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cable car
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Getting into the precarious cable car , the ebullient engineer had himself hauled to the far side and back again. ▪ It is centrally situated, and a ten minute walk from the cable car which leads to some magnificent mountain walks. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A cable car is any of a variety of transportation systems relying on cables to pull vehicles along or lower them at a steady rate. The terminology also refers to the vehicles on these systems. The cable car vehicles are motorless and engineless and they ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n : a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway; "they took a cable car to the top of the mountain" [syn: car ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 A streetcar moved by gripping to rotating loop of cable running along the track. 2 A hanging carriage or car for transporting people or cargo n. 1 A streetcar moved by gripping to rotating loop of cable running along the track. 2 A hanging carriage ...
Usage examples of cable car.
Once inside the mesh there was a cable car that dropped on looping wires to the settlement, but Zo usually went instead to the gatehouse and got her birdsuit out of its locker, and slipped into it and zipped up, and ran off a flier's platform and spread her wings, and flew in lazy spirals down to the north rim town, to dinner on one of the dining terraces, watching parrots and cockatiels and lorikeets dart about trying to scavenge a meal.
Once inside the mesh there was a cable car that dropped on looping wires to the settlement, but Zo usually went instead to the gatehouse and got her birdsuit out of its locker, and slipped into it and zipped up, and ran off a flier’.
Whether or not that cable car had come on down the mountain, by now Blofeld would have had time to get one down full of SPECTRE men.
When he'd built Skinner's funicular, the elevator that crawled like a small cable car up the angled iron of the tower, when the old man's hip had gotten too bad to allow him to easily climb, Fontaine had had a story about the derivation of each piece.
Men were unloading spiles from a cable car that ran out on the pier on a little construction railway, as well as other material with which to fill in the pier.
She had travelled by snowmobile and bicycle, cable car and gravity train, and once took a short trip on a camel.
The cable car picked up speed, swaying gently as it crossed the scrub-strewn plain.
He could see the cable car station where they'd arrived, and silently hoped Tariq would insist on driving them all down the Rock at the end of the night.