trolleyとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Early 19th century (1823) meaning "cart", of dialectal origin (Suffolk), probably from troll (“to trundle, roll”) +‎ -ey (diminutive ending).

発音

• 韻: -ɒli

名詞

trolley (複数形 trollies または trolleys)

Trolley (sense 2)

Trolley (sense 6)

1. A trolley pole; a single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line, normally for a tram/streetcar or a trolleybus.
2. (US) A streetcar or light train.
   • 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 107:

     Gremlinesque behaviour might not be very obvious to an America, who would accept as perfectly natural the quaintly pixilated sayings and doings that are happening in subways, in trolleys, on buses, in bars at all times of the day and night.

   Synonyms: (英国用法) tram, trolley car

3. (US, colloquial) A light rail, tramway, trolleybus or streetcar system.
4. A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.

   Synonyms: crane trolley, traveling trolley

5. A truck which travels along the fixed conductors in an electric railway, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.
6. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain) A cart or shopping cart; a shopping trolley.
7. (Britain) A hand truck.
8. (Britain) A soapbox car.
9. (Britain) A gurney.
10. (Philippines) A handcar

下位語

• (streetcar): interurban

派生語

派生した語

• → Catalan: tròlei
• → French: trolley
  • → Romanian: troleu
• → German: Trolley
• → Welsh: troli