What's the difference between car and down?

Car


Definition:

  • (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 .

Down


Definition:

  • (a.) Downcast; as, a down look.
  • (a.) Downright; absolute; positive; as, a down denial.
  • (a.) Downward; going down; sloping; as, a down stroke; a down grade; a down train on a railway.
  • (n.) Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool
  • (n.) The soft under feathers of birds. They have short stems with soft rachis and bards and long threadlike barbules, without hooklets.
  • (n.) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, as of the thistle.
  • (n.) The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
  • (n.) That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down
  • (v. t.) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
  • (prep.) A bank or rounded hillock of sand thrown up by the wind along or near the shore; a flattish-topped hill; -- usually in the plural.
  • (prep.) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep; -- usually in the plural.
  • (prep.) A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war.
  • (prep.) A state of depression; low state; abasement.
  • (adv.) In the direction of gravity or toward the center of the earth; toward or in a lower place or position; below; -- the opposite of up.
  • (adv.) From a higher to a lower position, literally or figuratively; in a descending direction; from the top of an ascent; from an upright position; to the ground or floor; to or into a lower or an inferior condition; as, into a state of humility, disgrace, misery, and the like; into a state of rest; -- used with verbs indicating motion.
  • (adv.) In a low or the lowest position, literally or figuratively; at the bottom of a decent; below the horizon; of the ground; in a condition of humility, dejection, misery, and the like; in a state of quiet.
  • (adv.) From a remoter or higher antiquity.
  • (adv.) From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a thicker consistence; as, to boil down in cookery, or in making decoctions.
  • (adv.) In a descending direction along; from a higher to a lower place upon or within; at a lower place in or on; as, down a hill; down a well.
  • (adv.) Hence: Towards the mouth of a river; towards the sea; as, to sail or swim down a stream; to sail down the sound.
  • (v. t.) To cause to go down; to make descend; to put down; to overthrow, as in wrestling; hence, to subdue; to bring down.
  • (v. i.) To go down; to descend.

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