different between bicycle vs cars

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French bicycle (modern bicyclette), from bi- (“bi-; two”) +? cycle (“cycle”). First attested in English in 1868, and in French in 1847.

(promiscuous woman): From double meaning of ride ("to transport oneself upon" vs. "to mount someone to have sex with them"). A communal bicycle would have many riders.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba?s?kl?/
• Hyphenation: bi?cy?cle

Noun

bicycle (plural bicycles)

1. A vehicle that has two wheels, one behind the other, a steering handle, and a saddle seat or seats and is usually propelled by the action of a rider’s feet upon pedals.

   Synonyms: (clipping) bike, pushbike, (historical) velocipede; see also Thesaurus:bicycle

   Hypernym: cycle
2. A traveling block used on a cable in skidding logs.
3. The best possible hand in lowball.
4. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A motorbike.
5. (vulgar slang, usually in compounds specifying a context) a slut; a promiscuous woman

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Burmese: ????????? (bhuingca.kai)
• ? Papiamentu: baiskel
• Sranan Tongo: baisigri
• ? Urdu: ????????

Translations

Verb

bicycle (third-person singular simple present bicycles, present participle bicycling, simple past and past participle bicycled)

1. (intransitive) To travel or exercise using a bicycle.

Translations

French

Alternative forms

• bécik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi.sikl/

Noun

bicycle m (plural bicycles)

1. bicycle

   Synonym: bicyclette

Derived terms

• bicyclette

Descendants

• ? English: bicycle

Further reading

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

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??z/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??z/
• Rhymes: -??(?)z

Noun

cars

1. plural of car

Anagrams

• CRAs, RACs, arcs, ascr., csar, sacr-, sarc-, scar

Catalan

Adjective

cars

1. masculine plural of car

Noun

cars

1. plural of car

French

Noun

cars m

1. plural of car

Latvian

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ???? (car?, “tsar”), itself a borrowing, ultimately from Latin Caesar; cf. the parallel form ?eizars (“emperor”).

Pronunciation

Noun

cars m (1st declension, feminine form: cariene)

1. tsar (male monarch of the Russian empire (especially before 1721); his title)

Usage notes

Officially, the title of cars in Russia was replaced with imperators in 1721, though the word cars, in Latvian as in other languages, continued to be popularly used to refer to the rulers of the Russian Empire.

Declension

Synonyms

• imperators
• karalis
• ?eizars
• (dated term) ??ni?š

Derived terms

• carisks
• cariste
• carisms