What is another word for trams?

Pronunciation: [tɹˈamz] (IPA)

Trams, also known as streetcars or trolleys, are vehicles that run on tracks in urban areas and provide a form of public transportation. Synonyms for trams include trolleybuses, light rail, cable cars, and electric cars. Trolleybuses have rubber tires and run on overhead wires like trams, while light rail is a faster, more modern form of tram that can operate on its own dedicated tracks or share the road with other vehicles. Cable cars are mostly used for tourist purposes and run on cables that are driven by a motor located in a central station. Electric cars are a type of tram that are powered by batteries and do not require overhead wires.

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Usage examples for Trams

No horrid slum houses to depress one, no trams or motor-cars; and the people all looking so plump and cheerful.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
Of the thousands who moved beneath her, upon trams, in cabs, in cars, on foot, how many were servants of that mysterious master?
"The Sins of Séverac Bablon"
Sax Rohmer
Every sound-the distant rattling of some cab, the faint murmur of trams-was stifled, extinguished.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole

Famous quotes with Trams

  • There is always something sad about the trams, may be because they are like our lives: They appear from nothingness and disappear in the horizon of the crowds.
    Mehmet Murat ildan
  • Nothing new was to be done or learned there, and the world hurried on to its telephones, bicycles, and electric trams. At past fifty, Adams solemnly and painfully learned to ride the bicycle.
    Henry Adams
  • You say that the magistrate's decision is unsatisfactory because it would enable a person, however unclean, to travel by a tram, and that even the Kaffirs would be able to do so. But the magistrate's decision is quite different. The Court declared that the Kaffirs have no legal right to travel by tram. And according to tram regulations, those in an unclean dress or in a drunken state are prohibited from boarding a tram. Thanks to the Court's decision, only clean Indians or coloured people other than Kaffirs, can now travel in the trams.
    Mahatma Gandhi
  • Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. lt must be spread everywhere – on the streets, in the trams, factories, workshops, and in the workers' homes.
    Vladimir Mayakovsky

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