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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024tram1 /træm/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Transport, British Terms[Brit.]a streetcar.
- Transport, Mining, Transporta truck or car on rails, esp. one that travels on an overhead cable, as to convey skiers at a ski lodge.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024tram1 (tram),USA pronunciation n., v., trammed, tram•ming.
n. - [Brit.]a streetcar.
- a tramway; tramroad.
Also called tram•car(tram′kär′)USA pronunciation. a truck or car on rails for carrying loads in a mine.- the vehicle or cage of an overhead carrier.
v.t., v.i. - to convey or travel by tram.
- Middle Dutch trame beam
- 1490–1500 for an earlier sense; 1820–30 for def. 2.; origin, originally shafts of a barrow or cart, rails for carts (in mines); perh.
n. - trammel (def. 3).
v.t. - [Mach.]to adjust (something) correctly.
- short for trammel 1880–85
- silk that has been slightly or loosely twisted, used weftwise in weaving silk fabrics. Cf. organzine.
- Latin trāma warp
- Old French traime weft, cunning contrivance
- 1300–50 for an earlier sense; 1670–80 for current sense; Middle English tram(m)e machination, contrivance
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: tram /træm/ n - Also called: tramcar an electrically driven public transport vehicle that runs on rails let into the surface of the road, power usually being taken from an overhead wire
US and Canadian names: streetcar, trolley car - a small vehicle on rails for carrying loads in a mine; tub
Etymology: 16th Century (in the sense: shaft of a cart): probably from Low German traam beam; compare Old Norse thrömr, Middle Dutch traem beam, tooth of a rakeˈtramless adj |