What's the difference between cart and wagon?

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 .

Wagon


Definition:

  • (n.) A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise.
  • (n.) A freight car on a railway.
  • (n.) A chariot
  • (n.) The Dipper, or Charles's Wain.
  • (v. t.) To transport in a wagon or wagons; as, goods are wagoned from city to city.
  • (v. i.) To wagon goods as a business; as, the man wagons between Philadelphia and its suburbs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You wrote I Will Always Love You for Porter Wagoner, even though he had sued you.
  • (2) The danger is, in the face of western criticism and in the strong belief they have done more than most of their neighbours to be progressive, that they will now circle the wagons.
  • (3) Samples of fresh grass, wilted grass prior to and after ensiling in a stack silo and cut with either a cylinder-type forage harvester (11.3 mm of length cut) or a self-loading wagon (42.4 mm of length cut), wilted grass prior to and after ensiling in large round bales, and grass hay were obtained from the same field and used for determination of DM and CP degradability.
  • (4) Tractors accounted for one half of these machinery-related deaths, followed by farm wagons, combines, and forklifts.
  • (5) Individuals have decided to abandon their own families and jump on the Mandela wagon.
  • (6) Rail privatisation also saw the end of much domestic locomotive, wagon and carriage building – more workers on the scrapheap, more imports to further transform the balance of payments into a horror story.
  • (7) Although Knoller and the other young people in the wagon took it in turns to sit and stand, their efforts proved insufficient.
  • (8) "The meaning of the elections is: Italy can play a role; Italy is not the last wheel of the wagon; Italy is not the bottom of the class.
  • (9) The train now trundles through silent stations, its wagons free of the crowds of men, women and children who once clung to roofs and ladders.
  • (10) "The trains had 10 wagons and 100 people squeezed into each one," he says.
  • (11) If the wagons do start rolling in, I think there will be a massive upsurge,” he says.
  • (12) Nato thought better of hitching its wagon to the star of the hot-headed Georgian president.
  • (13) Gulnara Suleymanova and her family of five live in a wagon behind Baku’s prestigious new sports stadium, built especially for next month’s European Games.
  • (14) The wounded were being loaded into wagons; Wilfred managed to scramble up.
  • (15) If you then get the right of the party behaving in that way, that’s when you get real trouble and that’s the risk we’ve got at the moment: that there are some in the party all circling the wagon against Jeremy’s campaign.
  • (16) Secret Trump voters reverse their support: 'He seems to be insane' Read more As the Washington pundits and pollsters wrote them off, there was a sense of circling the wagons.
  • (17) She had become Snowflake’s unofficial welcome wagon, local therapist and advocate.
  • (18) "When resources are tight and all our inclinations are to pull the corporate wagons into a circle and fight to defend our own vested interests, that is exactly the time when we need to be at our boldest and most imaginative," he said.
  • (19) He was bundled into a wooden box which Roland had built specially for the job and then carried in a hand wagon to his Audi 8 car.
  • (20) 5.48pm BST Summary of today's events: - 196 bodies being stored in refrigerated railway wagons in Torez.