What's the difference between caravan and trailer?

Caravan


Definition:

  • (n.) A company of travelers, pilgrims, or merchants, organized and equipped for a long journey, or marching or traveling together, esp. through deserts and countries infested by robbers or hostile tribes, as in Asia or Africa.
  • (n.) A large, covered wagon, or a train of such wagons, for conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition; an itinerant show, as of wild beasts.
  • (n.) A covered vehicle for carrying passengers or for moving furniture, etc.; -- sometimes shorted into van.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Most Roma don't live in caravans, either; in south-eastern and central Europe they have been settled since the 15 century, often segregated on the outskirts of towns and villages.
  • (2) "It's very, very quiet," said Jill Cloke, owner of Upper Lynstone caravan and camping park in Bude, north Cornwall.
  • (3) The mood is fantastic: upbeat, from a crowd of older locals reliving their youth to cool young thangs attracted by Margate’s burgeoning reputation as Dalston-sur-Mer; fiftysomething men in braces and Harringtons, candy-floss-chomping teens… People are picnicking on the fake lawn beside the hair and beauty caravan, children gyrating newly bought hula-hoops to the strains of I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts.
  • (4) St Osyth is earthier than this, even though you'll find Rollers parked next to the fanciest caravans.
  • (5) Much of it is made from the same wood panelling from the caravan floors, and is readily and cheaply available in the local markets.
  • (6) Later, the group raised €1,000 to have it plumbed into the caravan and a septic tank dug, so the toilet works.
  • (7) Zschäpe was arrested in November 2011, after the bodies of Mundlos and Böhnhardt were found in a burnt out caravan in Eisenach, following a bank robbery that went badly wrong, after which the men apparently killed each other in a suicide pact.
  • (8) A caravan comprising 300 yaks, 50 mules and 100 porters wound through the Himalayan valleys, carrying 900 boxes of food, all because 13 white men wanted to reach the summit.
  • (9) The authors modified a caravan for the purpose of audiometric testing in the neighbourhood of industrial workplaces.
  • (10) Over the last 30 years, a dense canopy of trees has grown to shade its ramshackle cluster of caravans, old buses, huts and makeshift toilets, many decorated with peace slogans and abstract murals.
  • (11) Earlier this year, I stayed in a remodelled gypsy caravan in the garden of the owner’s home while making my way back to the UK via Burgundy.
  • (12) The two men believed to have founded the NSU with her, Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Böhnhardt, set their caravan on fire and killed themselves in 2011 after a bank robbery went wrong.
  • (13) • Gîtes (sleeping 4-7 from €450 a week, 020-3603 1160, babyfriendlyboltholes.co.uk Croas Men farm, near Morlaix Accommodation options at this unusual campsite include ridge tents and a gypsy caravan but the best option for families is La Maisonnette, a simple wooden house overlooking a donkey meadow.
  • (14) 12-24 University Avenue (028-9032 6589, commongrounds.co.uk ) Rocket & Relish Rocket and Relish Chef-owner Chris Boyd started out selling gourmet burgers at festivals from a converted Airstream caravan.
  • (15) His story of a Gypsy drug dealer threatened with eviction from his caravan in a Wiltshire wood became, rather than drowning in over-ambitious "Themes", fantastically mercurial.
  • (16) Lisa Dorrian Photograph: Photopress Seven years after the 1998 Good Friday agreement largely brought the conflict to an end, Dorrian, 25, disappeared from a caravan park on the County Down coast, south of Belfast.
  • (17) Most are of British or Irish stock, some migrate and others live in caravan sites all year.
  • (18) Two weeks later, they took delivery of a caravan, returned home, and began a long period of cramped and stressful living that has yet to draw to a close.
  • (19) "And they provided us with caravans that were out on the road outside the factory.
  • (20) "We've lived with the motorway link idea for more than 20 years now," said caravan site owner Rob Ditchfield (video) , in between selling his free range hens' eggs to fellow members of High Legh golf club.

Trailer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, trails.
  • (n.) A part of an object which extends some distance beyond the main body of the object; as, the trailer of a plant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The 3' end of the cell cycle regulated mRNA terminates immediately following the region of hyphenated dyad symmetry typical of most histone mRNAs, whereas the constitutively expressed mRNA has a 1798 nt non-translated trailer that contains the same region of hyphenated dyad symmetry but is polyadenylated.
  • (2) Even the landscape is secretive: vast tracts of crown land and hidden valleys with nothing but a dead end road and lonely farmhouse, with a tractor and trailer pulled across the farmyard for protection.
  • (3) In a trailer shown Sunday for an upcoming documentary on state-run Rossiya-1 television called “Homeward bound”, Putin openly discusses Moscow’s controversial grabbing of Crimea a year ago.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Terms and Conditions May Apply – trailer It’s pretty simple, really.
  • (5) Girls star Lena Dunham confirms sixth season will be show's last Read more It’s worth noting that Hannah, Marnie, Shoshanna and Jessa have aged considerably more slowly than those of us in the real world, with the trailer for Girls’ forthcoming series placing Marnie at 25.
  • (6) According to Indian media reports, he told the attackers to tell journalists that the "attack was a trailer and the entire movie was yet to come".
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Obama’s thank-you notes 1) Red Hot Chili Peppers Carpool Karaoke Bare talent 2) Thank You Notes with President Obama Love, Potus 3) Irish fans serenade nun on train with ‘Our Father’ chant Lauding a sister 4) Disappointed guinea pig Pet lip 5) 10 Confusing Famous Movie Endings Finally explained All’s well that ends well 6) Pete’s Dragon - Official US Trailer Breathing new life into a classic 7) Brexit’s Farage Flotilla: The Movie Water carry on 8) Patience - 4k timelapse movie Beauty speeded up
  • (8) Titanic's trailer is two minutes 37 seconds of lifeboat-related stampeding intercut with women swishing about in big hats doing seasick Dowager Countess expressions.
  • (9) So it’s comforting to note that Spectre seems to be offering a significant upgrade: the trailer shows Q introducing Bond to his new ultra-speedy Aston Martin DB10, and promising it boasts a “few tricks”.
  • (10) But initial fan reaction to the first teaser trailers was harsh.
  • (11) On the day of transport, samples were collected at 0700 hours at location 1, immediately before and after transport in a trailer, after unloading at location 2, and at 1900 hours at location 2.
  • (12) But here's the kicker: the trailer actually has very little to do with the content of the game.
  • (13) Click here to watch the trailer Pfister, a long-term collaborator of Christopher Nolan , looks to have implanted some of Nolan's ideas into Transcendence.
  • (14) Not relegate them to background characters in the service of a white cis-male fictional protagonist.” Both groups have drawn their conclusions from the film’s trailer.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Watch the trailer for Tomorrowland May brings us Tomorrowland, the latest movie from Brad Bird of The Incredibles and Ratatouille fame.
  • (16) He added that a film's success was 97% down to a good film, 2% to publicity material such as a trailer and 1% publicity in the press.
  • (17) In early November, I was contacted by my good friend Jamie Stone, who said he wanted to go and offered his truck and trailer to haul supplies.
  • (18) The H2B protein coding region of HHC289 is flanked at the 3' end by a 1798-nt nontranslated trailer that contains a region of hyphenated dyad symmetry and a poly(A) addition sequence, followed by a poly(A) tail.
  • (19) This morning's trailer for Nick Clegg's "new progressives" speech tonight managed to irritate Labour bloggers as it was probably intended to do.
  • (20) Between June and October 1987, a total of 8,573 people underwent a cholesterol screening held in a movable trailer.