known to the profession as “ambulance chasers”, because they are on hand wherever there is a railway wreck, or a street-car collision…with…their offers of professional services.’