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Definition: Truck |
TruckNoun1. 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. Verb1. Convey (goods etc.) by truck; "truck fresh vegetables across the mountains". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "truck" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Fine Arts | A photographic effect in which the camera is moved from one position of the set to another in order to change spatial relationship between the camera and the subject matter. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | Wheeled vehicle used for the transportation of loads or materials over short distances. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Any wheeled vehicle, usually self-propelled, used to transport heavy articles or materials. In mining, usually applied to dump and/or bottom-dump semitrailers used to transport mined waste and ore materials. The number of types of these haulage units varies widely from the small 2-st (1.8-t) standard dump truck to the unit with capacity 200 st (181 t) or greater. For larger stripping operations, where the haulage conditions are not too rugged, a diesel tractor pulling a bottom-dump semitrailer of capacity 40 to 60 st (36 to 54 t) is most common. The newer trucks are equipped with power steering, power brakes, torque converters, andautomatic transmissions. (references) |
Slang | Describing an object. Source: Aaron. Definition: A truck has two wheels, attached to a flat surface that you place products on. It also has a back piece that supports the weight of the product and a handle to make it easy to control while you are pushing or pulling it down the isles. Context: A truck is something that you put products on to make it easier to move the items from the backroom to the floor. Social Source: 29th and Willamette Price Chopper employees. . Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Slang in 1811 | TRUCK. To exchange, swop, or barter; also a wheel such as ship's guns are placed upon. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Sports & Leisure | A small circular piece of wood, capping the top of a mast. It is usually fitted with sheaves through which signal halyards or rove. Source: European Union. (references) |
Transportation | An assembly of parts consisting of wheels and axles with necessary springs and structural members that support the main body of a rail car at each end. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A pickup truck is a small truck with an open cargo area. Typically, trucks with a load capacity of one tonne or less are regarded as pickups. They are known in Australia as a "ute" or "utility" (abbreviated from "coupe utility") and in Israel as a "tender".The design details of such vehicles vary significantly, and different nationalities seem to specialise in different styles of vehicles. Typical North American pickups are large, heavy vehicles weighing upwards of 2500 kg (5000 pounds) and are fitted with exceedingly large, powerful V8 gasoline and diesel engines. They feature a separate chassis and body (as distinct from most modern passenger cars which use the body and its frame as the major structure in a design known as a unibody or monocoque).
Japanese-built pickup trucks, by contrast, are considerably smaller, lighter, and fitted with smaller four or six-cylinder engines. Such vehicles (exemplified by the Toyota Hilux) can be found around the world, unlike the US-built pickups which are regarded as too large and fuel-inefficient by most other markets. Small pickups have much lower cargo and towing capacity, while large capacity and power are the primary advertising points in America. Smaller pickups are also common in America. Since about 2001 hybrid SUV/pickups have appeared, which are similar to an SUV except that the 3rd row of seats (or enclosed cargo area) is replaced by a short open truck bed.
The two Australian-built utilities currently in production are rebodied versions of large passenger cars, as were the now out of production American Ford Ranchero and Chevrolet El Camino. Consequently, they are much lower-slung and more carlike both in appearance and performance than other pickups. Volkswagen and other European manufacturers have also introduced similar designs at one time or another, but they have not been popular and the designs were typically dropped after a few years.
Whilst pickups are commonly used by tradespeople the world over, they are popular as personal transport in Australia, the United States, and Canada, where they share some of the image of the SUV and are commonly criticised on similar grounds.
Many pickup trucks are capable of driving all four wheels, have aggressively-treaded tyres and high ground clearance, and thus have all-terrain capabilities similar to SUVs. SUVs developed from pickups with permanently attached cabs.
Pickup trucks have been used as troop carriers in many parts of the world, most notably in Somalia, Chad, and by the Taliban and Northern Alliance forces in Afghanistan. Pickup trucks have also been used as fighting vehicles: see Technical.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pickup truck."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A truck is a wheeled device for transporting goods.
