carriage
8
6.7
- noun
- /ˈkɛrɪdʒ/
- Specialized
:
carro
- Delia settled in her swivel chair, rolled paper into the carriage, and started typing.
- carriage assembly
Examples
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These affect the automatic feeding of the carriage or the cross slide.
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Standard size ranges include a 6-by-6-inch carriage with travels from 18 to 42 in.
Academic text (1995) -
These are main springs that allow the carriage to come back after you push it.
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Barton takes a finished page out of the carriage and places it face down on the growing stack to his right.
Fiction book (1991) -
To make these measurements, the Wrights placed the Flyer in a shed and perched it on its launch carriage.
Academic text (2003) -
Delia settled in her swivel chair, rolled paper into the carriage, and started typing.
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The cables serve to keep each lifting carriage at equal levels so the car doesn't rise unevenly.
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These are main springs that allow the carriage to come back after you push it.
Synonyms
The part of a typewriter that holds and moves the paper while you type
Compounds
8
1.4
A small cart with four wheels that you push to carry a baby who is lying down or sitting
- Specialized
1
6.7
A metal rod with a round head and partial threads used to join wood through a hole
- Archaic
1
9.1
Rich customers who buy expensive goods, or the business that sells to them
- Archaic
A large white dog with black or brown spots that used to run beside carriages
- Archaic
A platform that holds a gun so it can fire over a low wall like on a fort or ship
- Archaic
A carriage at the end of a moving train released to stop at a station while the train keeps going
- Archaic
The part of a typewriter that holds and moves the paper while you type
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Carriage originally meant something that 'carries', like a small vehicle, and engineers began to call the moving support in a machine a carriage because it 'carries' the paper or part. That's why in machines a carriage is the piece that supports and moves another component.