Difference between Truck and Van

What is the difference between Truck and Van?

Truck as a noun is a small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun-carriage. while Van as a noun is a (covered) vehicle used for carrying goods or people, usually roughly cuboid in shape, longer and higher than a car but smaller than a truck.

Truck

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Pertaining to a garden patch or truck garden.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun-carriage. The ball on top of a flagpole. 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". A semi-tractor ("semi") trailer; a lorry. Any motor vehicle designed for carrying cargo, including delivery vans, pickups, and other motorized vehicles (including passenger autos) fitted with a bed designed to carry goods. A garden cart, a two-wheeled wheelbarrow. A small wagon or cart, of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or pulled by an animal, as with those in hotels for moving luggage, or in libraries for transporting books. A pantechnicon. A flatbed railway car. 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. The axle on many types of railway car is not attached to the truck and relies on gravity to remain within the truck's brackets (on the truck's base) that hold the axle in place. The part of a skateboard that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of a hanger, baseplate, kingpin, and bushings, and sometimes mounted with a riser in between. (theatre) A platform with wheels or casters. (often used in plural sense) Small, humble items; things, often for sale or barter. Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden). Social intercourse; dealings, relationships.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To drive a truck. To convey by truck. To travel or live contentedly. To persist, to endure. (film production) To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject. To run over or through a tackler in American football. To trade, exchange; barter. To engage in commerce; to barter or deal. To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.

Van

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A (covered) vehicle used for carrying goods or people, usually roughly cuboid in shape, longer and higher than a car but smaller than a truck.a railway carriageA covered vehicle used for carrying goods or people, usually roughly cuboid in shape, longer and higher than a car but smaller than a truck/lorry.A covered vehicle used for carrying goods or people, usually roughly cuboid in shape, longer and higher than a car but smaller than a truck/lorry.

Example sentence: It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.

We hope you now know whether to use Truck or Van in your sentence.

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