(n.) A small vehicle moved on wheels; usually, one having but two wheels and drawn by one horse; a cart.
(n.) A vehicle adapted to the rails of a railroad.
(n.) A chariot of war or of triumph; a vehicle of splendor, dignity, or solemnity.
(n.) The stars also called Charles's Wain, the Great Bear, or the Dipper.
(n.) The cage of a lift or elevator.
(n.) The basket, box, or cage suspended from a balloon to contain passengers, ballast, etc.
(n.) A floating perforated box for living fish.
Example Sentences:
(1) In January, Paris taxi drivers attacked an Uber car transporting two passengers from Charles de Gaulle airport.
(2) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
(3) While the majority of EU member states, including the UK, do not have a direct interest in the CAR, or in taking action, the alternative is unthinkable.
(4) "It has done so much to educate people about low emissions cars.
(5) In later years, the church built a business empire that included the Washington Times newspaper, the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, Bridgeport University in Connecticut, as well as a hotel and a car plant in North Korea.
(6) He was burnt alive along with three customers as flames from the car set his carpet shop ablaze.
(7) Car manufacturers, for example, are not allowed to insist that buyers only get their car serviced by them.
(8) After all, you can only drive one car at a time or go on one holiday at a time.
(9) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(10) At least 12 people were killed and dozens injured by a car bomb at a funeral in Jaramana at the end of August.
(11) Slager, 33, was a patrolman first class for the North Charleston police department when he fatally shot Scott, 50, following a struggle that led from a traffic stop when the officer noticed that one of Scott’s car tail lights was broken.
(12) There are men who have been here for 15, 20 years or more who have never even sat in the cars because no one on the floor can afford to buy one.
(13) She has more than made up for it since, building opera houses in China, art museums in America and car factories in Germany, all bearing her unmistakable influence in every detail.
(14) "I was in the car with Matthew and he held out his phone and said: 'We need to talk about this' with a very serious face, and my immediate thought was somebody had found where I lived and had made a direct threat.
(15) "[Zimmerman] shouldn't have gotten out of that car.
(16) Joe Gregory, parked outside the arena while waiting to pick up his girlfriend and her sister from the concert, captured its impact on his car’s dashcam.
(17) Harry was 12 years old when Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car crash but said it was not until his late 20s, after two years of “total chaos”, that he processed the grief.
(18) He wound up repossessing the cars of workers who fled town after the bust.
(19) She began on Friday by urging Republican women at a convention to “look at this face”, meaning her own, condemned Trump’s remarks as “unpresidential”, and then the Super Pac campaigning group, Carly For America, used Fiorina’s words as a voiceover for a video ad posted on YouTube on Monday showcasing dozens of women’s faces as the “faces of leadership”.
(20) Morel was arrested after his car was matched with one caught on camera fleeing the scene, and was involved in a hit-and-run with a cyclist 10 minutes after the shooting .
Clio
Definition:
(n.) The Muse who presided over history.
Example Sentences:
(1) None of them is British, though there is great anticipation about The Selfish Giant, Clio Barnard's second feature, which premieres in the Directors' Fortnight .
(2) This year's London film festival has showcased such remarkable and diverse films as Richard Ayoade's The Double , Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin , David Mackenzie's Starred Up , Clio Barnard's The Selfish Giant and the festival opener, Paul Greengrass's Captain Phillips .
(3) But she wrote that "good food and good company" – catching up with Michelle Obama and Laureen Harper of Canada – meant she was running late for tea at the presidential Quirinale Palace with Clio Napolitano, wife of the Italian president.
(4) I go back often to Clio Barnard’s The Arbor (2010).
(5) On Wednesday, Google won the advertiser of the year trophy at the 54th annual Clio Awards – the Oscars for advertising professionals.
(6) It has since emerged that a call was made to police later on the morning of the crash reporting that the couple’s blue Renault Clio had left the road on the M9 southbound near junction nine at Bannockburn.
(7) Today, faced with one of the greatest insults to their national pride of recent times, not one of them is building a barricade or setting fire to an overturned Renault Clio.
(8) In the early hours of 5 July, a Renault Clio crashed off the M9 motorway south of Stirling.
(9) "True," says Clio Barnard , the director, peering into the hole.
(10) Clio Barnard , acclaimed as one today's most exciting British film-makers, notes that her most recent film, The Selfish Giant, with three male protagonists, fails the test.
(11) The YouTube ad for the Renault Clio featured young people taking the car for a test drive in London, who find themselves transported to Paris scene when they push a button on the dashboard labelled "Va Va Voom".
(12) In the days before the attacks, he was spotted on CCTV footage at a service station in northern France buying soft drinks in the company of Abdeslam and at the wheel of the rented black Clio that was later used in the attacks.
(13) Clio Barnard's film The Selfish Giant has already been described as "hauntingly perfect" and "jaggedly moving" by critics as it premieres in the Director's Fortnight section of the film festival, with the director herself hailed as a significant new voice in British cinema.
(14) I'd decided not to tell any of the kids that I was pregnant during the first trimester in case it didn't work out, but I was having brunch one Sunday with Clio – my 21-year-old niece – when she went bright red and, shaping an imaginary bump around her own pancake-flat stomach, blurted out: "Naomi, I know… about the baby!"
(15) Photograph: Calderdale MBC Museums The three previous recipients of the Wellcome fellowship were the film-makers Clio Barnard, Jonathan Glazer and Carol Morley.
(16) Clio Barnard – a film-maker and contemporary of Dunbar, who grew up on the outskirts of Bradford – was intrigued by those words, and became curious to find out what had happened to Dunbar's three children in the 20 years since their mother's death.
(17) I felt a little churlish for not having told her sooner and registered in that moment that Clio has matured into an honorary sister.
(18) So to have her here, all these years later, is simply incredible.” Taking her cue from Varda’s recent speech at the European film awards, where she criticised the lack of female directors being celebrated, Smith also made a conscious effort to give British women directors such as Joanna Hogg, Clio Barnard and Carol Morley a platform, with all three speaking and screening their films as part of the festival programme.
(19) The actor told a Sunday Times interviewer that because of the age difference between himself and Jenna Coleman, 28, who plays the Time Lord's companion Clara Oswald, he had told producers he wanted no flirting or "Papa-Nicole moments", a reference to the Renault Clio TV ad campaign of the 1990s featuring a father and daughter.
(20) From The Encyclopedia of World War II, edited by Spencer C. Tucker, 2004 ABC-CLIO, LLC.