truck

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

Noun

1. A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.
2. The ball on top of a flagpole.
3. 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".
4. A heavier motor vehicle designed to carry goods or to pull a semi-trailer designed to carry goods.
5. A lorry with a closed or covered carriage.
6. A railroad car, chiefly one designed to carry goods
7. Any smaller wagon/cart or vehicle of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or (obsolete) pulled by an animal, used to move and sometimes lift goods, like those in hotels for moving luggage or in libraries for moving books.
8. Abbreviation of railroad truck or wheel truck; 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.
9. 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.
10. A platform with wheels or casters.
11. Dirt or other messiness.

Verb

1. To drive a truck.
2. To convey by truck.
3. (slang) To travel, to proceed.
4. (slang) To persist, to endure.
5. To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.
6. (slang) To fight or otherwise physically engage with.
7. (slang) To run over or through a tackler in American football.

Verb

1. To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.
2. To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.
3. To deceive; cheat; defraud.

Verb

To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down).

Verb

1. To trade, exchange; barter.
2. To engage in commerce; to barter or deal.
3. To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/tɹʌk/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Perhaps a shortening of truckle, related to Latin trochus (“iron hoop, wheel”) from Ancient Greek τροχός (trokhós).

Προτάσεις

He was standing on a pickup truck with a megaphone and propagated his opinion .

Στέκεψε σε ένα φορτηγό με ένα megaphone και διέδωσε τη γνώμη του.