TRUCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does truck mean? 

• TRUCK (noun)
  The noun TRUCK has 2 senses:

1. an automotive vehicle suitable for hauling

2. a handcart that has a frame with two low wheels and a ledge at the bottom and handles at the top; used to move crates or other heavy objects

  Familiarity information: TRUCK used as a noun is rare.

• TRUCK (verb)
  The verb TRUCK has 1 sense:

1. convey (goods etc.) by truck

  Familiarity information: TRUCK used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRUCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An automotive vehicle suitable for hauling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

motortruck; truck

Hypernyms ("truck" is a kind of...):

automotive vehicle; motor vehicle (a self-propelled wheeled vehicle that does not run on rails)

Meronyms (parts of "truck"):

bumper (a mechanical device consisting of bars at either end of a vehicle to absorb shock and prevent serious damage)

tailboard; tailgate (a gate at the rear of a vehicle; can be lowered for loading)

anti-sway bar; stabilizer bar (a rigid metal bar between the front suspensions and between the rear suspensions of cars and trucks; serves to stabilize the chassis)

roof (protective covering on top of a motor vehicle)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "truck"):

dump truck; dumper; tip truck; tipper; tipper lorry; tipper truck (truck whose contents can be emptied without handling; the front end of the platform can be pneumatically raised so that the load is discharged by gravity)

fire engine; fire truck (any of various large trucks that carry firemen and equipment to the site of a fire)

dustcart; garbage truck (a truck for collecting domestic refuse)

camion; lorry (a large truck designed to carry heavy loads; usually without sides)

pickup; pickup truck (a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard)

sound truck (a truck equipped with a loudspeaker and used for advertising)

tow car; tow truck; wrecker (a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones))

tractor (a truck that has a cab but no body; used for pulling large trailers or vans)

articulated lorry; rig; semi; tractor trailer; trailer truck; trucking rig (a truck consisting of a tractor and trailer together)

car transporter; transporter (a long truck for carrying motor vehicles)

van (a truck with an enclosed cargo space)

Derivation:

truck (convey (goods etc.) by truck)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A handcart that has a frame with two low wheels and a ledge at the bottom and handles at the top; used to move crates or other heavy objects

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

hand truck; truck

Hypernyms ("truck" is a kind of...):

cart; go-cart; handcart; pushcart (wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels)

• TRUCK (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they truck    ... he / she / it trucks   
Past simple: trucked   
Past participle: trucked   
-ing form: trucking   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Convey (goods etc.) by truck

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

truck fresh vegetables across the mountains

Hypernyms (to "truck" is one way to...):

transport (move something or somebody around; usually over long distances)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

truck (an automotive vehicle suitable for hauling)

truckage (the activity of transporting goods by truck)

trucker (someone who drives a truck as an occupation)

trucking (the activity of transporting goods by truck)

 Context examples 

After a great deal of hard work, for the Lion was heavy, they managed to get him up on the truck.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Algae store energy in the form of natural oils and, under the right conditions, make oil that can be converted into biofuels for cars, trucks, trains and planes.

(Scientists discover key factors in how some algae harness solar energy, National Science Foundation)

He go there and soon he come again, himself driving cart on which a great box; this he himself lift down, though it take several to put it on truck for the ship.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

You have had no great truck with the world, she said, or you would have learned that it is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

CO is found in combustion fumes, such as those made by cars and trucks, lanterns, stoves, gas ranges and heating systems.

(Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Monday morning, Joe groaned over the first truck load of clothes to the washer.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The company is reportedly also in contact with Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles about the possibility of testing the truck on the state’s roads.

(Tesla to Test Self-driving Electric Trucks, VOA News)

He came aboard with a black coat, and his papers right, and money enough in his box to buy the thing right up from keel to main-truck.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The HISPANIOLA, in that unbroken mirror, was exactly portrayed from the truck to the waterline, the Jolly Roger hanging from her peak.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The puffy outer dust structure is like a donut-shaped inner tube that got hit by a truck.

(Hubble Finds Huge System of Dusty Material Enveloping the Young Star HR 4796A, NASA)