The term is most commonly used in American English to refer to what earlier was called a motor truck, and in British English is often called a lorry. this type of truck 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 truck with an open tray is called a "ute".
"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.
For larger vehicles, see semi-trailer trucks. For smaller vehicles, see pickup trucks.
A hand truck is a small human powered truck. 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 objects, and the truck 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 truck is a movable platform on pairs of wheels which supports one end of a railroad car; it is also called a bogie.
Truck is also a (now little used) term meaning to barter or negotiate exchange; it survives in such expressions as "truck farming" and to have no truck with someone.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Truck."
Synonyms: TruckSynonyms: hand truck (n), motortruck (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: buggies (metallurgy), trucked (transportation). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Barter | Verb: barter, exchange, swap, swop, truck, scorse; interchange; commutate;Verb: barter, exchange, swap, swop, truck, scorse; interchange; commutate;(substitute); compound for. |
Noun: barter, exchange, scorse, truck system; interchange. | |
Insulation, Fire extinction | Extincteur; fire annihilator; amianth, amianthus; earth-flax, mountain-flax; asbestos; fireman, fire fighter, fire eater, fire department, fire brigade, engine company; pumper, fire truck, hook and ladder, aerial ladder, bucket; fire hose, fire hydrant. |
Summit | Tip, tip top; crest, crow's nest, cap, truck, nib; end; crown, brow; head, nob, noddle, pate; capsheaf. |
Vehicle | Truck, tram; cariole, carriole; limber, tumbrel, pontoon; barrow; wheel barrow, hand barrow; perambulator; Bath chair, wheel chair, sedan chair; chaise; palankeen, palanquin; litter, brancard, crate, hurdle, stretcher, ambulance; black Maria; conestoga wagon, conestoga wain; jinrikisha, ricksha, brett, dearborn, dump cart, hack, hackery, jigger, kittereen, mailstate, manomotor, rig, rockaway, prairie schooner, shay, sloven, team, tonga, wheel; hobbyhorse, go-cart; cycle; bicycle, bike, two-wheeler; tricycle, velocipede, quadricycle. |
Train; accommodation train, passenger train, express trail, special train, corridor train, parliamentary train, luggage train, freight train, goods train; st class train, nd class train, rd class train, st class carriage, nd class carriage, rd class carriage, st class compartment, nd class compartment, rd class compartment; rolling stock; horse box, cattle truck; baggage car, express car, freight car, parlor car, dining car, Pullman car, sleeping car, sleeper, dome car; surface car, tram car, trolley car; box car, box wagon; horse car; bullet train, shinkansen, cannonball, the Wabash cannonball, lightning express; luggage van; mail, mail car, mail van. | |
Motor car, automobile, limousine, car, auto, jalopy, clunker, lemon, flivver, coupe, sedan, two-door sedan, four-door sedan, luxury sedan; wheels, sports car, roadster, gran turismo, jeep, four-wheel drive vehicle, electric car, steamer; golf cart, electric wagon; taxicab, cab, taxicoach, checker cab, yellow cab; station wagon, family car; motorcycle, motor bike, side car; van, minivan, bus, minibus, microbus; truck, wagon, pick-up wagon, pick-up, tractor-trailer, road train, articulated vehicle; racing car, racer, hot rod, stock car, souped-up car. | |
Tractor, steamshovel, backhoe, fork lift, earth mover, dump truck, bulldozer, grader, caterpillar, trench digger, steamroller; pile driver; crane, wrecking crane. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | I've probably burned truck loads of your stuff before (Memento; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben) Last time you needed my help, I woke up in a truck. (Rush Hour 2; writing credit: Jeff Nathanson) You take your little sensitive ass up there and let me in. Get out of the way! Don't make me get up out of this truck! Man when I get up in there I'm slappin' somebody, I don't play that (Rush Hour; writing credit: Jim Kouf) Okay, let's make like a bread truck and haul buns ladies (A League of Their Own; writing credit: Kim Wilson; Kelly Candaele) You know, like on a head on crash or flying off a cliff or getting trapped under a gas truck! That's the worst (Dumb & Dumber; writing credit: Peter Farrelly; Bennett Yellin) | |
