What's The Definition Of Carriage?
[n] a wheeled vehicle drawn by horses
[n] a machine part that carries something else
[n] a railcar where passengers ride
[n] characteristic way of bearing one's body; "stood with good posture"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Carriage: bearing |
equipage |
passenger car |
posture |
rig
Related Terms | Find terms related to Carriage: action |
actions |
activity |
acts |
address |
affectation |
aid |
air |
air express |
aircraft |
airfreight |
airlift |
araba |
asportation |
attitude |
backing |
baggage car |
barouche |
bearing |
beck |
beckon |
behavior |
behavior pattern |
behavioral norm |
behavioral science |
berlin |
body language |
boxcar |
break |
britska |
brougham |
brow |
buggy |
caboose |
cabriolet |
calash |
Cape cart |
car |
carrier |
carry |
carryall |
carrying |
cart |
cartage |
cast |
cast of countenance |
chair car |
chaise |
charabanc |
charade |
chariot |
chironomy |
clarence |
coach |
coal car |
color |
complexion |
comportment |
Concord buggy |
conduct |
conveyance |
countenance |
coupe |
covered waggon |
culture pattern |
custom |
dactylology |
day coach |
deaf-and-dumb alphabet |
demeanor |
deportment |
desobligeant |
diner |
dinghy |
dining car |
dogcart |
doing |
doings |
drag |
drawing room |
dray |
drayage |
droshky |
dumb show |
expressage |
face |
facial appearance |
favor |
feature |
features |
ferriage |
flat |
flatcar |
fly |
folkway |
four-in-hand coach |
four-wheeler |
freight |
freightage |
garb |
gesticulation |
gesture |
gesture language |
gestures |
gharry |
gig |
glass coach |
goings-on |
gondola |
growler |
guise |
hack |
hackery |
hackney |
hand signal |
hansom |
hansom cab |
haulage |
hauling |
jaunty car |
jigger |
jinrikisha |
kinesics |
kittereen |
landau |
lighterage |
limber |
lineaments |
lines |
local |
looks |
luggage van |
lugging |
mail car |
mail van |
maintenance |
maintien |
manner |
manners |
medium of transportation |
method |
methodology |
methods |
mien |
modus vivendi |
moral support |
motion |
motions |
movement |
movements |
moves |
observable behavior |
oxcart |
packing |
palace car |
pantomime |
parlor car |
passenger car |
pattern |
phaeton |
physiognomy |
poise |
port |
portage |
porterage |
pose |
post chaise |
postage |
posture |
poundage |
practice |
praxis |
presence |
procedure |
proceeding |
psychological support |
Pullman |
Pullman car |
railway car |
railway express |
reefer |
refrigerator car |
reliance |
road cart |
rockaway |
roomette |
runabout |
security blanket |
shay |
shipment |
shipping |
shrug |
sidecar |
sign language |
sleeper |
smoker |
smoking car |
sociable |
social science |
spring wagon |
stance |
stanhope |
stockcar |
style |
subsidy |
subvention |
sulky |
support |
supportive relationship |
supportive therapy |
surrey |
sustaining |
sustainment |
sustenance |
sustentation |
tactics |
tallyho |
tandem |
tank |
telpherage |
tender |
tone |
tonnage |
toting |
traits |
transit |
transport |
transportation |
transporting |
transshipment |
trap |
troika |
trolley |
truck |
truckage |
tumbrel |
turn |
upholding |
upkeep |
van |
vehicle |
vettura |
visage |
vis-a-vis |
voiture |
voiturette |
waft |
waftage |
waggon |
wagonage |
wagonette |
watercraft |
way |
way of life |
ways |
whiskey |
Whitechapel cart
See Also | awkwardness |
axletree |
baby buggy |
baby carriage |
barouche |
bodily property |
brougham |
buckboard |
buffet car |
buggy |
cab |
cabriolet |
car |
chair car |
chaise |
chariot |
clumsiness |
coach |
coach-and-four |
diner |
dining car |
dining compartment |
drawing-room car |
droshky |
drosky |
four-in-hand |
gharry |
gig |
go-cart |
gracefulness |
hackney |
hackney carriage |
hackney coach |
hansom |
hansom cab |
landau |
lathe |
manner of walking |
mechanism |
nonsmoker |
nonsmoking car |
palace car |
parlor car |
parlour car |
passenger train |
perambulator |
post chaise |
pram |
Pullman |
Pullman car |
pushchair |
pusher |
railcar |
railroad car |
railway car |
roadster |
rumble |
shay |
sleeper |
sleeping car |
slouch |
smoker |
smoking car |
smoking carriage |
smoking compartment |
stroller |
surrey |
trap |
typewriter |
typewriter carriage |
wagon-lit |
walk |
wheeled vehicle
Carriage In Webster's Dictionary
\Car"riage\, n. [OF. cariage luggage, carriage,
chariage carriage, cart, baggage, F. charriage, cartage,
wagoning, fr. OF. carier, charier, F. charrier, to cart. See
{Carry}.]
1. That which is carried; burden; baggage. [Obs.]
David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of
the carriage. --1. Sam.
xvii. 22.
And after those days we took up our carriages and
went up to Jerusalem. --Acts. xxi.
15.
2. The act of carrying, transporting, or conveying.
Nine days employed in carriage. --Chapman.
3. The price or expense of carrying.
4. That which carries of conveys, as:
(a) A wheeled vehicle for persons, esp. one designed for
elegance and comfort.
(b) A wheeled vehicle carrying a fixed burden, as a gun
carriage.
(c) A part of a machine which moves and carries of
supports some other moving object or part.
(d) A frame or cage in which something is carried or
supported; as, a bell carriage.
5. The manner of carrying one's self; behavior; bearing;
deportment; personal manners.
His gallant carriage all the rest did grace.
--Stirling.
6. The act or manner of conducting measures or projects;
management.
The passage and whole carriage of this action.
--Shak.
{Carriage horse}, a horse kept for drawing a carriage.
{Carriage porch} (Arch.), a canopy or roofed pavilion
covering the driveway at the entrance to any building. It
is intended as a shelter for those who alight from
vehicles at the door; -- sometimes erroneously called in
the United States {porte-coch[`e]re}.
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