trolley
IPA: trˈɑɫi
noun
- A trolley pole; a single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line, normally for a tram/streetcar or a trolleybus.
- (US) A streetcar or light train.
- (US, colloquial) A light rail, tramway, trolleybus or streetcar system.
- A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.
- A truck which travels along the fixed conductors in an electric railway, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Ireland) A cart or shopping cart; a shopping trolley.
- (Britain) A hand truck.
- (Britain) A soapbox car.
- (Britain) A gurney, a stretcher with wheeled legs.
- (Philippines) A handcar.
verb
- To bring to by trolley.
- To use a trolley vehicle to go from one place to another.
- To travel by trolley (streetcar, trolleybus or light train).
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Examples of "trolley" in Sentences
- Many rode the trolley to school.
- There is a trolley in background.
- A trolley is mounted on this pole.
- The restaurant used to be a trolley car.
- As in this picture the trolley is in full flight.
- In the 1950's the 661 Trolley Bus replaced the tram.
- The trolley cars are part of the Seashore Trolley Museum.
- The term 'trolley' predates the invention of the trolley pole.
- The terms trolley pole and trolley wheel both derive from the troller.
- The end of the trolley spelled the end of Bonnie Brae and the end of an era.
- In fact, the trolley is not a forgone conclusion, but it is in the eyes of the Planners.
- The ads were designed by the New York ad agency DeVito/Verdi, which vetoed one idea as too crass: This trolley is a lot like your mother.
- The first and most obvious contribution of Foot's trolley is that it raises new questions and suggests that we do not have an adequate theory of moral judgements.
- First, if a trolley is heading down a track on a path to kill five people, should you flip a switch that will place it on an alternate track, where it will kill only one?
- I said "I think those are for the staff only" because indeed, the things we call trolley's in Canada ARE for staff only for hauling out large retail items like TVs and furniture.
- Whether locals want to go to work, to the shop, out hunting, to visit relatives in the next village or simply go for a ride, the trolley is the easiest and often only means of transport ...
- Second, if a trolley is again headed for those five people (with no alternate track), should you push a fat man in the way of the trolley, killing him, but derailing the car and again saving the five?
- Secondly, because the trolley is a rail-guided vehicle -- it doesn't steer, therefore it doesn't swerve, and, more to the point, it doesn't wander across several lanes of traffic to argue with another vehicle.
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