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TRUCK

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

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

Synonyms:

hand truck; truck

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An automotive vehicle suitable for hauling

Synonyms:

motortruck; truck

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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"):

roof (protective covering on top of a motor vehicle)

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)

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

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

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)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Convey (goods etc.) by truck

Example:

truck fresh vegetables across the mountains

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

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)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Because of testing inefficiencies, maintenance inadequacies and other factors, cars, trucks and buses worldwide emit 4.6 million tons more harmful nitrogen oxide (NOx) than standards allow.

(Diesel Pollutes More Than Lab Tests Detect, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

She had ingots of silver along her yards and bowsprit, and a bit of silver plate at the truck of the masts.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From the deck to the truck of the maintopmast is something over a hundred feet, while the foremast with its topmast is eight or ten feet shorter.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The size can vary from that of a small thermos bottle up to that which may be mounted upon a large truck (also known as a 'cryogenic truck').

(Dewar, NCI Thesaurus)

The SJSU researchers mounted Doppler LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging, a remote-sensing method that uses light in the form of a pulsed laser to measure distances) instruments onto a pickup truck, which they placed near wildfires.

(Researchers discover how wildfires create their own weather, National Science Foundation)

Clerks in the express office took charge of him; he was carted about in another wagon; a truck carried him, with an assortment of boxes and parcels, upon a ferry steamer; he was trucked off the steamer into a great railway depot, and finally he was deposited in an express car.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

With that she rushed across the street so impetuously that she narrowly escaped annihilation from a passing truck, and precipitated herself into the arms of a stately old gentleman, who said, I beg pardon, ma'am, and looked mortally offended.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The streets were crowded with perils—waggons, carts, automobiles; great, straining horses pulling huge trucks; and monstrous cable and electric cars hooting and clanging through the midst, screeching their insistent menace after the manner of the lynxes he had known in the northern woods.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

So fast and so well did he work that by the time the mice began to arrive the truck was all ready for them.

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

Earlier this year Tesla’s founder Elon Musk announced that a new long-haul truck would be revealed in September but did not mention plans to make it self-driving.

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