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 Definitions of carriage  [ˈkær ɪdʒ; for]  

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Definition of 'carriage' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) carriage
a wheeled vehicle for conveying persons, as one drawn by horses and designed for comfort and elegance.

2.  carriage
Brit. a railway passenger coach.

3.  carriage
a wheeled support, as for a cannon.

4.  carriage
a movable part, as of a machine, designed for carrying something:
a wide carriage on a dot-matrix printer.

5.  carriage
bearing of the head and body; posture.

6.  carriage
the act of transporting; conveyance.

7.  carriage
the price or cost of transportation.

8.  carriage
Archaic. management; administration.

Etymology:  (1150–1200; ME cariage < AF, ONF =cari(er) to carry+-age -age)

Definition of 'carriage' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) passenger car, coach, carriage
a railcar where passengers ride

2. (noun) carriage, equipage, rig
a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses

3. (noun) carriage, bearing, posture
characteristic way of bearing one's body
"stood with good posture"

4. (noun) carriage
a machine part that carries something else

5. (noun) baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, perambulator, pram, stroller, go-cart, pushchair, pusher
a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around


Definition of 'carriage' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) carriage
a horse-pulled road vehicle with four wheels
***a horse and carriage

2.  carriage
a car on a train
***passengers in the second carriage


Definition of 'carriage' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) carriage
that which is carried; burden; baggage

2. (noun) carriage
the act of carrying, transporting, or conveying

3. (noun) carriage
the price or expense of carrying

4. (noun) carriage
that which carries of conveys,

5. (noun) carriage
a wheeled vehicle for persons, esp. one designed for elegance and comfort

6. (noun) carriage
a wheeled vehicle carrying a fixed burden, as a gun carriage

7. (noun) carriage
a part of a machine which moves and carries of supports some other moving object or part

8. (noun) carriage
a frame or cage in which something is carried or supported; as, a bell carriage

9. (noun) carriage
the manner of carrying one's self; behavior; bearing; deportment; personal manners

10. (noun) carriage
the act or manner of conducting measures or projects; management


Translation of 'carriage' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: the act or cost of conveying and delivering goods
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Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: vervoerkoste Arabic flag Arabic: نَقْلٌ أو أُجْرَةُ نَقْلٍ Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: превоз
Brazilian flag Brazilian: transporte Czech flag Czech: doprava, dopravné German flag German: die Beförderung, der Tran
Danish flag Danish: forsendelse Greek flag Greek: μεταφορά Spanish flag Spanish: transporte
Estonian flag Estonian: vedu, veoraha Farsi flag Farsi: حمل و نقل؛ کرایۀ حمل و نق Finnish flag Finnish: rahti
French flag French: transport Hebrew flag Hebrew: הוֹבָלָה Hindi flag Hindi: गाड़ी
Croatian flag Croatian: vožnja Hungarian flag Hungarian: szállítás, fuvarozás Indonesian flag Indonesian: pengiriman
Icelandic flag Icelandic: flutningskostnaður Italian flag Italian: trasporto Japanese flag Japanese: 運送 (費)
Korean flag Korean: 운임 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: vežimas, gabenimas, vežim Latvian flag Latvian: transports; pārsūtīšana;
Malay flag Malay: penghantaran Dutch flag Dutch: vervoer Norwegian flag Norwegian: frakt, transport, forsend
Polish flag Polish: przewóz, transport Persian flag Persian: حمل و نقل؛ کرایۀ حمل و نق Pashto flag Pashto: دمال وړنه: بګۍ، ګاډۍ
Portuguese flag Portuguese: transporte Romanian flag Romanian: transport Russian flag Russian: доставка
Slovak flag Slovak: doprava Slovenian flag Slovenian: prevoz Serbian flag Serbian: prevoz
Swedish flag Swedish: frakt[kostnad] Thai flag Thai: การขนส่ง Turkish flag Turkish: taşıma ücreti
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 運送,運費 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: вартість перевезення Urdu flag Urdu: سامان کی نقل وحمل کرنا
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: cước phí Chinese flag Chinese: 运输,运费

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