What's the difference between buggy and roadster?

Buggy


Definition:

  • (a.) Infested or abounding with bugs.
  • (n.) A light one horse two-wheeled vehicle.
  • (n.) A light, four-wheeled vehicle, usually with one seat, and with or without a calash top.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Removing a sleeping child from a buggy may be inconvenient, but it is not likely to be as inconvenient for a parent as it would be for a wheelchair user to be prevented from boarding.
  • (2) He was sitting in his buggy in the hall, his face, hands and clothes smeared with chocolate.
  • (3) "When both the lifts weren't working they did say that if you were pregnant, had a health problem or a baby in a buggy you could use the main entrance," she said.
  • (4) Boutik Services (+33 6 0958 0988) in 1850 has cots, booster seats, changing tables, buggies and child skis for hire.
  • (5) The place was teeming with families and young children, and yet despite my best efforts to find one, I was pleased to note there didn't seem to be a Bugaboo buggy in sight.
  • (6) The plug-in architecture is a security nightmare, and a source of numerous breaches through which buggy or malicious code was able to reach into users’ computers and compromise them.
  • (7) Nor was it about whether parents in the wheelchair space with a child in a folding buggy should fold their buggies in order to make way for a wheelchair user: of course they should, if possible.
  • (8) We are supposed to have them by our early 30s at the latest – and not with some nobody we met on Tinder, but with a long-term partner who’ll push a buggy occasionally.
  • (9) Companies promise a trip like no other, with buggy tours lasting two days and one evening, 'long enough,' one brochure states, 'for nature enthusiasts to keep their excitement, but not too long to the point of monotony.'
  • (10) South of Newquay, Perranporth is great for activities from surfing and riding to powerkiting, landboarding and buggy riding.
  • (11) New parents also face a £9,152 bill during the first twelve months of their new baby's life, taking into account expenditure on equipment such as buggies, cots and prams etc.
  • (12) But local people say they had video evidence that it was not sabotage but a Shell contractor working in a buggy which struck the pipeline.
  • (13) But is it reasonable to give people in wheelchairs priority over people pushing buggies?
  • (14) As we leave her office, a half-naked child wanders into the corridor, and then the lift stops outside the in-house nursery for Jenny Willott, a Liberal Democrat whip, who is pushing two small children in a double buggy.
  • (15) There's lots of buggies in the world and it will have one, so don't worry about it.'"
  • (16) That's a logical falsehood, of course – akin to believing a challenge to the horse-and-buggy industry is a challenge to transportation itself – but it's a scary thought and therefore produces an extreme defensive response (government, do something!).
  • (17) She couldn't work the next buggy for love or money, so she wandered the streets looking for another similar model, found one, begged for guidance from the owners, which they kindly gave her, but by the time she got home she'd forgotten her instructions.
  • (18) Other photographs show the US troops boarding a blue and white-striped passenger plane and driving a yellow dune buggy.
  • (19) While better educated staff may be very welcome when it comes to playing imaginative games with children, or introducing them to the alphabet, there's no substitute for pairs of hands to do up little buttons, push buggies and give out cuddles.
  • (20) It’s about representing the people.” Suddenly we are almost bowled over by the man himself at the wheel of a golf buggy, heading for the nearby driving range where a few hundred locals on picnic rugs and folding chairs are waiting for a free concert by an Elvis impersonator.

Roadster


Definition:

  • (n.) A clumsy vessel that works its way from one anchorage to another by means of the tides.
  • (n.) A horse that is accustomed to traveling on the high road, or is suitable for use on ordinary roads.
  • (n.) A bicycle or tricycle adapted for common roads rather than for the racing track.
  • (n.) One who drives much; a coach driver.
  • (n.) A hunter who keeps to the roads instead of following the hounds across country.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tesla Model-S launch: an electric car to answer even Clarkson's objections Read more Elon Musk’s Tesla has shown that electric vehicles are viable for a business with its Roadster and then Model S , which recently gained a faster dual-motor version with an “insane mode” which reaches 60 miles per hour in under 3.2 seconds.
  • (2) A fourth Tesla, the Roadster, launched the Tesla motors range.
  • (3) The company has produced almost two million Minis at Cowley since 2001, and now wants to expand the Mini lineup to seven models, with a coupe version planned this year and a Roadster in 2012 – both to be made in Oxford.David Cameron, the prime minister, said: "The Mini plant in Oxford has been one of our great manufacturing success stories, they should be hugely proud of their achievements.
  • (4) This article was corrected on Friday 17 July 2015 to clarify that it was the Roadster, not the Model S, that was based on a Lotus.
  • (5) Apart from the Tesla Roadster, the only other model that will be on sale in time for the introduction of the grant is the Mitsubishi i-Miev , a four-seater car that will cost a hefty £25,000 before the grant.
  • (6) According to an order filed on Monday setting the conditions for release, Webb secured the bond with five Rolex watches plus a Cartier Roadster, Hublot, Breitling, Panerai, Royal Oak Offshore and Luminor Marina.
  • (7) The Roadster, Tesla’s first car, the Model S, and now the Model X, are being used to pave the way for Tesla’s Model 3, which is Musk’s vision of a mass market “The goal at Tesla is to produce a mass-market electric car, but we can only get there one step at a time by selling the Roadster and now the Model S to fund the mass market,” said Musk at the UK launch of the Model S .
  • (8) For just €299 (£248), the company pre-emptively bought the rights to the third high pressure front of the year and named it Cooper, in homage to its latest Mini Cooper Roadster.
  • (9) The Warwickshire-based sports car manufacturer, in which Ford will retain a £40m holding, will start producing a £91,000 V8 Vantage Roadster in April, a DBS - as driven by Daniel Craig in the latest Bond film, Casino Royale - from October and a four-seater Rapide in 2010.
  • (10) But the creators of AeroMobil’s Flying Roadster insist their innovation is more than just a boy’s toy dreamt up by science fiction fans.
  • (11) Until now, electric cars have been criticised for being too expensive (the California-based Tesla roadster costs around £90,000) or looking more like go-karts than real cars (think G-Wiz).
  • (12) However, the Wheego LiFe, its second vehicle, can reach 65mph and was the third electric car approved for use on US highways after the Tesla Roadster and the Nissan Leaf.
  • (13) All of the first generation of electric cars eligible for the grant, such as the Nissan Leaf, Mitsubishi i-MiEV and Telsa Roadster sports car , cost over £20,000.
  • (14) In spite of the car’s low centre of gravity, he said, the Flying Roadster could land on stretches of lawn or even farmland.
  • (15) BMW once sponsored a high-pressure cold front , naming it Cooper in order to promote its Mini Cooper Roadster.
  • (16) Australian first person in the world to order Tesla Model 3 electric car Read more It is the culmination of the Tesla chief executive Elon Musk’s dream since unveiling the company’s first car, an electric roadster, in 2006.
  • (17) My requirements were discussed, and I was shown a 1950 Ladies Rudge Roadster.
  • (18) Elon Musk has made it official: his electric car company, Tesla Motors, is planning to debut an unnamed new Roadster in four years, and it won’t be based on a Lotus like the last one.
  • (19) This includes the launch of the Lamborghini Reventon Roadster, whose 6.5-litre V12 engine will deliver a top speed of 205mph and a 0-60mph time of 3.4 seconds.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tesla Model S test drive in London Seven years after Tesla introduced the Roadster electric sports car – which it no longer makes – electric cars still make up less than 1% of US sales.

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