Lyrics | Have you ever seen the crocidile seats in the truck (Still Fly; performing artist: Big Tymers) But with the Rolling truck Stones thing just outside (Smoke on the Water; performing artist: Deep Purple) With a pink carnation and a pickup truck (American Pie; performing artist: Don McLean) Right next to a humungous truck in a two car garage (Forgot About Dre; performing artist: Dr. dre) Jumped up and climbed the back of a movin dump truck (Murder Murder (Remix) *; performing artist: Eminem) | |
Clever | You're trailer trash when the bluebook value of your truck goes up and down, depending on how much gas is in it. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | Hi-Tech Traveling Tractor Trailor Truck Tracker (references; author: unknown) Two Truckee truckers truculently truckling to have truck to truck two trucks of truck. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Truck Turner (1974) The Truck Farmer (1954) Truck Busters (1943) 4 Selections from Plimpton County's Tuff Truck Jamboree (2003) Truck and Tractor Pulls (2003) | |
Song Titles | Truck Drivin' Song (performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Worker sprays ditch to kill any mosquito larvae that might be present, Miami, Florida. Spray truck. Credit: CDC. |  | Truck mounted water supply purification equipment, used for flood and vector control in Laredo, Texas, 1954. Credit: CDC. |
 | Poling through the sand White 1 and 1/2 ton truck Astro party of C.V. Hodgson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Using canvas strip on sand hill White 1 and 1/2 ton truck Astro party of C.V. Hodgson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Fishermen use bridge while passing truck tows boat in search of better fishing. Credit: Fisheries. |  | A crane loads rock from the barge into a truck. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Another view of the crane loading rock into the truck. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Soil EC Mapping System using electrical conductivity to identify areas of contrasting soil property is being pulled behind truck through ag fields. Credit: Bob Nichols. |
 | Gordon Bowdler (left), NRCS Soil Conservation Technician, and farmer inspect corn crop. Sweet Corn is one the many truck crops grown on this farm. [Slide 97CS3122]. Credit: Bob Nichols. |  | milk truck near Fulton, MD. Credit: USDA. |
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| "Toy Truck" by Dan Willis Commentary: "Close up of a toy truck." | "Old Ford Truck" by Justin T. Martin Commentary: "Old Ford Truck." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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 | Police siren and fire truck horn. |
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Adam Smith | The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals. |
Jean Kerr | Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He swung the great truck viciously around a bend and the tires shrilled |
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Health | However, the same person may be able to hear clearly the low-pitched sound of a truck rumbling down the street. (references) | |
Circadian rhythms can be affected to some degree by almost any kind of external time cue, such as the beeping of your alarm clock, the clatter of a garbage truck, or the timing of your meals. (references) | ||
More than 20 million Americans are exposed on a regular basis to hazardous noise levels that could result in hearing loss. Occupational noise exposure, the most common cause of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL), threatens the hearing of firefighters, police officers, military personnel, construction and factory workers, musicians, farmers, and truck drivers, to name a few. Live or recorded high-volume music, recreational vehicles, airplanes, lawn-care equipment, woodworking tools, some household appliances, and chain saws are examples of nonoccupational sources of potentially hazardous noise. (references) | ||
