different between cartwheel vs cart

English

Etymology

cart +? wheel

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??t?wi?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k??t?wil/

Noun

cartwheel (plural cartwheels)

1. The literal wheel of a cart.
2. A gymnastic maneuver whereby the gymnast rotates to one side or the other while keeping arms and legs outstretched, spinning for one or more revolutions.
3. (Britain, historical, obsolete slang) A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.
   • 1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words

     Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.

4. (US, historical, obsolete slang) A silver dollar of the larger size produced before 1979.

Translations

Verb

cartwheel (third-person singular simple present cartwheels, present participle cartwheeling, simple past and past participle cartwheeled)

1. To perform the gymnastics feat of a cartwheel.
2. To flip end over end: normally said of a crashing vehicle or aircraft.

   The race car hit a bump and cartwheeled over the finish line.

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??t/
• (General American) enPR: kärt, IPA^(key): /k??t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Etymology 1

From Middle English cart, kart, from Old Norse kartr (“wagon; cart”), akin to Old English cræt (“a chariot; cart”), from Proto-Germanic *krattaz, *krattijô, *krad?, from Proto-Indo-European *gret- (“tracery; wattle; cradle; cage; basket”), from *ger- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with West Frisian kret (“wheelbarrow for hauling dung”), Dutch krat, kret (“crate; wheelbarrow for hauling dung”), German Krätze (“basket; pannier”).

Noun

cart (plural carts)

1. A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, more often used for transporting goods than passengers.
2. A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart.
3. (Internet) A shopping cart.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (k?to)
• ? Korean: ?? (kateu)

Translations

Verb

cart (third-person singular simple present carts, present participle carting, simple past and past participle carted)

1. (transitive) To carry or convey in a cart.
2. (transitive, informal) To carry goods.

3. (transitive) To remove, especially involuntarily or for disposal.
   • 2001, Donald Spoto, Marilyn Monroe: The Biography, chapter 2, 18:

     On August 4, 1927, Della was carted away to the Norwalk State Hospital, suffering from acute myocarditis, a general term for inflammation of the heart and surrounding tissues.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To expose in a cart by way of punishment.

Translations

References

Etymology 2

Clipping of cartridge.

Noun

cart (plural carts)

1. (radio, informal) A tape cartridge used for pre-recorded material such as jingles and advertisements.
2. (video games, informal) A cartridge for a video game system.

   My Final Fantasy cart on the NES is still alive and kicking.

Derived terms

• multicart

Anagrams

• -crat, C-rat, RACT, crat

Irish

Alternative forms

• scart

Etymology

From Middle Irish cartaid (“to expel, drive off”), from Proto-Celtic *kartati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k???t??/

Verb

cart (present analytic cartann, future analytic cartfaidh, verbal noun cartadh, past participle carta)

1. to clear away (dispose of, get rid of)
2. to scrape clean
3. to tan (turn animal hide into leather)
4. to scavenge (feed on carrion or refuse)
5. (Ulster) to clean, cleanse

Conjugation

Mutation

Further reading

• “cart” at the Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926 of the Royal Irish Academy.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “cartaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “cartaim” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 120.
• "cart" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.