cart vs trolley

cart

noun
  • A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart. 

  • A cartridge for a computer or video game system. 

  • A shopping cart. 

  • A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, more often used for transporting goods than passengers. 

  • A tape cartridge used for pre-recorded material such as jingles and advertisements. 

verb
  • To carry goods. 

  • To carry or convey in a cart. 

  • To remove, especially involuntarily or for disposal. 

trolley

noun
  • A handcar. 

  • A streetcar or light train. 

  • A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes. 

  • A soapbox car. 

  • A trolley pole; a single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line, normally for a tram/streetcar or a trolleybus. 

  • A truck which travels along the fixed conductors in an electric railway, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car. 

  • A light rail, tramway, trolleybus or streetcar system. 

  • A gurney, a stretcher with wheeled legs. 

  • A hand truck. 

  • A cart or shopping cart; a shopping trolley. 

verb
  • To bring to by trolley. 

  • To travel by trolley (streetcar, trolleybus or light train). 

  • To use a trolley vehicle to go from one place to another. 

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