Business | Mercedes has a truck assembly plant in the country. (references) | |
There is some limited manufacturing of truck and trailer bodies. (references) | ||
Electrical appliances in the U.S. made truck work on 6 or 12 Volts. (references) | ||
Children | Ethiopia | There have been many press reports of the large-scale employment of children, especially underage girls, as hotel workers, barmaids, and prostitutes in resort towns and rural truck stops. (references) |
Nicaragua | OAS personnel in the country also noted an increase in prostitution among girls as young as 10 years of age; in rural areas, their clients are often truck drivers and other travelers, including foreigners, who patronize prostitutes in towns along the Pan American Highway. (references) | |
Mozambique | In Sofala province, where child prostitution exists along the Beira development corridor (frequented by truck drivers and businessmen), the Government operates information centers in affected areas to provide information to families and friends of children who are raped and exploited, and counsels them on how to deal with the police, public prosecutors, and judges. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Kyrgyz Republic | For example, a truck carrying 53 Tajiks en route to Russia was stopped in Jalal-Abad Province and turned back. (references) |
Colombia | On May 21, police bomb disposal experts defused a bomb packed into a pick-up truck outside of the offices of Voz. (references) | |
Hong Kong | The meeting and one of the processions involved a request to conduct a container truck "slow drive" through the central business district to protest container-handling fees. (references) | |
Economic History | Brazil | Internal transportation is primarily by truck. (references) |
Mexico | General Motors operates a light truck assembly plant in Silao. (references) | |
Kenya | Japan and Europe dominate the auto and truck market in the country. (references) | |
Human Rights | Ghana | In October a police officer accused of killing a passenger in a truck in August 1999 was indicted. (references) |
Somalia | On June 2, a truck hit a mine in Saragoble, which exploded and killed one person and injured four others. (references) | |
Cameroon | The incident occurred at "Tropicana," a Yaounde neighborhood where truck drivers in transit park their vehicles. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Bangladesh | Police arrested 6 tribals in connection with the murder of the truck driver, and 15 others for arson. (references) |
Bangladesh | After their safe and peaceful release on March 17, one of the hostages told a newspaper reporter that one of his abductors had confided that the motive was not political but rather, they wanted money "for the welfare of Chakma people." On June 23, a Bengali truck driver in Khagrachhari District in the Chittagong Hill Tracts was murdered. (references) | |
Political Economy | CHILE | The automobile and light truck industry is the subject of trade-related investment measures. (references) |
Trade | El Salvador | For valuation of used cars, Customs uses N.A.D.A., Edmund's and the Truck Blue Book. (references) |
Russia | Free customs zones and free warehouses are located in customs areas (airports, seaports, railway and truck terminals) and, according to Decree 135, selected automobile factories. (references) | |
Qatar | Most of the goods imported into Qatar from the U.S. and elsewhere come via the nearby ports of Dubai and Sharjah, both in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.). Transshipment clauses serve the purpose of advancing those goods from the U.A.E. to Qatar by land (by truck) and/or sea (by barge). (references) | |
Travel | Costa Rica | All overland cargo, except bananas from the Pacific ports, is transported via truck. (references) |
Sri Lanka | Except for minor injuries in the October 1997 truck bombing, no U.S. citizens were killed or wounded in these incidents. (references) | |
