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I think I conflated them because they are synonymous :^) From Google: Definition of "car": a road vehicle, typically with four wheels, powered by an internal
by superqd 8y ago
I think I conflated them because they are synonymous :^) From Google:
Definition of "car": a road vehicle, typically with four wheels, powered by an internal combustion engine and able to carry a small number of people.
Definition of "automobile": a road vehicle, typically with four wheels, powered by an internal combustion engine and able to carry a small number of people.
- notus 8y agoPopular usage has made them synonymous but the original definition of car that is being used here is not synonymous. Note there are elevator cars, train cars, etc. None of them are road vehicles with four wheels. A car is basically just a cart. Examples of this are words like decimate and awful where there is semantic drift.