(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.
Vehicular
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a vehicle; serving as a vehicle; as, a vehicular contrivance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Approximately half were vehicular crash victims and 78% were men.
(2) All the patients sustained their knee ligament injury in sporting activities except one patient who was involved in a motor vehicular accident.
(3) We found that growth of the EMS system, as measured by the cumulative number of EMT's trained, correlated strongly with the decline in prehospital (r = 0.95; p less than 0.001), in-hospital (r = 0.84; p less than 0.001), total (r = 0.95; p less than 0.001), vehicular (r = 0.86; p less than 0.001), and nonvehicular (r = 0.93; p less than 0.001) trauma deaths.
(4) Farm, industrial, and vehicular accidents accounted for 80% of the cases.
(5) Death on the X-ray table while allowing persistence of hypovolemia was the common denominator in four of the five victims who died of ruptured spleens in the emergency departments, after having arrived alive following vehicular trauma.
(6) Those studied were 71.7% men, 77.4% whites, 63.2% vehicular trauma victims, 11.2% assault victims, and 25.7% other trauma victims.
(7) The best chance for fetal survival is to ensure maternal survival, so awareness of the types of injuries and their presentation after vehicular trauma is of the utmost importance.
(8) The increased use of child safety seats and seat belt restraints has significantly reduced the incidence of severe head injuries associated with motor vehicular accidents.
(9) Such additives would have to be stable in vehicular cooling systems and not adversely affect the functional aspects of AF performance.
(10) Epidemiological aspects manifested in vehicular accidents in New Delhi during the year 1983-84 are illustrated here.
(11) The NYPD arrested 11 protesters on Saturday, charging most of them with disorderly conduct, obstructing vehicular traffic and failing to disperse.
(12) We report a case of isolated complete azygos vein transection as a result of blunt motor vehicular trauma.
(13) In forty patients treated at The University of Texas Medical Branch Hospitals for fifty-two fractures of forty-one scapulae from 1961 through 1973, most of the fractures were the result of vehicular accidents.
(14) Space folk call these EVAs (short for extra-vehicular activity), but it is clearly the glamour job – and it excites the astronauts, who experience perhaps the most wondrous view that is ever experienced by anyone.
(15) Vehicular accidents accounted for 36% of cervical spine radiographic abnormalities, and sports or playground accidents accounted for an additional 36%.
(16) Most pediatric trauma is associated with vehicular and pedestrian accidents.
(17) Whether these associated injuries would have been neglected had laparotomy for splenic trauma not been performed is uncertain, and so non-operative management of splenic trauma remains contentious, particularly in cases following vehicular accidents.
(18) A little unfair – vindictive, even – as he's never insisted on driving, is happy to play the passive role in our vehicular relationship and I have far more road miles under my belt.
(19) The criteria used by medical examiners for vehicular suicide are also discussed.
(20) Breakdown of the cases into various modes of death showed that homicides, vehicular accidents, and suicides predominated.