different between trolley vs stroller

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

English

Etymology

stroll +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??l?(?)

Noun

stroller (plural strollers)

1. (US) A seat or chair on wheels, pushed by somebody walking behind it, typically used for transporting babies and young children.
2. One who strolls.
3. A vagrant.
   • 1771, Tobias Smollett, Humphry Clinker, Penguin Classics, 1985, p.41:

     The mayor observed that it was great presumption in Wilson, who was a stroller, to proceed to such extremities with a gentleman of family and fortune; and threatened to commit him on the vagrant act.

4. Men's semiformal daytime dress comprising a grey or black single- or double-breasted coat, grey striped or checked formal trousers, a grey or silver necktie, and a grey, black or buff waistcoat.

Synonyms

• (UK) pushchair
• (UK) baby buggy

Translations

See also

• pram
• pusher

Anagrams

• trollers