Canada | A good highway system, with less emphasis on interstate roads, exists within 200 miles of the US border and supports extensive truck, bus and automobile traffic. (references) | |
Women | Nicaragua | In towns along the Pan American Highway, women and girls sell sexual services to truck drivers and other travelers, who are often foreigners driving north from Costa Rica. (references) |
Poland | However, due to a crackdown on prostitutes who work along major thoroughfares and at truck stops, the prostitution industry has moved to brothels, massage parlors, or agencies offering escort services. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Croatia | Women are transported through the country by truck or boat. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Dennis Miller | I don't own a pickup truck or a van, and frankly, people who do scare me. |
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Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | The Department of Transportation's new Small Community and Rural Transportation Policy will target federal assistance for passenger transportation, roads and highways, truck service, and railroad freight service to rural areas. |
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| "Truck" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Truck" is used about 1,178 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 1,178 | 6,555 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Canada | Western Star Truck Holdings Ltd. | Japan | Enshu Truck Co., Ltd. |
| USA | Oshkosh Truck Corporation | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "truck": aerial ladder truck ♦ agitating truck ♦ agitator truck ♦ Bissell truck ♦ breakdown truck ♦ cattle truck ♦ counterbalanced truck ♦ crane truck ♦ crash truck ♦ delivery truck ♦ derrick truck ♦ dump truck ♦ dumper truck ♦ dumping truck ♦ fire truck ♦ garbage truck ♦ garden truck ♦ goods truck ♦ hand truck ♦ have no truck with ♦ heavy truck ♦ High Mobility Truck ♦ hook and ladder truck ♦ Hose truck ♦ ladder truck ♦ laundry truck ♦ light truck ♦ mechanically refrigerated truck ♦ milk truck ♦ moto truck ♦ off highway truck ♦ pallet truck ♦ panel truck ♦ parrel truck ♦ petrol truck ♦ pickup truck ♦ platform truck ♦ pony truck ♦ refrigerated truck ♦ refrigerator truck ♦ sound truck ♦ spiel truck ♦ stacking truck ♦ tank truck ♦ tip truck ♦ tipper truck ♦ tow truck ♦ towing truck ♦ trailer truck ♦ truck and trailer ♦ truck bed ♦ truck bolster ♦ truck dealer ♦ truck driver ♦ truck excavator ♦ truck exit ♦ truck farm ♦ truck farming ♦ truck garden ♦ truck gardener ♦ truck gardening ♦ truck inventory and use survey ♦ truck shot ♦ truck stop ♦ truck system ♦ truck tractor ♦ truck traffic ♦ truck trailer ♦ truck type ♦ wrecking truck. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "truck": truck-belch, truck-cart, truck-driver, truck-drivers, truck-load, truck-loads, truck-makers, truck-making, truck-mounted, truck-sized, truck-stop, truck-tyre. | |
Ending with "truck": tow-truck. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
truck | 15,510 | truck camper | 1,327 |
truck accessory | 6,860 | ryder truck | 1,295 |
truck rental | 5,776 | truck tool box | 1,282 |
ford truck | 5,111 | truck tire | 1,184 |
used truck | 3,996 | toyota truck | 1,160 |
dodge truck | 3,464 | chevrolet truck | 1,126 |
truck trader | 3,054 | ford truck part | 1,049 |
truck part | 2,878 | truck driving job | 1,042 |
chevy truck | 2,836 | custom truck | 1,016 |
monster truck | 2,442 | truck bed cover | 962 |
fire truck | 2,137 | classic truck | 871 |
moving truck rental | 1,905 | truck bed liner | 855 |
gmc truck | 1,827 | big truck | 854 |
ryder truck rental | 1,809 | truck wheels | 852 |
moving truck | 1,688 | truck driving school | 846 |
truck sale | 1,567 | truck rim | 817 |
truck cap | 1,534 | international truck | 802 |
f 150 pickup truck | 1,439 | truck driver | 799 |
budget truck rental | 1,427 | truck price | 789 |
pickup truck | 1,393 | chevy truck part | 781 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "truck"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | vragmotor (lorry). (various references) | |
