kabelbaan — meaning in English
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English meaning
- gondola noun A long, narrow boat with a raised prow, traditionally rowed with a single oar, famously used on the canals of Venice.
Senses
kabelbaan is used for these senses in English:
- cable car A hanging carriage or car for transporting people or cargo.
- funicular A particular type of rail transit system which ascends a steep urban or mountain incline, having usually two cars sharing a single pair of tracks, with the cars linked by a moving cable and an arrangement of pulleys such that the descending car assists in the hoisting of the ascending car, i.e. the two cars serve as counterweights for each other.
- gondola An enclosed car attached to a cable mechanically lifted up the side of a mountain; an enclosed ski lift; a cable car.
gondola — full definition
- noun A long, narrow boat with a raised prow, traditionally rowed with a single oar, famously used on the canals of Venice.
- noun An enclosed cabin or car that carries people up a mountain or ski slope on a cable.
- noun A freestanding shelving unit used to display goods in a supermarket or shop.