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)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain) A cart or shopping cart; a shopping trolley.
2. (Britain) A hand truck.
3. (Britain) A soapbox car.
4. (Britain) A gurney.
5. A trolley pole; a single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line, normally for a tram/streetcar or a trolleybus.
6. (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

7. (US, colloquial) A light rail, tramway, trolleybus or streetcar system.
8. A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.
9. A truck which travels along the fixed conductors in an electric railway, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.

派生語

派生した語

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

動詞

trolley (三人称単数 現在形 trolleys, 現在分詞 trolleying, 過去形および過去分詞形 trolleyed または trollied)

1. To bring to by trolley.
2. To use a trolley vehicle to go from one place to another.
3. To travel by trolley (streetcar, trolleybus または light train).