Automobile vs. Truck
Difference Between Automobile and Truck
Automobilenoun
A type of vehicle designed to move on the ground under its own stored power and intended to carry a driver, a small number of additional passengers, and a very limited amount of other load. A car or motorcar.
Trucknoun
A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun-carriage.
Automobileverb
To travel by automobile.
Trucknoun
The ball on top of a flagpole.
Automobileadjective
Self-moving; self-propelled.
Trucknoun
(nautical) 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".
Automobilenoun
4-wheeled motor vehicle; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine;
he needs a car to get to workTrucknoun
A semi-tractor ("semi") trailer; (British) a lorry.
Mexican open-bed trucks haul most of the fresh produce that comes into the United States from Mexico.Automobileverb
travel in an automobile
Trucknoun
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.
Trucknoun
A garden cart, a two-wheeled wheelbarrow.
Trucknoun
A small wagon or cart, of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or (obsolete) pulled by an animal, as with those in hotels for moving luggage, or in libraries for transporting books.
Trucknoun
A pantechnicon (removal van).
Trucknoun
A flatbed railway car.
Trucknoun
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
Trucknoun
The part of a skateboard or roller skate that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of a hanger, baseplate, kingpin, and bushings, and sometimes mounted with a riser in between.
Trucknoun
(theater) A platform with wheels or casters.
Trucknoun
Dirt or other messiness.
Trucknoun
Small, humble items; things, often for sale or barter.
Trucknoun
(historical) The practice of paying workers in kind, or with tokens only exchangeable at a shop owned by the employer [forbidden in the 19th century by the Truck Acts]
Trucknoun
(US) Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden).
Trucknoun
Social intercourse; dealings, relationships.
Truckverb
(intransitive) To drive a truck: Generally a truck driver's slang.
Truckverb
(transitive) To convey by truck.
Last week, Cletus trucked 100 pounds of lumber up to Dubuque.Truckverb
To travel or live contentedly.
Keep on trucking!Truckverb
To persist, to endure.
Keep on trucking!Truckverb
To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.
Truckverb
To fight or otherwise physically engage with.
Truckverb
To run over or through a tackler in American football.
Truckverb
To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.
Truckverb
To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.
Truckverb
To deceive; cheat; defraud.
Truckverb
To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down).
Truckverb
(transitive) To trade, exchange; barter.
Truckverb
(intransitive) To engage in commerce; to barter or deal.
Truckverb
(intransitive) To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.
Truckadjective
Pertaining to a garden patch or truck garden.
Trucknoun
an automotive vehicle suitable for hauling
Trucknoun
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
Truckverb
convey (goods etc.) by truck;
truck fresh vegetables across the mountains
