Carriage vs. Tonga — What's the Difference?

A carriage is a private four-wheeled vehicle for people and is most commonly horse-drawn. Second-hand private carriages were common public transport, the equivalent of modern cars used as taxis.

Tonga (, Tongan: [ˈtoŋa]), officially named the Kingdom of Tonga (Tongan: Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga), is a Polynesian country, and also an archipelago comprising 169 islands, of which 36 are inhabited. The archipelago's total surface area is about 750 square kilometres (290 sq mi) scattered over 700,000 square kilometres (270,000 sq mi) of the southern Pacific Ocean.

A wheeled vehicle, especially a four-wheeled horse-drawn passenger vehicle, often of an elegant design.

A member of any of three peoples of southern Africa, living mainly in Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique respectively.

Chiefly British A railroad passenger car.

Any of the three different Bantu languages spoken by the Tonga.

A baby carriage.

A country in the South Pacific consisting of an island group south-east of Fiji; population 106,000 (estimated 2015); official languages, Tongan and English; capital, Nuku'alofa.

A wheeled support or frame for carrying a heavy object, such as a cannon.

Relating to the Tonga or their languages.

A moving part of a machine for holding or shifting another part

(India) A light, two-wheeled, horse-drawn carriage used for transportation in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

The act or process of transporting or carrying.

(medicine) A drug useful in neuralgia, derived from a Fijian plant supposed to be of the aroid genus Epipremnum.

(kărē-ĭj) The cost of or the charge for transporting.

A drug useful in neuralgia, derived from a Fijian plant supposed to be of the aroid genus Epipremnum.

The manner of holding and moving one's head and body; bearing.

A kind of light two-wheeled vehicle, usually for four persons, drawn by ponies or bullocks.

(Archaic) Management; administration.

A monarchy on a Polynesian archipelago in the South Pacific; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1970

The act of conveying; carrying.

The language of the Tonga people of south central Africa (Zambia and Rhodesia)

Means of conveyance.

A (mostly four-wheeled) lighter vehicle chiefly designed to transport people, generally drawn by horse power.

A railroad car

The manner or posture in which one holds or positions a body part, such as one's arm or head.

A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself, bearing, gait.

(archaic) One's behaviour, or way of conducting oneself towards others.

The part of a typewriter supporting the paper.

A shopping cart.

(British) A stroller; a baby carriage.

The charge made for conveying (especially in the phrases carriage forward, when the charge is to be paid by the receiver, and carriage paid).

(archaic) That which is carried, baggage

That which is carried; burden; baggage.

The act of carrying, transporting, or conveying.

The price or expense of carrying.

That which carries of conveys,

The manner of carrying one's self; behavior; bearing; deportment; personal manners.

The act or manner of conducting measures or projects; management.

A railcar where passengers ride

A vehicle with four wheels drawn by two or more horses

Characteristic way of bearing one's body;

A machine part that carries something else

A small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around