different between automobile vs exhaustless

English

Etymology

From French automobile, from Ancient Greek ????? (autós, “self”) + French mobile (“moving”), from Latin m?bilis (“movable”).

Pronunciation

• (noun, verb)
  • (UK, General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /???.t?.m??bi?l/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /??.t?.mo??bil/
  • Hyphenation: au?to?mo?bile
• (adjective)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /???t???m??ba?l/

Noun

automobile (plural automobiles)

1. (US, Canada) A type of vehicle designed to move on the ground under its own stored power and intended to carry a driver, a small number of additional passengers, and a very limited amount of other load. A car or motorcar.

Usage notes

• The word automobile usually implies a car with seating for perhaps four or five passengers.
• A vehicle with more than six or seven seats is usually described as a limousine, minivan, van, SUV, bus, etc.

Synonyms

• (passenger vehicle): auto, car, (British) motor, (British) motorcar
• See also Thesaurus:automobile

Coordinate terms

• truck, van, bus, SUV, minivan, station wagon, sedan, coupe, convertible, sports car, racecar; wagon, cart, trailer, tractor; airplane, boat, ship

Related terms

• automatic
• automotive

Descendants

• ? Alabama: mobìlika
• ? Hawaiian: ?okomopila

Translations

Verb

automobile (third-person singular simple present automobiles, present participle automobiling, simple past and past participle automobiled)

1. (intransitive, dated) To travel by automobile.

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Adjective

automobile (not comparable)

1. Self-moving; self-propelled.
   • 1919, Nikola Tesla, My Inventions

     As early as 1898 I proposed to representatives of a large manufacturing concern the construction and public exhibition of an automobile carriage which, left to itself, would perform a great variety of operations involving something akin to judgment.

   Synonym: autokinetic

Translations

French

Etymology

auto- +? mobile, as the vehicle is powered by an engine rather than pulled by horses.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.t?.m?.bil/
• Homophone: automobiles
• Hyphenation: au?to?mo?bile

Adjective

automobile (plural automobiles)

1. automotive

Noun

automobile f (plural automobiles)

1. automobile

Synonyms

• (informal) auto
• (France, informal) bagnole
• (France, informal) caisse
• (Quebec, Louisiana) char
• (France, informal) tire
• voiture

Derived terms

• automobilisable
• automobilisme
• automobiliste
• canot automobile

Descendants

• ? Dutch: automobiel
• ? English: automobile
• ? German: Automobil
• ? Russian: ??????????? (avtomobíl?)
  • ? Armenian: ????????? (avtomobil)
  • ? Azerbaijani: avtomobil
  • ? Georgian: ?????????? (av?omobili)
  • ? Kazakh: ?????????? (avtomobïl?)
  • ? Uyghur: ??????????? (aptomobil)
  • ? Uzbek: avtomobil

Further reading

• “automobile” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

auto- +? mobile

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aw.to?m?.bi.le/
• Hyphenation: au?to?mò?bi?le
• Rhymes: -?bile

Noun

automobile f (plural automobili)

1. automobile

   Synonyms: auto, macchina, vettura

English

Etymology

exhaust +? -less

Adjective

exhaustless (comparative more exhaustless, superlative most exhaustless)

1. Unable to be exhausted; having an endless supply; inexhaustible.
2. (of an automobile or similar machine) Not producing exhaust; nonpolluting.
   • 1969, Machine Design, volume 41, page 60

     These obstacles preclude near-future solutions for exhaustless vehicles, or those having an exhaust with greatly reduced toxicity.

   • 1971, John R. Wish, Marketing and social issues: an action reader, John Wiley & Sons

     We need an exhaustless automobile, a noiseless and versatile airplane. We need new methods of reducing and coping with wastes—radioactive, sewage, gaseous, and liquid.

   • 1973, Eckhard Schulze-Fielitz, Stadtsysteme (?ISBN)

     The car is at the same time the greatest producer of noise and the greatest polluter, and thus responsible for the rapidly accelerating debasement of the human environment. The long overdue noiseless and exhaustless automobile would ...

   • 1979, Cars and Parts, volume 22, page 13

     After he had finished he drove it over to Newton and started parading back and forth in the exhaustless car in front of the Stanley plant. Not a single whisp of steam could be seen, exhausting out any exhaust pipe. In fact he had no exhaust pipe ...

   • 2014, Matthew Johnson, Irregular Verbs, ChiZine (?ISBN)

     Trying to figure out the technology behind its operation—he had seen exhaustless vehicles in another Outline, apparently run on broadcast power ...

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