different between funicular vs trolley

English

Etymology

From Latin f?niculus (“cord”), diminutive from f?nis (“cord”) + -culus.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?kj?l?(?)

Adjective

funicular (comparative more funicular, superlative most funicular)

1. Of, pertaining to, resembling, or powered by a rope or cable
2. (medicine) Of or pertaining to the umbilical cord.
3. (botany) Having a fleshy covering of the seed formed from the funiculus, the attachment point of the seed.

Derived terms

• funicular railway

Translations

Noun

funicular (plural funiculars)

1. A particular type of rail transit system which ascends a steep urban or mountain incline, having usually two cars sharing a single track, with the cars linked by a cable and an arrangement of pulleys such that the descending car assists in the hoisting of the ascending car, i.e. the two cars serve as counterweights for each other.

Synonyms

• funicular railway

Translations

Catalan

Noun

funicular m (plural funiculars)

1. cable car, funicular

Further reading

• “funicular” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “funicular” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “funicular” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “funicular” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Portuguese

Adjective

funicular m or f (plural funiculares, comparable)

1. funicular (powered by a rope or cable)

Noun

funicular m (plural funiculares)

1. funicular (rail transit system which ascends an incline)

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin f?niculus (“cord”), diminutive of f?nis (“cord”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fu.ni.ku?la?]

Noun

funicular n

1. rope railway

Spanish

Noun

funicular m (plural funiculares)

1. funicular, cable car

English

Alternative forms

• trolly

Etymology

Early 19th century: of dialect origin, perhaps from troll.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?li

Noun

trolley (plural trollies or trolleys)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain) A cart or shopping cart; a shopping trolley.
2. (Britain) A hand truck.
3. (Britain) A soapbox car.
4. (Britain) A gurney.
5. A single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line usually for a tram or streetcar. Usually called a trolley pole.
6. (US) A streetcar or a system of streetcars.
7. (US, colloquial) A light rail system or a train on such a system.
8. A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.
9. A truck which travels along the fixed conductors in an electric railway, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.

Derived terms

Translations

Descendants

• ? Catalan: tròlei
• ? French: trolley
  • ? Romanian: troleu
• ? Welsh: troli

Verb

trolley (third-person singular simple present trolleys, present participle trolleying, simple past and past participle trolleyed or trollied)

1. To bring to by trolley.
2. To use a trolley vehicle to go from one place to another.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English trolley.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??.l?/

Noun

trolley m (plural trolleys)

1. trolley
2. trolleybus

Descendants

• ? Romanian: troleu

Spanish

Noun

trolley m (plural trolleys or trolley)

1. (anglicism) Alternative spelling of trole