plural carts
1
: a heavy usually horse-drawn 2-wheeled vehicle used for farming or transporting freight
2
: a lightweight 2-wheeled vehicle drawn by a horse, pony, or dog
3
a
: a small wheeled vehicle see golf cart, grocery cart, shopping cart sense 1
b
: a table with wheels that is used especially for serving food
I make conversation after asking to look at the menu: That apple tart on the dessert cart—who made it, and what's in the crust?—
Corby Kummer
Corby Kummer4
: a temporary record of items selected for purchase from an online vendor : shopping cart sense 2
You head back to your favorite Web shopping site, and the stuff you crammed in your cart last time is still there, waiting for you to buy it or dump it.—Neil Randall
Neil Randall
carted; carting; carts
1
: to carry or convey in or as if in a cart
buses to cart the kids to and from school—L. S. Gannett
L. S. Gannett2
: to take or drag away without ceremony or by force
—usually used with off
they carted him off to jail
carter
noun
Synonyms
Examples of cart in a Sentence
Noun
a cart piled up with hay
Verb
We carted some dirt to the garden.
I carted all the books home.
He carted the bags away.
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Nicol Natale, People.com, 18 Jan. 2025
These items all deserve a spot in your Amazon cart.
—Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 17 Jan. 2025
Nate Taylor, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
The novel describes, among other barbaric acts, how soldiers and police threw bodies carelessly into trucks that carted them off to be hidden or burned.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025
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Noun
In the past month alone, more than 300 Amazon shoppers have added it to their carts.
—Nicol Natale, People.com, 18 Jan. 2025
These items all deserve a spot in your Amazon cart.
—Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 17 Jan. 2025
Verb
Within minutes, Rice was carted off to the locker room, his hands and a towel covering his face.
—Nate Taylor, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
The novel describes, among other barbaric acts, how soldiers and police threw bodies carelessly into trucks that carted them off to be hidden or burned.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025
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“Cart.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cart. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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cart
1 of 2 noun1
: a heavy two-wheeled wagon usually pulled by a horse
2
: a light usually two-wheeled vehicle
pony cart
cart
2 of 2 verb
: to carry in or as if in a cart
carter
noun
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