vehicles
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
vehicle/ˈviːəkl/
▶noun
- 1 a thing used for transporting people or goods on land, e.g. a car, truck, or cart.
- 2 a means of expressing, embodying, or fulfilling something.
■ a substance that facilitates the use of a drug, pigment, or other material mixed with it.
- 3 a film, programme, song, etc., intended to display the leading performer to the best advantage.
– derivatives
vehicular /vɪˈhɪkjʊlə/ adjective.
vehicular /vɪˈhɪkjʊlə/ adjective.
– origin C17: from Fr. véhicule or L. vehiculum, from vehere ‘carry’.
'vehicles' also found in these Oxford entries:
aftermarket
- alternative fuel
- armour
- automotive
- back
- bank
- barn
- battery
- body shop
- brightwork
- cable
- caltrop
- car park
- carriage
- carriageway
- car wash
- cattle grid
- cavalcade
- cavalry
- clearway
- column
- concours
- consist
- convoy
- coupling
- crown wheel
- depot
- derv
- DMV
- echelon
- enduro
- fender bender
- fiacre
- filter
- fleet
- garage
- hardstanding
- hill climb
- hitchhike
- Jaws of Life
- lay-by
- left-hand drive
- light engine
- lighting-up time
- livery
- loading bay
- mechanize
- merry-go-round
- -mobile
- MOT
