What's the difference between car and vehicular?

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 .

Vehicular


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a vehicle; serving as a vehicle; as, a vehicular contrivance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Approximately half were vehicular crash victims and 78% were men.
  • (2) All the patients sustained their knee ligament injury in sporting activities except one patient who was involved in a motor vehicular accident.
  • (3) We found that growth of the EMS system, as measured by the cumulative number of EMT's trained, correlated strongly with the decline in prehospital (r = 0.95; p less than 0.001), in-hospital (r = 0.84; p less than 0.001), total (r = 0.95; p less than 0.001), vehicular (r = 0.86; p less than 0.001), and nonvehicular (r = 0.93; p less than 0.001) trauma deaths.
  • (4) Farm, industrial, and vehicular accidents accounted for 80% of the cases.
  • (5) Death on the X-ray table while allowing persistence of hypovolemia was the common denominator in four of the five victims who died of ruptured spleens in the emergency departments, after having arrived alive following vehicular trauma.
  • (6) Those studied were 71.7% men, 77.4% whites, 63.2% vehicular trauma victims, 11.2% assault victims, and 25.7% other trauma victims.
  • (7) The best chance for fetal survival is to ensure maternal survival, so awareness of the types of injuries and their presentation after vehicular trauma is of the utmost importance.
  • (8) The increased use of child safety seats and seat belt restraints has significantly reduced the incidence of severe head injuries associated with motor vehicular accidents.
  • (9) Such additives would have to be stable in vehicular cooling systems and not adversely affect the functional aspects of AF performance.
  • (10) Epidemiological aspects manifested in vehicular accidents in New Delhi during the year 1983-84 are illustrated here.
  • (11) The NYPD arrested 11 protesters on Saturday, charging most of them with disorderly conduct, obstructing vehicular traffic and failing to disperse.
  • (12) We report a case of isolated complete azygos vein transection as a result of blunt motor vehicular trauma.
  • (13) In forty patients treated at The University of Texas Medical Branch Hospitals for fifty-two fractures of forty-one scapulae from 1961 through 1973, most of the fractures were the result of vehicular accidents.
  • (14) Space folk call these EVAs (short for extra-vehicular activity), but it is clearly the glamour job – and it excites the astronauts, who experience perhaps the most wondrous view that is ever experienced by anyone.
  • (15) Vehicular accidents accounted for 36% of cervical spine radiographic abnormalities, and sports or playground accidents accounted for an additional 36%.
  • (16) Most pediatric trauma is associated with vehicular and pedestrian accidents.
  • (17) Whether these associated injuries would have been neglected had laparotomy for splenic trauma not been performed is uncertain, and so non-operative management of splenic trauma remains contentious, particularly in cases following vehicular accidents.
  • (18) A little unfair – vindictive, even – as he's never insisted on driving, is happy to play the passive role in our vehicular relationship and I have far more road miles under my belt.
  • (19) The criteria used by medical examiners for vehicular suicide are also discussed.
  • (20) Breakdown of the cases into various modes of death showed that homicides, vehicular accidents, and suicides predominated.

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