Albanian | tregti (business, commerce, market, sale, trade, trading, traffic), transportoj me kamion, vagon mallrash (freight car, lorry, lurry, Van, waggon, wagon), shkëmbim (barter, conversion, exchange, interchange, swap, swop), perime zarzavate, karrocë për bagazhet, karro e vogël me dy rrota, kamion (autotruck, camion, lorry, lurry, waggon, wagon), hedhurina (junk, mullock, offal, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, throw out), bëj shkëmbim. (various references) | |
Arabic | مقايضة (barter, bartering, exchange, swap), نقل بشاحنة, قايض (bargain away, barter, exchange, give in exchange, swap, trade, trade in), قاد شاحنة, تبادل (alternate, bandy, change, commutation, exchange, interchange, pass, reciprocate, reciprocation, reciprocity, swap), عربة نقل (pantechnicon, trolley), عربة العفش, الشاحنة, شحن (charge, forward, freight, freightage, haulage, load, pack), شاحنة (haulier, lorry), دولاب صغير (locker, truckle). (various references) | |
Basque | kamioi. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | iitawáí'pihtakio'p. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вагонетка (corf, lorry, lurry, tram, tram-road, trolley, waggon, wagon), дребна стока, платформа (dais, deck, decking, dray, flatcar, lorry, lurry, platform, pulpit), плащам в натура, превозвам с платформа, превозвам с камион, багажна количка (buggy), багажна талижка, занимавам се с градинарство, зеленчуци за продан, натоварвам (authorise, authorize, freight, load, saddle, weight, weight down), обмяна (exchange), отношения (dealings, intercourse, relations), давам в замяна, открита товарна платформа, стокообмен (visible trade), водя дребна търговия, връзки (intercourse, knot, neckwear, relations, ties), глупости (all my eye, applesauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blah, bleat, blether, boloney, bosh, bull, buncombe, cod, crap, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flapdoodle, footle, fudge, guff, gup, hokum, humbug, jiggery pokery, junk, kibosh, monkey business, monkeybusiness, nonsense, nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rhubarb, rot, rubbish, shucks, slush, stuff and nonsense, tack, tommy rot, trumpery), камион (autotruck, camion, lorry, lurry), карам камион, талига (cart), товарен автомобил, товаря на платформа, товаря на камион, ходова част, разменям (barter, change, chop, exchange, negotiate, pick up, swap, swop, trade, trade off), размяна (barter, exchange, interchange, swap, swop, trade off), отглеждам зеленчуци за продан. (various references) | |
Catalan | camió (lorry). (various references) | |
Chinese | 卡车 (Lorries, lorry), 卡車 . (various references) | |
Cornish | trok. (various references) | |
Czech | zboží (arrival, commodity, goods, merchandise, ware), vymìòovat zboží (barter), výmìna (change, exchange, renewal, replacement, reversal, shift, swap, switch), podvozek (carriage, chassis, landing gear, undercarriage), nákladní auto (lorry), kramařit (traffic), kamión (camion, lorry). (various references) | |
Danish | lastvogn (lorry). (various references) | |
Dutch | vrachtwagen (lorry), vrachtauto (lorry), truck (lorry). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kamiono (lorry), ŝarĝaŭto (lorry). (various references) | |
Farsi | معامله کردن (Chap, Deal, Transact), معامله خرده ریز, مبادله (Change, Exchange), چرخ باربری , کامیون , واگن روباز, سروکارداشتن با (Deal, Handle, Treat), بارکش (Transport, Wagon). (various references) | |
Finnish | vaunu (car, carriage, coach, goods waggon, railway carriage, waggon), trukki (trolley), kuorma-auto (lorry, motor van). (various references) | |
French | camion (moto truck), poids lourd. (various references) | |
Frisian | frachtwein (lorry), frachtauto (lorry). (various references) | |
German | Lastwagen (lorries, lorry, trucks, trucks US, van, vans), Lastkraftwagen (heavy goods vehicle, lorries, lorry, trucks US), LKW (lorry), Lore (dumper, lorry, tipper, waggon, wagon), Lastauto (lorry, panel truck, Van). (various references) | |
