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Meanings of tram in English
Portuguese
teleférico Catalan
telefèric 
A conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers.
Synonyms
Examples for "tramway"
Examples for "tramway"
1
In old French towns, the words boulevard and tramway are generally anathema.
2
Our supplies were brought within about three miles on a light tramway.
3
At Lucerne I went up a tramway to the top of Mt.
4
After lunch, we strolled along the Boulevard du Jeu-de-Ballon, the tramway street.
5
The tramway operation had halted for the night, and all was quiet.
1
That is about to change: the national government has approved what would be Peru's first aerial tramway.
2
On the third day, they had spotted a line of wooden towers supporting an aerial tramway system.
3
A supervisor at the Santa Lucia end of the aerial tramway suddenly noticed that something was wrong.
4
A series of steep dirt trails lead to the top, or you can take the aerial tramway from Pala Springs.
5
Their target-anaerial tramway connecting the Matahambre copper mine with the port of Santa Lucia-wasless than a dozen miles away as the crow flies.
1
I have made some very careful observations on the cable tramway in Philadelphia, which is quite an extensive system.
2
A pint of old ale, and he'll take you up that hill like a cable tramway, and not hurt himself.'
3
On the south, the Lower Town is separated from the other districts by the Inca, a long street traversed by a cable tramway.
4
I do not intend to depreciate cable or any other tramways, but there is a difficulty about introducing cable tramways.
5
"I believe the ice will carry the farther end of the cable tramway out to sea."
Usage of tram in English
1
In the electric tram-car the haulage was effected by means of accumulators.
2
BBC Scotland's transport correspondent David Miller reports on the Edinburgh tram project.
3
Then they were in the tram, going towards the heart of Brussels.
4
To the left he heard the shrill jingle of an electric tram.
5
From there onwards in the tram to Kew Bridge, it became uninteresting.
6
Although the house is lonely it is on the electric tram route.
7
The tram was almost upon the thing when she first saw it.
8
And then Harold Etches leaned across the tram to him and said:
9
Engineers shored up the damaged house so the tram could be moved.
10
The tram driver recognised him and took him out to the cabin.
11
The tram was already gliding away at some distance down the road.
12
It is believed the car went into the path of the tram.
13
Driver Paul Barefoot described them as the tram equivalent of a BMW.
14
Afterwards I took the tram to Posilipo and came home by boat.
15
The trio waited two or three minutes for the tram to arrive.
16
On to the tram because we are all going to East Geenga.
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Tram through the time
Tram across language varieties
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Australia
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