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chassis

UK/ˈt͡ʃæ.si/US/ˈt͡ʃæ.si/
nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,737 of 15,258mostly written

A chassis is the frame everything else in a vehicle is bolted to. A steel chassis, a chassis number, the chassis flexed.

Most modern cars have no separate one — the body and frame are welded into a single shell — but lorries and off-road vehicles keep a real chassis for strength. The word is the same in the singular and the plural, and the final s is silent.

HumanisticRationale at English Wikipedia · CC BY 3.0

Definitions of chassis

  1. 1nounchassisThe frame everything else in a vehicle is bolted to.B2+

    “The car's body was badly damaged, but the chassis underneath was still straight.”

chassis is a frame.

Where it comes from

French chassis means a frame, from chasse, a case, from Latin capsa, a box. Case and chase are relatives.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *kap-

  2. Latin

    capsa — case

  3. French

    châssis

  4. English, today

    chassis

French châssis, from châsse, from Latin capsa (“case”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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chassis in the wild

  • The product range includes complete buses and coaches as well as chassis combined with a comprehensive range of services.

    Volvo Buses

  • Sold in both retail and commercial markets, the E-Series has been offered as passenger and cargo vans, as well as in cutaway and stripped-chassis configurations.

    Ford E-Series

  • The E-Series continues to be offered only in cutaway and stripped-chassis configurations.

    Ford E-Series

  • Also, since 2017, GM has sourced commercial cutaway-chassis production from Navistar through its Springfield Assembly Plant (Springfield, Ohio).

    Chevrolet Express

  • The F-250 through F-450 are offered as pickup trucks, while the F-350 through F-600 are offered as chassis cabs.

    Ford Super Duty

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the capsa family

cash

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