What's the difference between pram and tram?

Pram


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Prame

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The three young men were trying to get to grips with a troubling scene in which they lark about with a baby in its pram, poking it, pulling off its nappy, goading each other until they stone it to death.
  • (2) If you have young kids, bring a booster seat, as prams and pushchairs aren't allowed inside.
  • (3) Parish's (1972) Revised PRAM II did not detect any change, but Williams' (1971) PRAM II demonstrated a significant reduction in anti-Afro-American attitudes for those Ss who received 8 conditioning sessions.
  • (4) Prams triggered low-grade, non-specific anxiety: they were vehicles of entrapment.
  • (5) At our best we use it to spur on creativity, at our worst we launch our toys out of the pram and become drama queens instead of dramatists, citing conspiracy theories and the powers that be for destroying our work.
  • (6) Her baby daughter was also kitted out in Burberry, and Westbrook had a beige-check pram.
  • (7) Pickup, now 71, recalls the "horrible, infinitesimal detail of how accurate you had to be, partly because you didn't want stones bouncing off the pram into the audience".
  • (8) I mention David Miliband (whose claim for a £199 pram was rejected) and Jack Straw (who paid only half the amount of council tax he claimed back in allowances over four years – he apologised and repaid the difference).
  • (9) From there, it was a short hop to the repopularisation of the kind of archetypes that, in the 80s, were the preserve of boneheaded Tory MPs - not least that of the "Pram Face", defined on the website Urban Dictionary as "a girl who is a little rough round the edges and wouldn't look at all out of place at 14 years of age pushing a newborn through a council estate".
  • (10) New parents also face a £9,152 bill during the first twelve months of their new baby's life, taking into account expenditure on equipment such as buggies, cots and prams etc.
  • (11) The kindergarten teacher suffered a 5cm gash to her right hand, after intervening to stop a firework exploding in her three-year-old’s pram.
  • (12) These criminals are putting knives in kids hands, and the prams.
  • (13) The best casual game designers never assume that the player's attention will be fully on the game; they may be on the bus or even pushing a pram.
  • (14) Pavements and public transport become yours (I was once asked to get off a bus so a woman with a pram could get on, but let's not re-enact that ugly scene here) and the world can't get enough of you.
  • (15) Some claim that the pram in the hall is the enemy of art.
  • (16) The camera cuts back to show that alongside her in the gloom are other figures – but these are swathed in burkas, pushing prams.
  • (17) With the benefit of hindsight, Kid A's wilful racket now recalls the clatter of a rattle being thrown from a pram.
  • (18) I run in the dark with my iPod in full view and, like most Danish mothers, I would leave Liv sleeping in a pram outside a cafe.
  • (19) Three cases of accidental strangulation of children in prams are described.
  • (20) But that's very British – pram races, sea-boot races and a Jack in the Green festival that has very ancient roots.

Tram


Definition:

  • (n.) A four-wheeled truck running on rails, and used in a mine, as for carrying coal or ore.
  • (n.) The shaft of a cart.
  • (n.) One of the rails of a tramway.
  • (n.) A car on a horse railroad.
  • (n.) A silk thread formed of two or more threads twisted together, used especially for the weft, or cross threads, of the best quality of velvets and silk goods.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We conclude that although the tissue expansion technique yields acceptable results, the TRAM flap yields superior aesthetic results in terms of both appearance and consistency.
  • (2) The most commonly used techniques, in our institution, are tissue expansion, use of the latissimus dorsi flap, and use of the transverse rectus abdominis musculocutaneous (TRAM) flap.
  • (3) Both the TraM* and TraM' proteins were found to bind specifically to a broad region preceding the traM gene.
  • (4) This is true not only for TRAM and latissimus dorsi flaps, but also for the mastectomy flap necrosis sometimes encountered in immediate reconstruction with simple implants or tissue expanders.
  • (5) The fertility control gene finP, the transfer gene traM, and the transfer origin, oriT, of plasmid R100 were isolated on a single 1.2-kilobase EcoRV fragment and were then subcloned as HaeIII fragments.
  • (6) Before leaving for Afghanistan, Dahmane was a regular at an Islamic Centre in Molenbeek and met Malika el-Aroud, who later became his wife, at a tram stop in the city.
  • (7) How to buy tickets for a train or a tram, why we shouldn’t eat in the street or talk loudly on our cell phones, how we must talk to women … I want to stay here; it’s important to understand.” Like nearly 5,000 fellow asylum seekers in Vienna, Wafa lives in a large emergency refugee shelter and is awaiting a move to longer-term accommodation either in Vienna or elsewhere in Austria.
  • (8) Among these findings, tram-tracking of the optic nerve sheath complex is rare.
  • (9) Most major cities sell travel cards valid for multiple journeys or a specific number of days that can be used across buses, trams and metros and result in small savings that really add up.
  • (10) Until now, application of a TRAM free flap, however, has only taken place in special circumstances.
  • (11) The complication rate was equal for both groups (24%) with infection being most common in the group of patients with tissue expansion and partial flap necrosis being most common in the group of patients with TRAM flaps.
  • (12) Two reconstructive techniques were used, that is, either tissue expansion with secondary prosthesis implantation (60%) or transverse rectus abdominis musculocutaneous (TRAM) flap (40%).
  • (13) The mayor said from September 2018, an electric tram-bus – nicknamed the “Olympic tramway” in honour of Paris’s bid for the 2024 Games – would run next to part of the upper highways along the Seine in both directions.
  • (14) In this population, being a bus or tram driver was an independent predictor of CHD of considerable magnitude.
  • (15) Of the 7 of 20 (35 percent) free TRAM flap patients who required post-operative chemotherapy, only 1 of 7 (14 percent) was delayed because of TRAM flap complications.
  • (16) By hybridizing the IncFVII haemolytic plasmid pSU233 with a probe containing the origin of transfer of the IncFII plasmid R1, we isolated a 1.9 kb BglII fragment containing at least the origin of transfer (oriT), and the genes traM and finP.
  • (17) The characteristic findings of diffuse panbronchiolitis are diffuse small nodular shadows, overinflation and tram-lines.
  • (18) With crime falling and public transport improving, especially with the new tram networks, people want to live in urban areas like never before.
  • (19) He demonstrates a case of bilateral reconstruction of the breasts by means of a TRAM flap.
  • (20) The possible roles of the traI and traM products in conjugation are discussed.