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car·riage (kar′ij; for 2, usually kar′ē ij′)

noun

  1. the act of carrying; transportation
  2. the cost of carrying; transportation charge
  3. Archaic
    1. management or handling
    2. conduct; behavior
  4. manner of carrying the head and body; posture; bearing
    1. a four-wheeled passenger vehicle, usually horse-drawn and often private
    2. baby carriage
  6. Brit. a railroad passenger car
  7. a wheeled frame or support for something heavy a gun carriage
  8. a moving part (of a machine) for supporting and shifting something the carriage of a typewriter

Etymology: ME cariage, baggage, transport < Anglo-Fr, cart, carriage < carier, carry

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carriage Synonyms

carriage

n.

  1. The manner of carrying the body

    bearing, posture, walk, mien, pace, step, attitude, aspect, presence, look, comportment, cast, gait, stance, pose, port, deportment, demeanor, poise, air; see also behavior 1, position 5.

  2. A horse-drawn passenger vehicle

    buggy, surrey, coach, coach-and-four, buckboard, cart, conveyance, dog-cart, two-wheeler, dearborn, van, trap, gig, sulky, hansom, runabout, rockaway, tilbury, tumbrel, coupe, four-wheeler, stagecoach, chariot, chaise, shay, brougham, cab, equipage, victoria, landau, hack, hackney coach, phaeton, calash, calèche, cabriolet, droshky, troika, barouche, curricle; see also vehicle 1, wagon. See syn. study at bearing.


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carriage Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • passenger: The aircraft are not however available for the carriage of passengers.

Converse of object

  • refuse: Passengers without a valid passport will be refused carriage on international flights.

Adjective modifier

  • horseless: In 1865 the very first gasoline driven " horseless carriage " appeared.

Modifies a noun

  • siding: To the left, new carriage sidings are being created.

Noun used with modifier

  • hackney: Taxis There are two sorts of taxi - hackney carriages - often London type cabs, or vehicles with roof signs.
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carriage quotes

   I sent a carriage to bring you back But it went empty, and empty it returned.

-Child,Julia McWilliams

Because I could not stop for Deathö He kindly stopped for meö The carriage held but just Ourselvesö And Immortality.

-Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth

The thing depicted is less stationary, even the object in itself is less discernible than it used to be. A landscape broken into and traversed in a car or an express train losesindescriptivevaluebut gainsinsynthetic value; the window of the railroad carriage or the windshield of the car, combined withthespeed at whichyou aretraveling, have changed the familiar look of things. Modern man registers one hundred times more impressions than did an eighteenth century artist.

-Le¤  ger, Fernand

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