Greek | περιστρεφόμενο ικρίωμα (bogey, bogie, bogy), αμαξίδιο (carriage, trolley), ανοικτό φορτηγάκι, ανταλλάσω (bandy, swap, swop), λαχανικά (greens, vegetables), φορτηγό (lorry), φορτηγό μεγάλο, φορείο (litter, sedan, sedan chair, stretcher), αυτοκίνητο μεγάλο, περιστρεφόμενο πλαίσιο (bogey, bogie, bogy, rotating loop), κάρρο μεγάλο, μεταφορικό όχημα (carrier), μεταφέρω διά φορτηγού κάρρου, βαγονέτο Decauville (tub), βαγονέτο μεταφοράς (tub), όχημα φορείο (platform truck), όχημα με πλατφόρμα (platform truck), καροτσάκι (cart, pram, push cart, trolley, trundle), καρότσι (carriage, cart, trolley), περιστρεφόμενο υπόβαθρο (bogey, bogie, bogy). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משאית (lorry), קרון משא (cart). (various references) | |
Hungarian | teherautó (autotruck, lorry, van). (various references) | |
Indonesian | truk, gerobak (caisson, car, cart, van, wagon). (various references) | |
Italian | camion (camion, lorry, waggon, wagon), autocarro (lorry), carro (camion, car, carriage, cart, chariot, vehicle, waggon, wagon), vagone (car, carriage, coach, railway, railway carriage, waggon, wagon), carrello (bogie, caddie, carriage, Dolly, runner, trolley, under carriage, undercarriage). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 貨物自動車 , トロイヤ群 (toilette, tongs, ton-kilometer, Tonkin, Toronto, Trojan group, trolleybus, trombone, trompe-l'oeil, TRON, trophy, tropical, tropical drink, tropical fish, tropical fruits, tropical plant, trot, Trotskism, Trotskist, tunnel, tunnel diode, twilight, you and I), トラス橋 (track, tracking, tracking station, trackman, truck farm, truck terminal, trucking, truss bridge). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | トロッコ , トラック (track), かもつじどうしゃ. (various references) | |
Korean | 운반차. (various references) | |
Manx | truck, maylart (barter, exchange, variant). (various references) | |
Maori | taraka. (various references) | |
Norwegian | lastebil (lorry). (various references) | |
Occitan | camion. (various references) | |
Papago | tlohgih. (various references) | |
Papiamen | camion (lorry). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ucktray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | caminhão (cart, chariot, lorry). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | reboque (tow truck, towing). (various references) | |
Romanian | troc (barter, swap, truckage), vagonetaj (trolley), vagonet (box, carriage, lorry, tram, trolley, tub), vagon de marfã (waggon), schimb (barter, change, compensation, exchange, I change, pair, relay, relief, return, shift, spell, substitute, swap, swop), platformã (dray, foothold, pathway, platform, stand), platã în naturã, nimicuri (candle-end, paraphernalia, rubble, tinsel, tripe), legume proaspete puse în vânzare, face troc, face comerţ (deal in, handle, sell), catrafuse (belongings, trap, traps), cãrucior de bagaje, cãrucior (bogie, go cart, hand-cart, perambulator, push cart, trolley). (various references) | |
Romany | kamiònoos. (various references) | |
Russian | грузовик (automobile wagon, autotruck, commercial vehicle, lorry, moving van, tk truck). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | trgovina (business, commerce, dealership, trade, traffic), trampiti (barter, exchange, interchange, swap, swop), voziti kamionom, skitati (loaf, ramble, roam, straggle, traipse, wander), predmeti od male vrednosti, povrće za trgovinu, posao (affair, business, chore, job, ongoings, transaction, work), otvoreni teretni vagon, kolica (cart, go cart, praam, wagon), kamion (autotruck, camion, lorry), ići (gang, get on, go, go by, mosey, redound, tread in, walk, wend), hodati (pace, pad, walk). (various references) | |
Sicilian | camiuni. (various references) | |
Spanish | camión (camion, lorry, Van), vagón (car, carriage, coach, railway carriage, waggon, wagon), carretilla (Barrow, cart, go-cart, handcart, pallet truck, pushcart, trolley, wheelbarrow). (various references) | |
Sranan | frakwagi (lorry). (various references) | |
Swazi | lí-tilógo. (various references) | |
Swedish | lastbil (autotruck, camion, lorry, lurry), truck (trolley), transportvagn (trolley), transportera (carry, carry forward, carry over, convey, extend, ferry, lift, move, ship off, transfer, transport), kärra (barrow, bus, carriole, cart, drag, kite, pushcart, pushcart man, tumbrel, tumbril). (various references) | |
