different between tram vs funicular

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t?am/
• (General American) enPR: tr?m, IPA^(key): /t?æm/
• Rhymes: -æm

Etymology 1

Possibly from Low German traam (“tram, shaft of a barrow”), from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch trame (“narrow shaft, beam”), said to be ultimately from a lost West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) word, probably from Proto-Germanic *drum (“splinter, fragment”), from Proto-Indo-European *térmn? (“peg, post, boundary”), cognate with Latin terminus.

Compare Middle Low German treme; West Flemish traam, trame.

The popular derivation from the surname of the English pioneer tramway builder Benjamin Outram (1764–1805) is false: the term pre-dated him.

Noun

tram (plural trams)

1. (Australia, Britain, rail transport) A passenger vehicle for public use that runs on tracks in the road (called a streetcar or trolley in North America).

   Synonyms: streetcar, trolley

2. A similar vehicle for carrying materials.
3. (US, rail transport) A people mover.
4. (US) An aerial cable car.
5. (US) A train with wheels that runs on a road; a trackless train.
6. (British, dated) A car on a horse railway or tramway (horse trams preceded electric trams).
7. (obsolete) The shaft of a cart.
8. (obsolete) One of the rails of a tramway.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ????? (?r?m)
• ? Urdu: ?????

Translations

See also

• cablecar
• light rail
• streetcar
• trolley car

Verb

tram (third-person singular simple present trams, present participle tramming, simple past and past participle trammed)

1. (intransitive) To operate, or conduct the business of, a tramway.
2. (intransitive) To travel by tram.
3. (transitive) To transport (material) by tram.
4. (US, transitive) To align a component in mechanical engineering or metalworking, particularly the head of a drill press.

Etymology 2

From Spanish trama, or French trame (“weft”). Doublet of trama.

Noun

tram (plural trams)

1. (weaving) A silk thread formed of two or more threads twisted together, used especially for the weft, or cross threads, of the best quality of velvets and silk goods.

References

Further reading

• tram on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• tram (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Mart., RATM, mart, matr-, tarm

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?t?am/

Etymology 1

From Latin trama.

Noun

tram m (plural trams)

1. segment (of road, etc.)

   Synonym: secció

Etymology 2

Noun

tram m (plural trams)

1. Clipping of tramvia.

Further reading

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

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English tram.

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /tr?m/
• (Belgium) IPA^(key): /tr?m/, /tr?m/
• Hyphenation: tram
• Rhymes: -?m, -?m

Noun

tram m (plural trams or trammen, diminutive trammetje n)

1. A tram, a streetcar, vehicle on rails for passenger transport in cities.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• ramt

French

Etymology

Shortened from tramway.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?am/

Noun

tram m (plural trams)

1. tram (UK), streetcar (US)

Derived terms

• tram ultraléger

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English tram.

Noun

tram m (invariable)

1. tram, streetcar, trolley

   Synonym: tranvai

Related terms

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English tram.

Noun

tram m (plural trams)

1. (Jersey) tram

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse þr?mr

Noun

tram m (definite singular trammen, indefinite plural trammer, definite plural trammene)

1. a doorstep, or stoop (US)

References

• “tram” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “tram” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse þr?mr. Doublet of trøm.

Noun

tram m (definite singular trammen, indefinite plural trammar, definite plural trammane)

1. a doorstep, or stoop (US); porch

References

• “tram” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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