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What is the difference between cart and trolley ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between cart and trolley ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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I think they're the same in the UK.
In the USA a "cart" is any small hand wheeled thing used to carry stuff and a trolley is an old-fashioned street car on rails (pic).
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@chich_tieu_nham to be even more confusing, in the USA this is still called a cart. it might be called a "hand truck."
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@r1026 the 2nd picture that @janamaiuri posted (the one of a cart) is called a shopping cart
But apparently in the U.K. they call it a trolley
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well, maybe, I searched for it by google images =)))
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@Katharine96 yeah, streetcar or trolley.
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