Thai | รถดับเพลิง (ที่มีบันไดยาวๆ) (ladder truck). (various references) | |
Turkish | trampa (barter, exchange, swap, swop), takas etmek (barter, change, commute, Dicker, exchange, interchange, swop, trade), takas (barter, clearing, Dicker, exchange, interchange, swap, swop), kamyon (bogie, camion, lorry, motor-lorry), bostan sebzesi, değersiz eşya, değiş tokuş (barter, exchange, permutation, swap, swop), değiş tokuş etmek (bargain, barter, change, exchange, interchange, swap, swop, traffic), direk şapkası, alış veriş yapmak, ilişki (affair, affaire, affinity, bond, commerce, connection, connexion, contact, copulation, corelate, correlate, correlation, daughter, dealing, dealings, gallantry, intercourse, interrelation, involvement, it, liaison, noose, rapport, reference, regard, relation, relationship, relevance, relevancy, sexual intercourse), yük vagonu (boxcar, freight car, Van, waggon, wagon), kamyonla taşımak, mal ile ödemek, pılı pırtı (belongings, candle-end, gear, gimcrackery, gimcracks, kit, traps, trinkets), el arabası (Barrow, drag, handcart, pushcart, trolley, wheelbarrow). (various references) | |
Turkmen | яuk maюina. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | товарообмін (barter), візок (buck, car, carriage, cart, trolley), вантажний автомобіль (camion, lorry), обмінювати (barter, change, exchange, trade off), перевозити на вантажівках, платити натурою (pay in kind), дрібний товар (chandlery). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự trao đổi (exchange), sự đổi chác đồ linh tinh. (various references) | |
Welsh | lori (lorry). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | trokhos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | trochus. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | trocare. (various references) |
| Old North French | 1200-1500 | troquer. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "truck": truckage, truckages, trucked, trucker, truckers, truckful, truckfuls, trucking, truckings, truckle, truckled, truckler, trucklers, truckles, truckline, trucklines, truckling, truckload, truckloads, truckman, truckmaster, truckmasters, truckmen, trucks. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "truck": awestruck, dumbstruck, misstruck, moonstruck, motortruck, overstruck, restruck, stagestruck, starstruck, struck, sunstruck, thunderstruck. (additional references) | |
Words containing "truck": motortrucks, strucken. (additional references) | |
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"Truck" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Druck, Druick, trck, treuk, Trewick, troc, trock, Troubk, trouc, truc, truch, Trucky, truk, Trumka, trunck, trux, tucc, turc, turca, tyuc, Tzuke. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "truck" (pronounced tru"k) |
| 4 | t r u" k | struck. |
| 3 | -r u" k | ruck. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-k-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: curt, ruck, tuck, turk. | |
-2 letters: cur, cut, rut. | |
-3 letters: ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-k-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: struck, trucks, tucker. | |
+2 letters: cutwork, outrock, trucked, trucker, truckle, tuckers. | |
+3 letters: autarkic, cutworks, ductwork, huckster, outrocks, outtrick, restruck, strucken, truckage, truckers, truckful, trucking, truckled, truckler, truckles, truckman, truckmen, tuckered. | |
+4 letters: awestruck, backcourt, buckthorn, drumstick, ductworks, fruitcake, hucksters, jackfruit, misstruck, outrocked, outtricks, sunstruck, touchmark, tracksuit, trebucket, truckages, truckfuls, truckings, trucklers, truckline, truckling, truckload, tuckering, waterbuck. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Names: Company Usage | 17. Expressions 18. Expressions: Internet 19. Translations: Modern 20. Translations: Ancient | 21. Derivations 22. Rhymes 23. Anagrams 24. Bibliography |
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