carとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Inherited from Middle English carre, borrowed from Anglo-Norman carre, from Old Northern French (compare Old French char), from Latin carra, neuter plural of carrum (“four-wheeled baggage wagon”), from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”). Doublet of horse.

別の表記

• carr (古風な用法)

名詞

car (複数形 cars)

1. A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation.

   Synonyms: auto, motorcar, vehicle, (米国用法) automobile, (Britain, 口語) motor, (廃れた用法) carriage; see also Thesaurus:automobile

   She drove her car to the mall.

   • 2005, Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, and Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), “Stay Fly”, in Most Known Unknown‎^[1], Sony BMG, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, かつ MJG):

     I'm a stunt; ride in the car with some bump in the trunk.

   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion‎^[2]:

     If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] .

2. (dated) A wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal; a chariot.
   • 1594 (first publication), Christopher Marlow[e], The Trovblesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edvvard the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     It shall suffice me to enioy your loue,
     Which whiles I haue, I thinke my selfe as great,
     As Caesar riding in the Romaine streete,
     With captiue kings at his triumphant Carre.

   • c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene viii]:

     He has deserved it [armour], were it carbuncled
     Like holy Phoebus’ car.

   1. (UK, Birmingham, obsolete) A four-wheeled cab, as opposed to a (two-wheeled) Hansom cab.
3. (rail transport, chiefly Canada, 米国用法) An unpowered unit in a railroad train.

   Synonyms: railcar, wagon, carriage

   The conductor coupled the cars to the locomotive.

4. (rail transport) an individual vehicle, powered or unpowered, in a multiple unit.

   The 11:10 to London was operated by a 4-car diesel multiple unit.

6. (rail transport) A passenger-carrying unit in a subway or elevated train, whether powered or not.

   From the frontmost car of the subway, he filmed the progress through the tunnel.

7. A rough unit of quantity approximating the amount which would fill a railroad car.

   Synonyms: carload, wagonload

   We ordered five hundred cars of gypsum.

   • 1907, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College System, Bulletin (volumes 93-117, page 5)

     This market reports only one or two cars per day, selling by the hundred weight, and at a price a little lower than that of Indian corn.

8. The moving, load-carrying component of an elevator or other cable-drawn transport mechanism.

   Fix the car of the express elevator - the door is sticking.

9. The passenger-carrying portion of certain amusement park rides, such as Ferris wheels.

   Synonym: carriage

   The most exciting part of riding a Ferris wheel is when your car goes over the top.

10. The part of an airship, such as a balloon or dirigible, which houses the passengers and control apparatus.

    Synonyms: gondola, (balloons only) basket

    • 1850, John Wise, A System of Aeronautics, page 152:

      Everything being apparently in readiness now, I stepped into the car of the balloon, […]

    • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

      "What about a car?" "The car will be my next care. I have already planned how it is to be made and attached. Meanwhile I will simply show you how capable my apparatus is of supporting the weight of each of us."

11. (sailing) A sliding fitting that runs along a track.
    • 1995, Ken Textor, The New Book of Sail Trim‎^[3], →ISBN, page 201:

      On boats 25 feet or more, it is best to mount a mast car and track on the front of the mast so you can adjust the height of the pole above the deck

12. (uncountable, US, slang) The aggregate of desirable characteristics of a car.

    Buy now! You can get more car for your money.

13. (US) A floating perforated box for living fish.
14. (US, prison slang) A clique or gang.
15. (Internet) Deliberate misspelling of cat.

下位語

派生語

関連する語

• carriage
• chariot

派生した語

• → French: car
• → Russian: кар (kar)
• ⇒ Sanskrit: कारयान (kārayāna)

参考

• bus
• truck
• van

語源 2

Etymology unclear, but probably from Proto-Germanic *karzijaną (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *gers- (“to bend, turn”). Compare cair (“to turn, go”), char (“to turn”), Dutch keren (“to turn”), German Kehre (“turn, bend”).

William Shakespeare had something of a fondness for verbalizing nouns, and sometimes even substantivizing verbs. However, anything other than a "turn" does not seem to make any sense within the broader context of the cited Sonnet.

名詞

car (複数形 cars)

1. (obsolete) A turn.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 7”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […]‎^[4], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

     But when from highmost pitch, with weary car,
     Like feeble age, he reeleth from the day, (after the sun reaches the zenith it, with a weary turn, begins to reel (“to roll”) (downwards))

語源 3

Acronym of contents of the address part of register number. Note that it was based on original hardware and has no meaning today.

名詞

car (複数形 cars)

1. (programming) The first part of a cons in Lisp. The first element of a list.

   Antonym: cdr

   Holonym: cons

   • 2000, Matt Kaufmann; Panagiotis Manolios; J Strother Moore, Computer-aided reasoning: an approach:

     The elements of a list are the successive cars along the "cdr chain." That is, the elements are the car, the car of the cdr, the car of the cdr of the cdr, etc.

派生語

• cadr
• caddr

Gallery

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  A hydrogen-powered car.

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  Freight cars.

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  A self-propelled passenger car.

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  Ferris wheel cars.

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  Car on a sailboat.

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  Car of a Zeppelin.

アナグラム

• ARC, CRA, RAC, RCA, acr-, arc, arc-, rac-