English > wheeled vehicle: 1 sense > noun 1, artifact| Meaning | A vehicle that moves on wheels and usually has a container for transporting things or people. |
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| Example | "the oldest known wheeled vehicles were found in Sumer and Syria and date from around 3500 BC" |
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| Parts | axle | A shaft on which a wheel rotates |
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| brake | A restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle |
| splasher | A protective covering over or beside a wheel to protect the upper part of a vehicle from splashes of mud |
| wheel | A simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines) |
| Narrower | baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, perambulator, pram, stroller, go-cart, pushchair, pusher | A small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around |
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| bicycle, bike, wheel, cycle | A wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals |
| boneshaker | Any wheeled vehicle that is dilapidated and uncomfortable |
| car, railcar, railway car, railroad car | A wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad |
| handcart, pushcart, cart, go-cart | wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person |
| horse-drawn vehicle | A wheeled vehicle drawn by one or more horses |
| motor scooter, scooter | A wheeled vehicle with small wheels and a low-powered gasoline engine geared to the rear wheel |
| rolling stock | collection of wheeled vehicles owned by a railroad or motor carrier |
| scooter | child's two-wheeled vehicle operated by foot |
| self-propelled vehicle | A wheeled vehicle that carries in itself a means of propulsion |
| skateboard | A board with wheels that is ridden in a standing or crouching position and propelled by foot |
| trailer, house trailer | A wheeled vehicle that can be pulled by a car or truck and is equipped for occupancy |
| tricycle, trike, velocipede | A vehicle with three wheels that is moved by foot pedals |
| unicycle, monocycle | A vehicle with a single wheel that is driven by pedals |
| wagon, waggon | Any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by an animal or a tractor |
| wagon, coaster wagon | A child's four-wheeled toy / toy cart sometimes used for coasting |
| welcome wagon | A wheeled vehicle carrying information and gifts from local merchants for new residents in an area |
| Broader | container | Any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another) |
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| vehicle | A conveyance that transports people or objects |
| Spanish | vehículo de ruedas |
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| Catalan | vehicle de rodes |
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