different between carriage vs splasher

English

Etymology

From Middle English cariage, from Old Northern French cariage, from carier (“to carry”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kæ??d?/, /?k???d?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kæ??d?/
• (Mary–marry–merry distinction)
• (Mary–marry–merry merger)
• Rhymes: -æ??d?
• Hyphenation: car?riage

Noun

carriage (countable and uncountable, plural carriages)

1. The act of conveying; carrying.
2. Means of conveyance.
3. A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.

   The carriage ride was very romantic.

4. (Britain) A rail car, especially one designed for the conveyance of passengers.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:carriage.
5. (now rare) A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself, bearing, gait.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:

     His carriage was full comely and vpright, / His countenaunce demure and temperate [...].

   • 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, "Characters," [1]

     In spite of her erect carriage she could flop to her knees to pray as smart as any of us.

   • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 90:

     He chose to speak largely about Vietnam [...], and his wonderfully sonorous voice was as enthralling to me as his very striking carriage and appearance.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:carriage.
6. (archaic) One's behaviour, or way of conducting oneself towards others.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 407:

     He now assumed a carriage to me so very different from what he had lately worn, and so nearly resembling his behaviour the first week of our marriage, that […] he might, possibly, have rekindled my fondness for him.

   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I:

     Some people whisper but no doubt they lie, / For malice still imputes some private end, / That Inez had, ere Don Alfonso's marriage, / Forgot with him her very prudent carriage [...].

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:carriage.
7. The part of a typewriter supporting the paper.
8. (US, New England) A shopping cart.
9. (Britain) A stroller; a baby carriage.
10. The charge made for conveying (especially in the phrases carriage forward, when the charge is to be paid by the receiver, and carriage paid).

    Synonyms: freight, freightage, cartage, charge, rate

11. (archaic) That which is carried, baggage

    • And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.

    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:carriage.

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Translations

See also

• carriage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Appendix:Carriages

English

Etymology

splash +? -er

Noun

splasher (plural splashers)

1. Someone who splashes.
2. (dated) A guard to keep off splashes from anything; especially, one of the guards over the wheels of a carriage, locomotive, etc.

References

Anagrams

• Sharples, harpless, pre-slash