What's the difference between juggernaut and truck?

Juggernaut


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the names under which Vishnu, in his incarnation as Krishna, is worshiped by the Hindoos.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some of their most cherished objectives, such as parliamentary reform, have been left as roadkill by the juggernauts of Tory and Labour hostility.
  • (2) The George Bush campaign juggernaut hit the first serious pothole of its cash-fuelled drive to the presidency yesterday, as the Texas governor tried in vain to fend off questions about whether he had used cocaine as a young man.
  • (3) Nearly £5bn was wiped off the company's stock market value on Thursday after the supermarket juggernaut hit the wall during the peak selling season.
  • (4) It was a taste of off-grid hippy monasticism inspired by his time at Taliesin West, where each student had to build their own shelter in the desert (a tradition that continues there today), and an embodiment of his underlying motive to “frugalise the frenzied consumerist juggernaut”.
  • (5) How is that going to change the juggernaut that is this bill in progress?"
  • (6) Last year's final, when Simon Ambrose was hired, was up against ITV's juggernaut Britain's Got Talent and drew an average of 6.8 million viewers.
  • (7) Though the Toyota juggernaut may have left the road for now, the firm's name still looms large.
  • (8) Organised as Isis less than 18 months ago, the group had previously worked hard to cultivate a reputation as an all-powerful juggernaut.
  • (9) The activities of the BBC 's commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, came in for criticism from rival media companies today, with one executive branding it an "out-of-control juggernaut".
  • (10) There is a lot of land to be sold to people with cars – and unless it is bought up, this juggernaut of urbanisation could yet stall.
  • (11) And they are easy targets for the GMP media juggernaut to focus the blame on.” She said she had highlighted problems raised in the report back in 2011 in a letter to the chief constable, Peter Fahy.
  • (12) But the corporate juggernaut has thundered on, driving the Brussels agenda.
  • (13) They were the "juggernaut leading the Korean Wave across Asia, the embodiment of the ultra-slick choreography and catchy pop songs that earned K-pop its reputation", says Robert Poole, chief executive of SomethingDrastic, a Tokyo-based Asian music promoter.
  • (14) "It's time to help create vibrant, local economies – even if that means standing in the way of the global corporate juggernauts."
  • (15) Sadly, such hard-headed thinking is at odds with the political desire to keep the reform juggernaut motoring onwards at all costs.
  • (16) Well they certainly did look more like the juggernaut they were in the first half of the season, but that was just one game and the Atlanta Hawks looked like their regular seasons selves, the ones who only accidentally made the playoffs because the New York Knicks were especially New York Knicks-y this season.
  • (17) However, his campaign faces bigger obstacles in the meantime as it struggles to combat the Clinton juggernaut.
  • (18) If Bosh is racking up his fair share of points and rebounds, the Heat are an unstoppable offensive juggernaut.
  • (19) "The medium has grown up, and now the GTA franchise is a giant juggernaut that appears to be punching down instead of up," says female games journalist Leigh Alexander.
  • (20) Backing for the president in Northampton County, Pennsylvania , a former industrial juggernaut which voted for Barack Obama twice before falling for Trump in 2016, appeared to be healthy, three months in.

Truck


Definition:

