English Dictionary

wagon

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈwæɡ(ə)n/

名詞

略語 別表記 俗語 オーストラリア英語 アメリカ英語 アイルランド英語 古風 軽蔑的

A heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or sometimes people).

日本語の意味

荷馬車 ‒ 荷物（または時には人）を運搬するための、重く四輪を有し、通常は馬によって牽引される車両

The farmers loaded sacks of grain onto the old wooden wagon before the long trip to market.

農夫たちは市場への長い旅に出る前に、古い木製の荷馬車に穀物の袋を積み込んだ。

意味（1）

A heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or sometimes people).

These wagons and pack-mules will include transportation for all personal baggage, mess chests, cooking utensils, desks, papers, &c.

意味（2）

Abbreviation of toy wagon; A child's riding toy, with the same structure as a wagon (sense 1), pulled or steered by a long handle attached to the front.

[…] [Debra] Van Ausdale transcribes an exchange among two white girls (both aged four) and one Asian girl (age three) who are playing with a wagon. One of the white girls is pulling the other children. When the wagon gets stuck the Asian girl jumps out to help pull. The white girl responds, No, no. You can't pull this wagon. Only white Americans can pull this wagon. […] Here, a four-year-old is using a construction that joins race and perceptions of citizenship to exclude in her play.

意味（3）

(rail transport) A vehicle (wagon) designed to transport goods or people on railway.

Various methods have been suggested for effecting this transfer by a bodily removal of whole wagons; either by lifting the bodies from one set of wheels to another, or transferring the wagons, wheels and all, to some kind of truck; but practically these projects wholly fail. […] It is calculated that to bring a train of fifty wagons under the machine, one by one, a horse would have to traverse five miles and a half.

意味（4）

Short for dinner wagon (“set of light shelves mounted on castors so that it can be pushed around a dining room and used for serving”).

With the important exception of religious myths, the hybridized and grafted Marxist myths are like whole-dessert wagons with almost everybody's favorite sweets—all of them with no calories (costs) and chock-full of nutrients (benefits) guaranteeing everything good for almost everyone, except the few rich; yet all of them also are enflamed by fears and hatreds of the mythical Satans conspiring to steal the dessert wagon and immiserate all the rest of us.

意味（5）

(slang) Short for paddy wagon (“police van for transporting prisoners”).

I began as a patrol officer, working the wagon, squad car, and three-wheelers until 1963, when I took the detective exam.

意味（6）

(chiefly Australia, US, slang) Short for station wagon (“type of car in which the roof extends rearward to produce an enclosed area in the position of and serving the function of the boot (trunk)”); (by extension) a sport utility vehicle (SUV); any car.

The woman had been photographed in the driver's seat of a late-model Jeep wagon; walking across what appeared to be a large parking lot; inside her kitchen and her bedroom, blissfully unaware that her privacy was being invaded by binoculars and telephoto lenses in the hands of a slob like Thigpen.

意味（7）

(Ireland, slang, derogatory, dated) A woman of loose morals, a promiscuous woman, a slapper; (by extension) a woman regarded as obnoxious; a bitch, a cow.

[…] I was in a field last week with Ursula Brogan behind the football pitch. We followed Cissy Caffery there and two boys from the secondary. She’s a wagon. She did it with them one after the other, and we watched.

意味（8）

(mathematics) A kind of prefix used in de Bruijn notation.

意味（9）

(slang) Buttocks.

wagons （ plural ）