Truck
A
truck is a wheeled vehicle for transporting goods.
The term is most commonly used in American English and Australian
English to refer to what earlier was called a motor, and in British
English is often called a lorry or, for bigger vehicles, a Heavy
Goods Vehicle (HGV). This type is a motor vehicle designed to carry
goods, with a cab and a tray or compartment for carrying goods.
In Australia
and New Zealand a small truck with an open tray is called a "ute"
(utility vehicle).
"Pantechnicon"
is a British word for a furniture removal van that has now fallen
out of usage. It was originally coined in 1830 as the name of craft
shop or bazaar, in Motcomb Street in Belgravia, London. The shop
soon closed down and the building was turned into furniture warehouse,
but the name was kept. Vehicles transporting furniture to and from
the building, known as pantechnicon vans, soon came to be known
simply as pantechnicons.
The
biggest ever truck is the Leibherr T 282B.
For larger vehicles,
see semi-trailer trucks.
For smaller
vehicles, see pickup trucks.
A
hand is a small human powered. It consists of a metal plate attached
to metal tubing and two large wheels. The metal tubing is bent to
form a long handle, so as to provide good mechanical advantage.
The metal plate is slipped under large heavy truck
objects, and the and object are tilted backward until the weight
is balanced over the large wheels, making otherwise bulky and heavy
objects easy to move.
A railroad is a movable platform on pairs of wheels which supports
one end of a railroad car; it is also called a bogie. The term is
also used for such a part on a skateboard.
Truck is also a (now little used) term meaning to barter or negotiate
exchange; it survives in such expressions as "farming"
and to have no truck with someone.
Related Words
DUKW, ESP, Pullman, Pullman car, answer, autotruck, baggage car,
baked goods, balance of trade, bargain, barge, barter, big business,
bloodmobile, boat, bookmobile, boxcar, bus, business, business dealings,
buy and sell, caboose, camion, camper, canned goods, car, carriage,
carryall, cart, chair car, change, clamjamfry, coach, coal car,
commerce, commercial affairs, commercial relations, commodities,
communication, communion, congress, connection, contact, conversation,
converse, correspondence, covered waggon, day coach, deal, dealing,
dealings, debris, delivery, diner, dinghy, dining car, do business,
dolly, drawing room, dray, duck, dump, dust, exchange, fair trade,
ferry, flat, flatcar, float, food items, free trade, freighter,
give in exchange, gondola, goods, green goods, groceries, grocery,
handle, haul, have truck with, horse-trade, industry, information,
interaction, interchange, intercommunication, intercommunion, intercourse,
interplay, junk, lighter, linguistic intercourse, litter, local,
lorry, luggage van, lumber, mail car, mail van, market, marketing,
mercantile business, merchandise, merchantry, message, motor truck,
moving van, multilateral trade, odds and ends, packaged goods, palace
car, panel, parlor car, passenger car, peddle, pickup, produce,
raff, raft, railroad truck, railway car, reciprocal trade, reefer,
refrigerator car, refrigerator, reply, response, restraint of trade,
retail, riffraff, roomette, rubbish, rubble, scrap, sedan delivery
truck, semi, semitrailer, ship, shoddy, six-by-six, sled, sledge,
sleeper, small business, smoker, smoking car, social intercourse,
social relations, speaking, speech, speech circuit, speech situation,
stake truck, stock, stockcar, stuff, sundries, swap, swap horses,
switch, take in exchange, talking, tank, telepathy, tender, the
business world, the marketplace, tinned goods, touch, tractor, tractor
trailer, tractor truck, trade, trade in, trade off, trade sight
unseen, traffic, trailer truck, transaction, transfer, trash, truck
trailer, two-way communication, unilateral trade, van, waggon, wagon,
wares, wheelbarrow More Related Words and Usage Samples truck
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