SCOOTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scooter mean? 

• SCOOTER (noun)
  The noun SCOOTER has 5 senses:

1. a motorboat resembling a motor scooter

2. child's two-wheeled vehicle operated by foot

3. a wheeled vehicle with small wheels and a low-powered gasoline engine geared to the rear wheel

4. a sailing vessel with runners and a cross-shaped frame; suitable for traveling over ice

5. large black diving duck of northern parts of the northern hemisphere

  Familiarity information: SCOOTER used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCOOTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A motorboat resembling a motor scooter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

scooter; sea scooter; water scooter

Hypernyms ("scooter" is a kind of...):

motorboat; powerboat (a boat propelled by an internal-combustion engine)

Derivation:

scoot (run or move very quickly or hastily)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Child's two-wheeled vehicle operated by foot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("scooter" is a kind of...):

wheeled vehicle (a vehicle that moves on wheels and usually has a container for transporting things or people)

Derivation:

scoot (run or move very quickly or hastily)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A wheeled vehicle with small wheels and a low-powered gasoline engine geared to the rear wheel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

motor scooter; scooter

Hypernyms ("scooter" is a kind of...):

wheeled vehicle (a vehicle that moves on wheels and usually has a container for transporting things or people)

Derivation:

scoot (run or move very quickly or hastily)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A sailing vessel with runners and a cross-shaped frame; suitable for traveling over ice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

ice yacht; iceboat; scooter

Hypernyms ("scooter" is a kind of...):

vessel; watercraft (a craft designed for water transportation)

Derivation:

scoot (run or move very quickly or hastily)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Large black diving duck of northern parts of the northern hemisphere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

scooter; scoter

Hypernyms ("scooter" is a kind of...):

sea duck (any of various large diving ducks found along the seacoast: eider; scoter; merganser)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scooter"):

common scoter; Melanitta nigra (a variety of scoter)

Holonyms ("scooter" is a member of...):

genus Melanitta; Melanitta (scoters)

 Context examples 

They include: • Crutches • Canes • Walkers • Wheelchairs • Motorized scooters

(Mobility Aids, NIH)

Close to half of children in the study took part in sport every day, and a similar proportion actively commuted to school, travelling on foot, by bicycle or scooter.

(Children who walk to school less likely to be overweight or obese, study suggests, University of Cambridge)

Human-made sounds can be everything from spinning wind turbines and ship traffic to water scooters and drilling platforms.

(Marine Birds Can Hear Under Water, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In large cities, the proliferation of PMDs, including electric scooters, demonstrates that existing infrastructures are not yet equipped to deal with such vehicles.

(Scientists design “smart” asphalts with magnetic materials for safer electric scooters, University of Granada)

Examples are a cane, wheelchair, scooter, walker, hearing aid, or special bed.

(Assistive device, NCI Dictionary)

You may need a wheelchair or a scooter if an injury or disease has left you unable to walk.

(Mobility Aids, NIH)

Now, with this current research, they have developed a further novel application that would address the major problem of widespread electric-scooter use in cities.

(Scientists design “smart” asphalts with magnetic materials for safer electric scooters, University of Granada)

One such project focuses on developing encoded roads, whereby different amounts of metallic material are aggregated beneath roads, pavements, and pedestrian crossings, among other areas of the city, so that a code can be generated to identify and link specific working instructions with PMDs (electric scooters) and their users.

(Scientists design “smart” asphalts with magnetic materials for safer electric scooters, University of Granada)

This study, which is part of the wider smart cities research field, would enable roads to signal to scooters when to slow down, for example, or could automatically cut off the electric motor or engine in case of danger.

(Scientists design “smart” asphalts with magnetic materials for safer electric scooters, University of Granada)

This work—part of the wider research field of smart cities—would enable roads to signal to scooters when to slow down, for example, or could automatically cut off the electric motor or engine in case of danger.

(Scientists design “smart” asphalts with magnetic materials for safer electric scooters, University of Granada)