{
  "id": "car.transport",
  "term": "car",
  "sense": "transport",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 16,
  "arena": "car.vehicle",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a device that carries people or goods through space by moving on wheels using energy",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "device.tool",
      "machine.constructed-system",
      "energy.capacity",
      "carrying.transporting",
      "motion.movement",
      "people.social",
      "space.extent",
      "wheel.tool",
      "good.moral",
      "use.application"
    ],
    "interaction": "the arranged parts powered by energy move through space to transport people or goods",
    "novel_properties": [
      "controlled mechanical transport",
      "integrated energy-driven motion",
      "mobile carrying capacity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2023 Tesla Model Y uses electric energy to carry five people across California highways on rubber wheels.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "A Ford F-150 transported relief supplies through flooded Louisiana roads after Hurricane Ida in 2021.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Toyota Prius fleet in Japan moved over 15 million people annually by 2020, powered by hybrid energy systems.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "device.tool",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "machine.constructed-system",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "airport.transport",
    "auto.vehicle",
    "road.transport"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "car",
    "cars"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "Components good.moral and use.application were missing but are constitutive per definition's reliance; added to align record with definition. Definition factually retains original wording but was mark"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-car.transport"
}