Definitions for tram

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tram tram

Spelling: [tram]

IPA: /træm/

Tram is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in tram (amrt).

Definitions for tram

noun

1. British. a streetcar.
2. a tramway; tramroad.
3. Also called tramcar [tram-kahr] /ˈtræmˌkɑr/ (Show IPA). a truck or car on rails for carrying loads in a mine.
4. the vehicle or cage of an overhead carrier.
5. trammel (def 3).
6. silk that has been slightly or loosely twisted, used weftwise in weaving silk fabrics.

verb (used with object)

1. Machinery. to adjust (something) correctly.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to convey or travel by tram.

Origin of tram

1490-1500 for an earlier sense; 1820-30 for def 2; orig. shafts of a barrow or cart, rails for carts (in mines); perhaps Middle Dutch trame beam

Examples for tram

Luckily, public transport (the tram) is brilliantly efficient, cost-effective, and blissfully above ground.

She waved her hand to him as the tram drove off, and he waved his in reply.

I'll get it before we start home and I can be reading it over all the time on the tram.

Eva and Adele, the Art Couple, were on my tram, both in high-collared baby-pink dresses.

I waited for a second tram, but that was still more crowded.

I meant to go to the village, and walk up and take the tram.

Afterwards I took the tram to Posilipo and came home by boat.

The tram was already gliding away at some distance down the road.

There was the tram line, if m'sieur did not care to take a fiacre.

By day you'll be coerced to hike "the Peak" (I like the tram, thank you) for a quiet view of Kowloon.