Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A child's vehicle consisting of a long footboard between two small end wheels, controlled by an upright steering handle attached to the front wheel.
- noun A motor scooter.
- noun A flatbottom sailboat with runners that can skim over water or ice.
- noun A water scooter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
scoter . - noun An oblong plow, or cultivator shovel, from under 2½ to 5 inches wide, suited to break a furrow, and thus contrasted with a sweep or scrape; also a plow-stock fitted with such a blade; a scooter plow: used to break out the middle of cotton-beds, to mix fertilizer which has been deposited in furrows, etc.
- noun Same as
ice-scooter . - noun One who or that which scoots.
- noun A scoot; a squirt or syringe.
- To sail a scooter or ice-scooter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
kick scooter . - noun A small
motor -powered bicycle of similar design, alsomotor scooter . - noun A
mobility scooter , i.e. an electric-powered scooter specially designed for disabled and/or elderly people. - noun Any of the large, black
ducks of thegenus Melanitta ; thescoter . - noun A type of
ice yacht known at least in the state of New York, equipped withrunners for travelling overice . The body has a flat bottom and is capable of floating in the water which makes it safe to use also on thin ice. - verb To ride on a
scooter .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large black diving duck of northern parts of the northern hemisphere
- noun a sailing vessel with runners and a cross-shaped frame; suitable for traveling over ice
- noun child's two-wheeled vehicle operated by foot
- noun a wheeled vehicle with small wheels and a low-powered gasoline engine geared to the rear wheel
- noun a motorboat resembling a motor scooter
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Examples
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Side streets, because there are no houses on them are a uniform 50MPH posted (60MPH actual), so even an electric scooter is out and a Vespa is pushing the limit.
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However, this personal scooter is probably not up to par to the Segway in speed or ruggedness.
Toyota Announces Segway Killer: The Winglet Personal Transporter « Isegoria 2008
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A kick scooter or push scooter is a small platform with two or more wheels that is propelled by a rider pushing off the ground.
Hanemoku Kick Scooter Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models Michael James 2008
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The Piaggio MP3 is a tilting three-wheeled scooter from the Italian manufacturer Piaggio.
WN.com - Articles related to Ganesh utsav to be tobacco and alcohol free 2010
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The Piaggio MP3 is a tilting three-wheeled scooter from the Italian manufacturer Piaggio.
WN.com - Articles related to Ganesh utsav to be tobacco and alcohol free 2010
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I don’t think the scooter is going to get Daddy away from his TV and chairside commode.
HAROLD DERWIN BARNETT, 22 May 1925 - 16 October 2006 Maggie Jochild 2007
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Wooden Scooter Race: A Tribute to Filipino Ingenuity (also the source of the photo) – I wonder what that “secret” story is, which was the inspiration for naming the scooter Bangkiki.
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Instead of one person jumping in a car to run an errand that is a few miles away, we could book an electric scooter, that is, if a bike doesn't do the job.
Graham Hill: CarSharing 2.0: Give Us Many Transportation Options (Please!) 2009
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As my colleagues have openly stated, $9,000 is a lot of money for a scooter is a lot of money.
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No, you're a nerd for wishing your scooter was a transformer.
Transformers Viral: Giant Robots Sighted Around The World | /Film 2009
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