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carriage Definition

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

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.

carriage Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • passenger: The aircraft are not however available for the carriage of passengers.
  • freight: Encourage the carriage of freight by rail and sea.

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.
  • invalid: You may join the Armed Forces with your parent's consent You can hold a license to drive an invalid carriage or moped.
  • four-wheeled: All proceeds will go toward the purchase of a much needed specialized four-wheeled carriage that will enable us to take wheelchairs more easily.
  • first-class: A first-class saloon carriage was attached to the train for Her Royal Highness and her lady-in-waiting.
  • second-class: We went to the railroad depot, toward evening, and Ferguson got tickets for a second-class carriage.
  • onward: You may be disembarked and refused onward carriage at any point, and may be prosecuted for offenses committed on board the aircraft.

Modifies a noun

  • siding: To the left, new carriage sidings are being created.
  • driving: Using Fell ponies for competitive carriage driving was, he says, unheard of at the time.
  • No.: Good progress has been made with very extensive repairs to the body of former Glyn Valley carriage No. 14.
  • driveway: Boasting gas central heating, a carriage driveway, off street parking and a garage via own drive.
  • return: By hitting carriage return twice at the points where you want to insert a blank line.

Noun used with modifier

  • hackney: Taxis There are two sorts of taxi - hackney carriages - often London type cabs, or vehicles with roof signs.
  • horse-drawn: The unit was a horse-drawn carriage carrying delivery hose.
  • garter: Book 83 Rhuddlan Castle The latest garter carriage book from Busy Bee.
  • Pullman: Also ' The Pullman ' the pub near the level crossing in Grays which depicts the renowned Pullman railroad carriages painted umber and cream.
  • \r: Whether it works or not is system dependent and should not be relied upon. \r carriage return character.
  • railroad: The main question being discussed in the railroad carriage around me is how long he can survive.
carriage Quotes

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

—Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth

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

—Child,Julia McWilliams

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