What's the difference between cart and handcart?

Cart


Definition:

  • (n.) A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian dwelling on wheels, or a chariot.
  • (n.) A two-wheeled vehicle for the ordinary purposes of husbandry, or for transporting bulky and heavy articles.
  • (n.) A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, etc.
  • (n.) An open two-wheeled pleasure carriage.
  • (v. t.) To carry or convey in a cart.
  • (v. t.) To expose in a cart by way of punishment.
  • (v. i.) To carry burdens in a cart; to follow the business of a carter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The R&D team at Unilever, the British-Dutch behemoth that makes 40% of the ice creams we eat in the UK – Magnum, Ben & Jerry's, Cornetto and Carte D'Or among them – has invested heavily to create products that are both healthier and creamier.
  • (2) "They don't go to secondary school – they go out scrapping with horses and carts, and make a living from collecting metal.
  • (3) Existing bedside emergency resuscitation carts all have certain shortcomings, which interfere with the rapid, efficient care of the hospitalized patient in a catastrophic episode.
  • (4) Since the bloody coup of 1979, South Korea seems to have had journalistic carte blanche as the "lesser of two evils".
  • (5) Metabolic carts (MC) for indirect calorimetry are expensive, require the use of meticulous technique by trained personnel, and impose conditions that are difficult to maintain in critically ill patients.
  • (6) This success allows us to incorporate QEEG and CART into our technological armamentarium and to return to the evaluation of less well-understood disorders with confidence in both our findings and anatomoclinical principles we derive from them.
  • (7) Kondoli was pushing a makeshift wooden cart with the family's bedding and pots and pans, but it looked as if it was about to fall apart.
  • (8) Speaking through his biographer Joseph Farrell, Fo recalled his grandfather, an acclaimed storyteller, who would travel from village to village selling vegetables from a horse-drawn cart that the young Fo was allowed to drive.
  • (9) Sligo, Ireland This has to be one of the most perfect equine mini-breaks … with the freedom of the open road, bogland path, cart track and miles of sandy beach.
  • (10) The gourmet Monsieur Bleu only opened last year and is already a favourite power-lunch venue for art world movers and shakers, but the prices are not cheap (à la carte from €30pp).
  • (11) TV streaming and buying would be entirely à la carte.
  • (12) Start-up costs were determined to be less than $2,200 for the system which includes a mobile medication cart stocked with a limited inventory of prepackaged medications.
  • (13) Groceries were delivered and a horse-drawn fruit and veg cart called along the road weekly.
  • (14) The same multiple-choice questionnaire was distributed to nurses at the University of Michigan Hospitals 18 months before decentralized services were implemented (November 1982) and again after two satellite pharmacies had been established and a clinical pharmacist had begun providing first-dose dispensing services using a movable medication cart (March 1985).
  • (15) Like the rest of Tarkovsky’s filmography, these two works have received extensive analysis .Coming on the heels of the shelved Andrei Rublev , long withheld from release by the Soviet government, Solaris enjoyed such a degree of success that Tarkovsky was effectively given carte blanche for any future projects.
  • (16) Rats joined in surgical parabiosis for 25 to 30 days were tested by restraining one member of the pair on a movable cart while allowing the second member to remain free to move about.
  • (17) "Sometimes we'll talk about a feature, then we'll be like 'right, this is a shopping cart'.
  • (18) Specific modifications in anesthesia machines, anesthesia cart, laryngoscope, mercury sphygmomanometer, oximeter, and remote blood pressure devices are described.
  • (19) He seems equally prepared to be carted off in a body bag, if that helps.
  • (20) • carteblanchefoodcart.com Miss Kate's Southern Kitchen Miss Kate's Southern Kitchen Photograph: Marina O'Loughlin for the Guardian This folksy cart dishes out Southern comfort food: freshly made mac 'n' cheese, pumpkin-spiced waffles with maple butter, meatloaf and succotash .

Handcart


Definition:

  • (n.) A cart drawn or pushed by hand.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Should we care if the high street goes to hell in a handcart?
  • (2) That they see Britain as the place to do so says something heartening, when the popular narrative – jointly constructed by our media and our politics – says we are a declining nation going to hell in a handcart.
  • (3) George Osborne wants to be the chancellor who cut away the deficit so he can become prime minister, and the rest of the country can go to hell in a handcart.
  • (4) 11.26am GMT Yesterday, energy secretary Ed Davey was pushing the renewables handcart, using Russia and the Crimea as added justification for the growth of offshore wind farms, my colleague Terry Macalister reported.
  • (5) "While I sweep up the wrappers I watch the other rituals of the morning: Mr Halpert unlocking the laundry's handcart from its mooring to a cellar door, Joe Cornacchia's son-in-law stacking out the empty crates from the delicatessen, the barber bringing out his sidewalk folding chair ... Mr Lofaro, the short, thick-bodied, white-aproned fruit man who stands outside his doorway up the street, his arms folded, his feet planted, looking solid as earth itself."
  • (6) He pointed out that Love Productions – in which Sky bought a 70% stake last year – also made the controversial documentary Benefits Street , about communities subsisting on welfare: for him, the shows are flipsides of the same Daily Mail-ish coin: “The poor are going to hell in a handcart, but all is well in the village-hall vision of England.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Richard McKerrow, the co-founder of Love Productions.
  • (7) But that would mean linking arms with the side of the media that insists Britain has gone to hell in a handcart.
  • (8) All these freedoms were won in the face of ferocious opposition from the same hell-in-a-handcart brigade.
  • (9) The middle-aged folk of today might be an especially unhappy cohort, either because of their particular relationship to the economic cycle, or because they’re living through an era when everything actually is going to hell in a handcart.
  • (10) In Glasgow , we had lots of murders of young people, and we thought: 'we are going to hell in a handcart'.
  • (11) Yet there are Labour voices who believe our credibility depends on hitching ourselves to the coalition's handcart.
  • (12) THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS.” “THIS IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THIS COUNTRY GOING TO HELL IN A HANDCART.” The last of those points is an example of how well Breitbart knows its audience.

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