  • (v. i.) A small wheel, as of a vehicle; specifically (Ord.), a small strong wheel, as of wood or iron, for a gun carriage.
  • (v. i.) A low, wheeled vehicle or barrow for carrying goods, stone, and other heavy articles.
  • (v. i.) A swiveling carriage, consisting of a frame with one or more pairs of wheels and the necessary boxes, springs, etc., to carry and guide one end of a locomotive or a car; -- sometimes called bogie in England. Trucks usually have four or six wheels.
  • (v. i.) A small wooden cap at the summit of a flagstaff or a masthead, having holes in it for reeving halyards through.
  • (v. i.) A small piece of wood, usually cylindrical or disk-shaped, used for various purposes.
  • (v. i.) A freight car.
  • (v. i.) A frame on low wheels or rollers; -- used for various purposes, as for a movable support for heavy bodies.
  • (v. t.) To transport on a truck or trucks.
  • (v. t.) To exchange; to give in exchange; to barter; as, to truck knives for gold dust.
  • (v. i.) To exchange commodities; to barter; to trade; to deal.
  • (n.) Exchange of commodities; barter.
  • (n.) Commodities appropriate for barter, or for small trade; small commodities; esp., in the United States, garden vegetables raised for the market.
  • (n.) The practice of paying wages in goods instead of money; -- called also truck system.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) said Wanis Kilani, a uniformed rebel driving a pickup truck with a machine-gun mounted on the back.
  • (2) Godiya Usman, an 18-year-old finalist who jumped off the back of the truck, said she feels trapped by survivor's guilt.
  • (3) She knew that Ford needed parts for the best-selling truck in America, and she knew how to make them.
  • (4) There were 119 quarry drilling and crusher workers (outdoor, physically active), 77 quarry truck and loader drivers (outdoor, physically inactive), 92 postal deliverymen (outdoor, physically active), 75 postal clerks (indoor, physically inactive), and 43 hospital maintenance workers (indoor, physically active).
  • (5) Koehler confirmed German media reports that the truck had apparently been slowed by an automatic braking system, bringing it to a standstill after 70 to 80 metres (230-260ft) and preventing worse carnage.
  • (6) The territories are drying up; there are many communities that have no water, and that are getting water from tanker trucks."
  • (7) Under the initiatives announced on Wednesday, the two countries agreed to work together to reduce emissions from heavy duty trucks and other vehicles by raising fuel efficiency standards and introducing cleaner fuels.
  • (8) Called a truck stand, it involves balancing on the front tyre with your hands in the air.
  • (9) Ariel Żurawski, the owner of the eponymous trucking company and the victim’s cousin, who identified Urban in a photograph, said it was clear that Urban engaged in a struggle with his killer.
  • (10) The threshold of instantaneous change of stage 2 to shallower stages due to the sound of a passing truck was at the peak level at less than 55 dB (A), and that of stage REM to other stages at 55 to 60 dB (A).
  • (11) All this human wreckage leads to a nondescript white truck that could not be stopped by the weight of people in front of it or the bullets from the police officers who fired at it.
  • (12) A ccents from every state in the union can be heard as workers pour off the train each day in Williston, North Dakota, ready to try their luck as the welders, truck drivers, plumbers, oil rig roughnecks, frackers, water carriers and road crews required to support the booming fracking industry – but also as plumbers, lawyers, cooks, accountants and everything else it takes to build a rapidly burgeoning city.
  • (13) He also alleges that the Japanese government is trucking radioactive material from the Fukushima site all over Japan, in order to "increase the cancer rate in the whole of Japan so that there will be no control group" of children unaffected by the disaster, in order to help the Japanese government prevent potential lawsuits from people whose health may have been affected by the radiation.
  • (14) Among the fork-lift truck drivers, a statistically significant higher occurrence of low-back trouble was reported for the year preceding the study, in comparison, according to age, to that of a reference group of 399 working men (65 against 47%); however, there was no significantly increased frequency when compared to that of a reference group of 66 unskilled male workers (65 against 51%).
  • (15) FedEx, for example, as an operator of trucks, supported the first-ever fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas standards for US commercial vehicles, which were enacted in 2007.
  • (16) While companies such as Google and luxury brands like Lexus have dominated the headlines with advances in driverless cars, Daimler board member Wolfgang Bernhard told reporters autonomous trucks were likely to hit the roads first.
  • (17) The Tunisian delivery driver who killed 84 people when he drove a truck into a crowd watching Bastille Day fireworks in Nice on Thursday sent a text message just before the attack about his supply of weapons.
  • (18) A truck stopped on a street corner, blaring martyrdom hymns throughout the cavernous lanes and alleys of the party's heartland.
  • (19) Its loss would be a major blow to Ukraine and would also allow the rebels to receive large cargo planes with supplies in addition to truck convoys from Russia .
  • (20) The year before that, a video of a huge truck bomb ploughing into Salerno base in Khost province upended Nato reports of a relatively minor attack in which no one was killed.