tram

noun

Definition of tramnext
as in wheelbarrow

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Recent Examples of tram Take a tram up the clear river, and then float back down for miles. — Casey Barber, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2025 Signature Adventure: Really, ride the tram to the top of the arch. — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 21 Jan. 2025 Automated trams that shuttle passengers from landside to airside will be removed. — Chrissy Suttles, Axios, 16 Jan. 2025 And then there’s the Trackless Tram — essentially buses or trams guided by autonomous systems on roads or guideways, rather than along rails. — Nicole Kobie, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tram
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tram
  1. wheelbarrow
  2. wagon
  3. truck
  4. hand truck
  5. pushcart
  6. cart
Noun
  • Historically, shedding pounds garnered an automatic congratulations (see Oprah and her wheelbarrow of fat in 1988, or Valerie Bertinelli’s Jenny Craig ads almost two decades later).
    — Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • Vendors on crowded sidewalks hawked shoes, bananas, wallets and bottles of cold water and soda from wheelbarrows.
    — Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of wheelbarrow
Noun
  • The wagon floats start at Bienville and Chartres streets at 10:30am and end at the restaurant.
    — Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 3 Apr. 2025
  • The men stacked 15 half-barrels, each weighing about 65 pounds, in the wagon.
    — Andrew Lawler, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2025
Definition of wagon
Noun
  • Trump is excluding goods subject to separate, 25% national security tariffs, including steel and aluminum, cars, trucks and auto parts.
    — David Lawder, USA Today, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Torching a car dealership’s Ford F-150 truck brings criminal consequences, including jail.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2025
Definition of truck
Noun
  • Sandoz wheeled a roughly 250-pound condensing unit into place on a hand truck with the grace of a ballroom dancer.
    — Andrew Ford, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2024
  • The back doors roll up, and a crew of delivery workers begins sorting and stacking hundreds of boxes and pouches onto rolling dollies and hand trucks.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 12 May 2023
Definition of hand truck
Noun
  • Like iconic Pacific Northwest coffee brand Starbucks, Dutch Bros also got its start in the uppermost region of the contiguous U.S., founded in 1992 by two brothers and a pushcart in Oregon.
    — Sydney Cella, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2025
  • It was started in a pushcart on the Lower East Side by my grandfather, Harry Rothman.
    — Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 31 Jan. 2025
Definition of pushcart
Noun
  • The next generation of MCG devices, however, are much smaller and self-contained, able to be installed next to a hospital bed or brought to patients on a cart for point-of-care use.
    — Jack Hidary, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The nearby flower district is on its last legs (although the hotel nods to it’s legacy with a fresh flower cart).
    — Christopher Cameron, Robb Report, 9 Apr. 2025
Definition of cart

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