automobile
IPA: ˈɔtʌmoʊbiɫ
noun
- (US, Canada) A type of vehicle designed to move on the ground under its own stored power and intended to carry a driver, a small number of additional passengers, and a very limited amount of other load. A car or motorcar.
verb
- (intransitive, dated) To travel by automobile.
adjective
- Self-moving; self-propelled.
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Examples of "automobile" in Sentences
- Before the word automobile entered the lexicon, people talked about horseless carriages.
- The mobile lifestyle will disappear but Americans will discover that losing the automobile is a small tragedy compared to losing food.
- In contemporary Canada the environmentalists tell us the automobile is the bane of the modern world and economists tell us it is at the core of the modern economy.
- Could we get to a point where the amount of fossil fuels necessary to recharge the hydrogen battery in a automobile is a lot less than what we currently use in gasoline?
- When all the businesses related to the automobile are added to the total, the automobile is said to be the source of one out of every six to eight jobs in North America.
- So, in a sense, we can consider it a victory for the cause of reason that we have at least established that the automobile is a valuable and essential component of modern life.
- And of course we become attached more easily to self moving things and creatures it's a pity the term automobile is taken in a way that is less common with plants and inanimate objects.
- The fact that Standard Oil made gasoline cheap instead of expensive during the early development of the automobile is the reason we didn't drive battery-electric cars (of which there were more in 1900 than gasoline powered cars) for the last century.
- Whilst admiring the ‘immense talent’ of Ballard in transforming a vague, banal terrain into a hallucinatory hell — a feat also achieved in Crash — Griset observes that although Concrete Island may be a continuation of the earlier novel, this time the automobile is a mere symbolic pretext for an examination of the flip-side of our ordered, automated, aseptic lifestyle.
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