{
  "id": "cart.transport",
  "term": "cart",
  "sense": "transport",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 16,
  "arena": "concept",
  "domain": "everyday objects",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a container on wheels that is used to carry items",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "wheel.tool",
      "box.container",
      "carrying.transporting",
      "container.object",
      "items.object",
      "use.application"
    ],
    "interaction": "the wheels move and the container holds items so the whole can be moved",
    "novel_properties": [
      "portable carrying capacity",
      "controlled mobility",
      "load retention during motion"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Mars Rover Perseverance transported rock samples in its internal sample cache container across Jezero Crater.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Walmart shopping carts moved customer purchases from aisles to checkout lanes in 4,700 U.S. stores in 2023.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "A wooden mine cart carried 800 pounds of coal through a 19th-century Pennsylvania colliery.",
      "domain": "history"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "device.tool",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "items.object",
      "note": "medium-for",
      "type": "medium-for"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "cart",
    "carts"
  ],
  "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": "The definition was correct but underspecified in components. Added constitutive concepts that the definition implicitly relies on: carrying.transporting, container.object, items.object, and use.applic"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-cart.transport"
}