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trol·ley

also trol·ly (trŏl′ē)

n. pl. trol·leys also trol·lies

1. A streetcar.

2. A device that collects electric current from an underground conductor, an overhead wire, or a third rail and transmits it to the motor of an electric vehicle.

3. A small truck or car operating on a track and used in a mine, quarry, or factory for conveying materials.

4. A wheeled carriage, cage, or basket that is suspended from and travels on an overhead track.

5. Chiefly British A light cart designed to be moved by hand.

tr. & intr.v. trol·leyed, trol·ley·ing, trol·leys also trol·lied (-lēd) or trol·ly·ing or trol·lies (-lēz)

To convey (passengers) or travel by trolley.

[Probably from troll.]

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trolley

(ˈtrɒlɪ)

1. (Furniture) Brit a small table on casters used for conveying food, drink, etc

2. Brit a wheeled cart or stand pushed by hand and used for moving heavy items, such as shopping in a supermarket or luggage at a railway station

3. (Medicine) Brit (in a hospital) a bed mounted on casters and used for moving patients who are unconscious, immobilized, etc

4. (Automotive Engineering) Brit See trolleybus

5. (Automotive Engineering) US and Canadian See trolley car

6. (Automotive Engineering) a device that collects the current from an overhead wire (trolley wire), third rail, etc, to drive the motor of an electric vehicle

7. (Mechanical Engineering) a pulley or truck that travels along an overhead wire in order to support a suspended load

8. (Automotive Engineering) chiefly Brit a low truck running on rails, used in factories, mines, etc, and on railways

9. (Mining & Quarrying) a truck, cage, or basket suspended from an overhead track or cable for carrying loads in a mine, quarry, etc

10. off one's trolley slang

a. mentally confused or disorganized

b. insane

(tr) to transport (a person or object) on a trolley

[C19: probably from troll¹]

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trol•ley

or trol•ly

(ˈtrɒl i)

n., pl. -leys or -lies, n.

1. trolley car.

2. a pulley or truck traveling on an overhead track and serving to support and move a suspended object.

a. a grooved wheel or pulley on the end of a pole, used by an electric streetcar or locomotive to draw current from an overhead conductor.

b. any of various other devices, as a pantograph, for collecting current for propulsion.

4. a small truck or car operated on a track, as in a mine or factory.

5. a serving cart, as one used to serve desserts.

6. Chiefly Brit. any of various low carts.

v.t., v.i.

7. to convey or go by trolley.

Idioms:

off one's trolley, Slang. mentally unstable; insane.

[1815–25; orig. dial.; appar. akin to troll ¹]

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Noun 1. [画像:trolley - a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity]trolley - a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity

streetcar, trolley car, tramcar, tram

horsecar - an early form of streetcar that was drawn by horses

self-propelled vehicle - a wheeled vehicle that carries in itself a means of propulsion

trolley line - a transit line using streetcars or trolley buses

Translations

عَرَبَة عَرَبَة الشاي على عَجَلاتعَرَبَةٌ صَغيرَةٌ للبَضائِع

vozíkservírovací stolek

indkøbsvognrullebordvogn

Karren Servierwagen Teewagen

τραπεζάκι με ρόδες

carrito carro

ostoskärry

chariot charrette char

kolica

bevásárlókocsitargoncazsúrkocsi

innkaupakerrateborî, skenkiborî

carrello carrello dei dolci

ワゴン

트롤리

stalelis ant ratukųtroleibusas

galdiņš uz ritentiņiemratiņi

trolley

kjerre tralle trillebord

wózek

carrinho de mão

тележка

servírovací stolík

voziček

kundvagn

รถเข็น

servis masası el arabası

xe đẩy

手推车

trolley

[ˈtrɒlɪ]

A. N

1. (esp Brit) (in station, supermarket) → carrito m; (in hospital) → camilla f; (in mine) → vagoneta f; (= tea trolley) → carrito m; (= drinks trolley) → mesita f de ruedas
to be off one's trolley (Brit) → estar chiflado

2. (US) (= tram) → tranvía m

3. (Tech) → corredera f elevada

4. (Elec) → trole m, arco m de trole

B. CPD trolley bus N → trolebús m
trolley car N (US) → tranvía m
trolley pole N → trole m

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trolley

[ˈtrɒli] n

(British) (for luggage) → chariot m; (in supermarket) → Caddie® m
luggage trolley → chariot m à bagages

(British) (for serving food or drink) → chariot m
tea trolley → table f roulante (pour servir le thé), chariot m (pour servir le thé)
drinks trolley → table f roulante (pour servir les boissons), chariot m (pour servir les boissons)
dessert trolley → chariot m des desserts

(British) (in hospital) → lit m roulant

(US) (also trolley car) (= streetcar) → tramway m, tram m

to be off one's trolley (British) (= mad) → être cinglé(e) trolley bus n → trolleybus mtrolley car n (US) → tramway m, tram m

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trolley

(Brit: = cart, four wheels) → Handwagen m; (in supermarket) → Einkaufswagen m; (in station) → Gepäckwagen m, → Ladekasten m; (for passengers) → Kofferkuli m; (two wheels, for golf clubs) → Caddy m; (in station, factory etc) → Sackkarre f

(Brit: = tea trolley) → Teewagen m

(Brit Rail) → Lore f, → Förderkarren m; (hand-driven) → Draisine f, → Dräsine f

(Elec, = trolley pole) → Kontaktarm m, → Stromabnehmerstange f; (= trolley-wheel) → Kontaktrolle f, → Rollenstromabnehmer m

