Truck

Noun

 * 1) A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun-carriage
 * 2) The ball on top of a flagpole
 * 3)  On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout. "Main" refers to the mainmast, whereas a truck on another mast may be called (on the mizzenmast, for example) "mizzen-truck".
 * 4) 🇺🇸 A semi-tractor ("semi") trailer;  a lorry
 * 5) Any motor vehicle designed for carrying cargo, including delivery vans, pickups, and other motorized vehicles (including passenger autos) fitted with a bed designed to carry goods
 * 6) A garden cart, a two-wheeled wheelbarrow
 * 7) A small wagon or cart, of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or  pulled by an animal, as with those in hotels for moving luggage, or in libraries for transporting books
 * 8) A pantechnicon (removal van)
 * 9)  A flatbed railway car
 * 10) A pivoting frame, one attached to the bottom of the bed of a railway car at each end, that rests on the axle and which swivels to allow the axle (at each end of which is a solid wheel) to turn with curves in the track. The axle on many types of railway car is not attached to the truck and relies on gravity to remain within the truck's brackets (on the truck's base) that hold the axle in place
 * 11) The part of a skateboard that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of a hanger, baseplate, kingpin, and bushings, and sometimes mounted with a riser in between.
 * 12) (theatre) A platform with wheels or casters
 * 13) dirt or other messiness
 * 14) 🇺🇸 Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden)
 * 15) with negative Social intercourse; dealings, relationships
 * 16)  (often used in plural sense) Small, humble items; things, often for sale or barter

Verb

 * 1)  To drive a truck
 * 2)  To convey by truck
 * 3)  To travel or live contentedly
 * 4)  To persist, to endure
 * 5)  To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject
 * 6)   To run over or through a tackler in American football
 * 7)  To trade, exchange; barter
 * 8)  To engage in commerce; to barter or deal
 * 9)  To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with

Adjective

 * 1) Pertaining to a garden patch or truck garden

Thesaurus
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 truck, parlor car, passenger car, peddle, pickup, produce, raff, raft, railroad truck, railway car, reciprocal trade, reefer, refrigerator car, refrigerator truck, 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, 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 truck, diner, dinghy, dining car, do business, dolly, drawing room, dray, duck, dump truck, dust, exchange, fair trade, ferry, flat,

Pronunciation




Etymology 1
Perhaps a shortening of truckle:, related to trochus:.

Etymology 2
trukien:, from unrecorded and  words (attested in mediaeval Latin trocare:, present Spanish trocar:), of  origin.

Derived terms

 * hand truck
 * monster truck
 * pick-up truck


 * pickup truck
 * sound truck
 * tow truck
 * truck stop, truckstop
 * truck-wheels

Derived terms

 * trucker
 * trucking
 * have no truck with
 * truck garden

Noun

 * Finnish:


 * Swedish: flaggstångsknopp, knopp


 * Finnish: märssy


 * Catalan: camió


 * Finnish: rekka


 * Afrikaans: vragmotor
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: (beṙnatar)
 * Bengali: লরি, ট্রাক
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: camió
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 卡車,, 貨車, 货车
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: lastbil, truck
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: veoauto
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: სატვირთო მანქანა (satvirt‘o mank‘ana)
 * German: Lastauto, Laster, Lastkraftwagen , LKW , Lastwagen , Lieferwagen
 * Greek: φορτηγό, φορτάμαξα
 * Greenlandic: biili nioqqutissanik assartuut
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ट्रक (ṭrak)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: flutningsbíll
 * Ido: kamiono
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, 貨物自動車


 * Korean: 트럭 (teureok)
 * Latvian: kravas automašīna
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: trakk
 * Maori: taraka
 * Marathi: ट्रक
 * Mongolian: ачааны машин
 * Navajo:
 * Old English: hlæstƿæȝn
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਟਰੱਕ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, small truck, pickup
 * Swedish: lastbil (lorry), lastvagn (technical term), dragbil (tractor), kärra (cart)
 * Taos: tròki’ína
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: אויטאָ (oyto)


 * Finnish: kaksipyöräinen kottikärry


 * Finnish: muuttoauto


 * Finnish: tavaravaunu


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: sotku

Verb

 * Danish: køre en lastbil
 * French: conduire un camion


 * Greek: οδηγώ φορτηγό
 * Italian: guidare un autocarro, guidare un camion

Noun

 * 1) truck