Ambulance
['æmbjʊl(ə)ns] or ['æmbjələns]
Definition
(n.) A field hospital, so organized as to follow an army in its movements, and intended to succor the wounded as soon as possible. Often used adjectively; as, an ambulance wagon; ambulance stretcher; ambulance corps.
(n.) An ambulance wagon or cart for conveying the wounded from the field, or to a hospital.
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Definition
n. a carriage which follows an army and serves as a movable hospital for the wounded—also used as an adj. as in ambulance wagon.—n. Ambulan′cier a man attached to an ambulance.—adj. Am′bulant walking: moving from place to place: (rare) unfixed.—v.t. and v.i. Am′bulate (rare) to walk.—p.adj. Am′bulating.—n. Ambulā′tion.—adj. Am′bulatory having the power or faculty of walking: moving from place to place not stationary: mutable.—n. any part of a building intended for walking in as the aisles of a church or the cloisters of a monastery: any kind of corridor.
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Examples
- An ambulance took me to the American hospital. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Not in this ambulance business. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I opened the back door of the ambulance. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The British had come with three ambulances and they had two men on each ambulance. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Not in the auto-ambulance, in the infantry. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Then an ambulance. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- On a narrow street we passed a British Red Cross ambulance. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I furnished an ambulance for his use and that of some of the State officers who accompanied him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Yes, even in the ambulance business. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- British ambulance drivers were killed sometimes. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- We returned to the little hospital in the ambulance and after a while and much lifting I was upstairs and in bed again. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I'm sending you now with the English ambulance. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- After a while the English ambulance came up and they put me onto a stretcher and lifted the stretcher up to the ambulance level and shoved it in. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Some American ambulance units were to be sent down and this hospital would look after them and any other Americans on service in Italy. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- It's only the ambulance. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Bonello turned off and followed him and then Piani worked his way out and we followed the two ambulances ahead along the narrow road between hedges. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- It was none of my business; all I had to do was to get to Pordenone with three ambulances. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The British had come with three ambulances and they had two men on each ambulance. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- We passed two British ambulances, abandoned in the block of vehicles. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- She was not in the garden and I went to the side door of the villa where the ambulances drove up. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- They were top-heavy, blunt-nosed ambulances, painted gray and built like moving-vans. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Mark for ambulances. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The roads have now become so impassable that ambulances with wounded men can no longer run between here and Fredericksburg. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The girls were awake and looking at the courtyard, the well and the two big ambulances in front of the farmhouse, with three drivers at the well. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
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