| 释义 |
truck
I. \ˈtrək\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English trukken, trukien, from Old French troquer
transitive verb
1. : to give in exchange : swap
< I would not truck this brilliant day to rule — John Keats >
2.
a. : to exchange with an expectation of gain : barter
< maintain a trade with their neighbors and truck their work with them for any necessaries — W.E.Roth >
b. : to dispose of by bartering
< some of our kings have … trucked away for foreign gold the interests and glory of their crown — Edmund Burke >
3. : to deal with or pay on the truck system
intransitive verb
1. : to exchange commodities : barter
< the disposition peculiar to mankind to truck — A.C.Pigou >
2.
a. : to negotiate or traffic especially in an underhanded way
b. : to establish a familiar basis : have intercourse
3. Scotland : to go about on insignificant affairs : putter
II. noun
(-s)
1.
a. : the practice of trading by exchanging goods : barter
b. : a shrewd trade : deal
2. : commodities appropriate for barter or for small trade
< accepted these simple gifts but ordered them all paid for out of the trading truck — S.E.Morison >
3. : close association : contact, dealings
< with all such nonsense I have never had any truck — Daniel George >
< never at any time did he have the slightest truck with … vulgarity — Clinton Rossiter >
< wouldn't want you to have truck with the family — Clemence Dane >
4. : payment of wages in goods instead of cash
< the worst conditions, long hours, irregular payment of wages, truck … were to be found — J.H.Plumb >
— see truck system
5. : vegetables that are grown for the market
< a good piece of land … by the springs to raise truck on — J.F.Dobie >
6. : heterogeneous small articles often of little value : hodge-podge; also : rubbish
< any such mess of truck — Kenneth Roberts >
< drawstring bags … hold almost enough truck to be classified as luggage — New Yorker >
III. adjective
1. : of or relating to the truck system
2. : consisting of or dealing in garden stuff
IV. noun
(-s)
Etymology: probably from Latin trochus iron hoop, from Greek trochos wheel, from trechein to run — more at trochee
1. : a small wheel; specifically : a small strong wheel usually of wood or iron for a gun carriage
2. : a small wooden cap at the top of a flagstaff or a masthead usually having holes in it for reeving flag or signal halyards — see ship illustration
3. : a wheeled vehicle used for moving heavy articles: as
a. : a strong cart or wagon used for hauling
< the horses died of starvation and the men harnessed themselves to trucks — H.E.Scudder >
b. : hand truck
c. : a small heavy rectangular frame supported on four wheels used instead of rollers for moving heavy objects
d. : a small flat-topped car sometimes with stakes or vertical ends to prevent the load from falling that is usually pushed or pulled by hand
e. : a shelved stand mounted on casters
4.
a. Britain : an open railroad freight car
b. : a swiveling carriage consisting of a frame with one or more pairs of wheels and the necessary boxes and springs especially to carry and guide one end of a locomotive or a railroad car in turning sharp curves
5.
a. : an automotive vehicle built for the transportation of goods on its own chassis
b. : a motorized vehicle equipped with a swivel for hauling a trailer
V. verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
transitive verb
: to load or transport on a truck
intransitive verb
1. : to transport goods by truck : be employed in driving a truck
2. : to execute a trucking step — usually used with down
< singing at the top of his lungs … trucking down the trail — Margaret Hastings >
3. : track 2b
VI. adjective
: of, relating to, used by, or made for a truck
< a truck tire >
< truck route >
VII. intransitive verb
: to roll along especially in an easy untroubled way
< keep on trucking > |