What's the difference between motorcar and phaeton?

Motorcar


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A 49-year-old man was hit and run by a motorcar in acrossing a road on foot, and he died 1 hour later in an emergency hospital.
  • (2) The purpose of this study was to determine the clinical, epidemiological and evolutive characteristics of interdigital and plantar intertrigo of the feet among people working in a coking plant, a potash mine and a motorcar factory.
  • (3) In these motorcar dependent neighbourhoods, residents are at risk of transport poverty.” Furthermore, dependencies on cars add to obesity and other health problems, the report warned.
  • (4) In 1940, Henry Ford prophesied that “a combination of airplane and motorcar is coming.
  • (5) For motorcar service mechanics, TWA exposure levels ranged from 0.014 to 1.7 ppm.
  • (6) They involved cyclists (38.3%), pillion passengers on cycles (1.9%), pedestrians (29.3%), motorcar drivers (7.8%), motorcar passengers (3.6%), passengers entering or leaving a vehicle (7.3%), mopedists (6.8%), motorcyclists (3.5%), and "others" (1.6%).
  • (7) Motorcycles have traditionally been a mode of transport that was an inexpensive alternative to motorcars.
  • (8) 1987, the traffic accidental death was recorded 278 cases including 216 cases for male and 62 cases for female respectively being specified as followings: 1) Victims-pedestrians: 168 cases, violent falling from two-wheelers (bicycle or motor-cycle, caused by the rider's faults: 21 cases, collision between two-wheelers in motion and motorcar: 50 cases, motorcar in motion: 30 cases (18 drivers and 12 fellow passengers), airplane accident: 1 case, railroad accident: 1 case, and 2 cases other than those.
  • (9) There are almost no pregnant women who never use a motorcar.
  • (10) Unfortunately, this creates a vicious circle: more roads encourage urban sprawl, which increases the use of motorcars,” the report said.
  • (11) In the present case the second, very rare, type developed after a motorcar accident.
  • (12) On the one hand Judt had an eye for telling detail, whether it was the fact that in 1951 only one French household in 12 possessed a motorcar, or that in 1982 the state corporation IRI controlled a quarter of Italian ice-cream production.
  • (13) Complex assessment of the pupils studied the metalworker of motorcar repair service.
  • (14) For many this has discouraged local production and has bred rampant corruption, from importers who overprice, to government officials getting a cut of the approved quota, and even one unnamed motorcar racer who got more than $60m for "sports activities" abroad.
  • (15) Traditional residential blocks and narrow streets were deemed unhealthy and suppressive, and the utopian vision was of streets in the sky and grand boulevards for the motorcar.
  • (16) Downtown, there were, to paraphrase a classic tune, no lights, few phones, drowned motorcars, not a single lux-u-ry.
  • (17) The difference is especially great concerning the incidence of traffic accidents, the proportion of young persons involved in cycle accidents, and the number of accidents caused by motorcar drivers who developed sudden illness whilst driving.
  • (18) Does it have anything to do with the Aston-Martin motorcar?"
  • (19) A total of 138 workers of a motorcar transportation plant were examined to show a degree of lead damage.

Phaeton


Definition:

  • (n.) A four-wheeled carriage (with or without a top), open, or having no side pieces, in front of the seat. It is drawn by one or two horses.
  • (n.) See Phaethon.
  • (n.) A handsome American butterfly (Euphydryas, / Melitaea, Phaeton). The upper side of the wings is black, with orange-red spots and marginal crescents, and several rows of cream-colored spots; -- called also Baltimore.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The next version of the luxury Phaeton saloon car will be electric and VW will develop a standardised electric toolkit to fit all passenger cars and light commercial vehicles.
  • (2) The next version of the Phaeton saloon car will be electric and VW will develop a standardised electric toolkit for all vehicles.
  • (3) Greece’s new leader, they cried, was like the mythological figure Phaeton who, when given the reins of the sun chariot for a day, lost control and, almost destroyed the earth.
  • (4) On the surface, the World Economic Forum remains an ostentatiously exclusive event in a drab Alpine town, where icy side roads lead to shuttered Edwardian villas and every hotel has blacked-out Volkswagen Phaetons parked outside.
  • (5) An examination of seven proteins, presumably encoded by seven structural gene loci, in three local populations of the supposedly sedentary and colonial butterfly, Euphydryas phaeton revealed that three (43 per cent) were polymorphic with three to five alleles each.

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