car

voiture, automobile

Un véhicule à quatre roues avec un moteur, qui transporte quelques personnes sur les routes.

En anglais simple : A vehicle with four wheels and an engine, used to carry a few people on roads.

• Our car is blue.
• She drove her car to work.
• Where did you park the car?

Synonymes : automobile, auto

Expressions courantes : drive a car, by car, car park, a new car

wagon, voiture

Un des éléments d’un train servant à transporter des personnes ou des marchandises.

En anglais simple : One of the separate sections of a train, carrying people or goods.

• We sat in the last car.
• The train has six passenger cars.
• They served breakfast in the dining car.

Synonymes : carriage, wagon, coach

Expressions courantes : railroad car, dining car, freight car, sleeping car

cabine

La partie mobile d’un ascenseur ou d’un téléphérique qui transporte des personnes ou des marchandises.

En anglais simple : The part of a lift or cable transport system that moves while carrying people or goods.

• The elevator car stopped suddenly.
• Six people stepped into the lift car.
• The cable pulled the car up the steep slope.

Synonymes : cabin

Expressions courantes : elevator car, lift car, cable car

wagon, wagon complet

Une quantité de marchandises suffisante pour remplir un wagon.

En anglais simple : An amount of goods large enough to fill one railway wagon.

• They ordered a car of coal.
• Three cars of grain arrived yesterday.
• The factory receives twenty cars of gypsum each month.

Comment l'utiliser : a car of something (The mine shipped a car of coal.)

Synonymes : carload, wagonload

Expressions courantes : a car of coal, a car of grain, a car of timber