truck
1any of various forms of vehicle for carrying goods and materials, usually consisting of a single self-propelled unit but also often composed of a trailer vehicle hauled by a tractor unit.
any of various wheeled frames used for transporting heavy objects.
Also called hand truck. a barrowlike frame with low wheels, a ledge at the bottom, and handles at the top, used to move heavy luggage, packages, cartons, etc.
a low, rectangular frame on which heavy boxes, crates, trunks, etc., are moved; a dolly.
a tiered framework on casters.
a group of two or more pairs of wheels in one frame, for supporting one end of a railroad car, locomotive, etc.
Movies. a dolly on which a camera is mounted.
British. a freight car having no top.
a small wooden wheel, cylinder, or roller, as on certain old-style gun carriages.
Nautical. a circular or square piece of wood fixed on the head of a mast or the top of a flagstaff, usually containing small holes for signal halyards.
to convey articles or goods on a truck.
to drive a truck.
Movies. dolly (def. 12).
of, relating to, or for a truck or trucks: a truck drive; truck tires.
Origin of truck
1Other words from truck
- truck·a·ble, adjective
Words Nearby truck
Other definitions for truck (2 of 3)
vegetables raised for the market.
miscellaneous articles of little worth; odds and ends.
Informal. trash or rubbish: That's a lot of truck.
Informal. dealings: I'll have no truck with him.
a bargain or deal.
the payment of wages in goods instead of money.
to exchange commodities; barter.
to traffic; have dealings.
Origin of truck
2Other definitions for truck (3 of 3)
a shuffling jitterbug step.
to dance with such steps.
Slang. to walk or stroll, especially in a jaunty manner: trucking down the avenue on a Sunday afternoon.
Origin of truck
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How to use truck in a sentence
Mail-carrying trucks are no longer being sent out empty, and everything is slowly getting back to normal.
Info About Local Post Office Operations Is Conflicting and Hard to Come By | Ashly McGlone and Kate Nucci | August 27, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoUsually, workers would go into overtime if the next day’s mail wasn’t fully sorted for the trucks, Cowan said.
Info About Local Post Office Operations Is Conflicting and Hard to Come By | Ashly McGlone and Kate Nucci | August 27, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoEarth’s deep stores of water may have been locally sourced rather than trucked in from far-flung regions of the solar system.
Earth’s building blocks may have had far more water than previously thought | Christopher Crockett | August 27, 2020 | Science NewsWaymo hasn’t yet said how long the testing phase will last, or when it thinks its trucks will start operating fully autonomously.
Waymo Just Started Testing Its Driverless Trucks in Texas | Vanessa Bates Ramirez | August 27, 2020 | Singularity HubThen they put their gas masks on and let gas into the back of truck.
Instead, the man and woman in the truck wanted to know where the crash site was and whether would I show them.
The 7-Year-Old Plane Crash Survivor’s Brutal Journey Through the Woods | James Higdon | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEAST“When Tanveer realized what was happening, he jumped out of the truck, but the Iranians shot him,” Abdullah says.
The Dangerous Drug-Funded Secret War Between Iran and Pakistan | Umar Farooq | December 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTEach well requires 1,500—2,000 truck trips over the lifetime of the well.
A fire truck roars down a city street and people cheer its arrival.
The Wildly Peaceful, Human, Almost Boring, Ultimately Great New York City Protests for Eric Garner | Mike Barnicle | December 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe system is truck-mounted and road-mobile, as are the big and conspicuous radars that stood next to it on display.
How China Will Track—and Kill—America’s Newest Stealth Jets | Bill Sweetman | December 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt wur Tom Wurmsee led me; I wuz gwine ter move his truck fur him this arternoon.
Ramona | Helen Hunt JacksonAs long as an emergency truck could squeeze through at moderate speed, that was enough.
Fee of the Frontier | Horace Brown FyfeDis whole job is a pipe, wit' us havin' a Monitor gun to open dat armored truck.
He saw that the back door of the armored truck was opening and another guard was getting out.
He put all his doctor truck into his gasoline wagon last night and choo-chooed outen town.
Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher | Eleanor Gates
British Dictionary definitions for truck (1 of 2)
/ (trʌk) /
British a vehicle for carrying freight on a railway; wagon
US, Canadian and Australian a large motor vehicle designed to carry heavy loads, esp one with a flat platform: Also called (esp in Britain): lorry
a frame carrying two or more pairs of wheels and usually springs and brakes, attached under an end of a railway coach, etc
nautical
a disc-shaped block fixed to the head of a mast having sheave holes for receiving signal halyards
the head of a mast itself
any wheeled vehicle used to move goods
to convey (goods) in a truck
(intr) mainly US and Canadian to drive a truck
Origin of truck
1British Dictionary definitions for truck (2 of 2)
/ (trʌk) /
commercial goods
dealings (esp in the phrase have no truck with)
commercial exchange
archaic payment of wages in kind
miscellaneous articles
informal rubbish
US and Canadian vegetables grown for market
archaic to exchange (goods); barter
(intr) to traffic or negotiate
Origin of truck
2Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with truck
see have no truck with.
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