(= passenger vehicle) = trolleybus (US: = trolley car) → Straßenbahn f

to be off one’s trolley (Brit inf) → nicht mehr alle Tassen im Schrank haben (inf)

trolley

trolleybus

n → Obus m, → Oberleitungsomnibus m (form), → Trolleybus m (dated)

trolley car

n (US) → Straßenbahn f

trolley pole

n → Kontaktarm m, → Stromabnehmerstange f

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trolley

[ˈtrɒlɪ] n (Brit) (in station, supermarket) (also tea trolley) → carrello ; (in hospital) → lettiga

trolley

(ˈtroli) noun

1. a type of small cart for carrying things etc. She quickly filled the trolley with groceries. trollie عَرَبَةٌ صَغيرَةٌ للبَضائِع количка carrinho de mão vozík der Karren indkøbsvogn καροτσάκι carrito käru چرخ دستی kärry chariot עגלה ट्रॉली niska kolica (bevásárló)kocsi; targonca kereta belanjaan innkaupakerra carretto 手押し車 트롤리 vežimėlis ratiņi troli trolley tralle, vogn wózek لاسی څرخ cărucior тележка vozík voziček kolica shoppingvagn รถเข็น el arabası 手推車 візок ٹرالي، ٹھيلا گاڑي xe đẩy 手推车

2. (also ˈtea-trolley , (American) ˈteacart) a small cart, usually consisting of two or three trays fixed on a frame, used for serving tea, food etc. She brought the tea in on a trolley. trollie, waentjie عَرَبَة الشاي على عَجَلات масичка на колелца carrinho de chá servírovací stolek der Teewagen rullebord τραπεζάκι με ρόδες mesita de ruedas serveerimislaud چرخ دستی پیشخدمت tarjoiluvaunu table roulante עֶגלַת תֵּה चाय ट्रॉली kolica za serviranje hrane zsúrkocsi kereta hidangan teborð, skenkiborð carrello ワゴン (음식 등을 나르는) 왜건 stalelis ant ratukų galdiņš uz ritentiņiem troli serveerboy trillebord wózek لاسی څرخ măsuţă pe rotile сервировочный столик servírovací stolík servirni voziček kolica za posluženje rullbord, te-, serveringsvagn รถเข็นสําหรับเสิร์ฟอาหาร servis masası (運送茶及食物的)手推車 столик на колесах ايک چھوٹي ٹھيلا گاڑي xe đẩy hàng (运送茶及食物的)手推车

ˈtrolley-bus noun

a bus which is driven by power from an overhead wire to which it is connected. trembus ترولي باص، باص كَهْرُبائي тролей carreta trolejbus der Bus mit Oberleitung trolleybus τρόλεϊ trolebús trollibuss اتوبوس برقی johdinauto trolleybus חשמלית ट्रॉली बस trolejbus trolibusz bis listrik rafnkúinn strætisvagn filobus トロリーバス 무궤도 전차 troleibusas trolejbuss bas elektrik trolleybus strømbuss trolejbus برقی بس troleibuz троллейбус trolejbus trolejbus trolejbus trådbuss รถไฟฟ้า troleybüs 無軌電車 тролейбус ٹرالي بس xe điện 无轨电车

trolley

→ عَرَبَة vozík vogn Servierwagen τραπεζάκι με ρόδες carro ostoskärry chariot kolica carrello ワゴン 트롤리 trolley kjerre wózek carrinho de mão тележка kundvagn รถเข็น servis masası xe đẩy 手推车

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The staves of the barrel and the wheels of the trolley were smeared with a dark liquid, and the whole air was heavy with the smell of creasote.

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The mouth of that mine goes right into the face of the cliff, and they used to put us in a bucket and run us over on a trolley and shoot us into the shaft.

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Wouverman was not ready for Disko's prices till Disko, sure that the "We're Here" was at least a week ahead of any other Gloucester boat, had given him a few days to swallow them; so all hands played about the streets, and Long Jack stopped the Rocky Neck trolley, on principle, as he said, till the conductor let him ride free.

He and Harvey went out on the trolley to East Gloucester, where they tramped through the bayberry-bushes to the lighthouse, and lay down on the big red boulders and laughed themselves hungry.

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Yet I had come in the degenerate day of trolley, bicycle and rural delivery, when communication was easy between the scattered mountain villages, and the bigger towns in the valleys, such as Bettsbridge and Shadd's Falls, had libraries, theatres and Y.

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In front of them a porter pushes a trolley piled high with trunks, wraps, and gun-cases.

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Now, sitting in the trolley car, they realized that they were on their way to the home of it--that they had traveled all the way from Lithuania to it.

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The block-and-tackle, running like a trolley on the overhead track, made it possible for the assistant to seize his tail and drag him through the air till he was above the chair.

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Then he showed them the wards one after another, the storeroom, the linen room, then the heating stove of a new pattern, then the trolleys, which would make no noise as they carried everything needed along the corridors, and many other things.

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The motor-cars that went by northward and southward grew more and more powerful and efficient, whizzed faster and smelt worse, there appeared great clangorous petrol trolleys delivering coal and parcels in the place of vanishing horse-vans, motor-omnibuses ousted the horse-omnibuses, even the Kentish strawberries going Londonward in the night took to machinery and clattered instead of creaking, and became affected in flavour by progress and petrol.

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Evidently it had arrived on the scene in the nick of time-- after the telegraph and before the trolleys and electric lights.

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