Truck
A truck or lorry is a motor vehicle designed to transport cargo. Trucks vary greatly in size, power, and configuration; smaller varieties may be mechanically similar to some automobiles. Commercial trucks can be very large and powerful, and may be configured to mount specialized equipment, such as in the case of fire trucks, concrete mixers, and suction excavators.
Modern trucks are largely powered by diesel engines, although small to medium size trucks with gasoline engines exist in the US, Canada, and Mexico. In the European Union, vehicles with a gross combination mass of up to 3.5 t (7,700 lb) are known as light commercial vehicles, and those over as large goods vehicles.
Rig (noun)
The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.
Rig (noun)
Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose.
Rig (noun)
A large truck such as a semi-tractor.
Rig (noun)
The special apparatus used for drilling wells.
Rig (noun)
A costume or an outfit.
Rig (noun)
A computer case, often modified for looks.
Rig (noun)
An imperfectly castrated horse, sheep etc.
Rig (noun)
Radio equipment, especially a citizen’s band transceiver.
Rig (noun)
A ridge.
Rig (noun)
A wanton; one given to unbecoming conduct.
Rig (noun)
A promiscuous woman.
Rig (noun)
A sportive or unbecoming trick; a frolic.
Rig (noun)
A blast of wind.
Rig (noun)
An algebraic structure similar to a ring, but without the requirement that every element have an additive inverse.
Rig (verb)
To fit out with a harness or other equipment.
Rig (verb)
To equip and fit (a ship) with sails, shrouds, and yards.
Rig (verb)
To dress or clothe in some costume.
Rig (verb)
To make or construct something in haste or in a makeshift manner.
Rig (verb)
To manipulate something dishonestly for personal gain or discriminatory purposes.
“to rig an election”
Rig (verb)
To make free with; hence, to steal; to pilfer.
Rig (verb)
To play the wanton; to act in an unbecoming manner; to play tricks.
Truck (noun)
A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun-carriage.
Truck (noun)
The ball on top of a flagpole.
Truck (noun)
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”.
Truck (noun)
A semi-tractor (“semi”) trailer; a lorry.
“Mexican open-bed trucks haul most of the fresh produce that comes into the United States from Mexico.”
Truck (noun)
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.
Truck (noun)
A garden cart, a two-wheeled wheelbarrow.
Truck (noun)
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.
Truck (noun)
A pantechnicon (removal van).
Truck (noun)
A flatbed railway car.
Truck (noun)
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
Truck (noun)
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.
Truck (noun)
A platform with wheels or casters.
Truck (noun)
Dirt or other messiness.
Truck (noun)
Small, humble items; things, often for sale or barter.
Truck (noun)
The practice of paying workers in kind, or with tokens only exchangeable at a shop owned by the employer [forbidden in the 19th century by the Truck Acts]
Truck (noun)
Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden).
Truck (noun)
Social intercourse; dealings, relationships.
Truck (verb)
To drive a truck: Generally a truck driver’s slang.
Truck (verb)
To convey by truck.
“Last week, Cletus trucked 100 pounds of lumber up to Dubuque.”
Truck (verb)
To travel or live contentedly.
“Keep on trucking!”
Truck (verb)
To persist, to endure.
“Keep on trucking!”
Truck (verb)
To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.
Truck (verb)
To fight or otherwise physically engage with.
Truck (verb)
To run over or through a tackler in American football.
Truck (verb)
To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.
Truck (verb)
To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.
Truck (verb)
To deceive; cheat; defraud.
Truck (verb)
To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down).
Truck (verb)
To trade, exchange; barter.
Truck (verb)
To engage in commerce; to barter or deal.
Truck (verb)
To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.
Truck (adjective)
Pertaining to a garden patch or truck garden.
Rig (verb)
provide (a sailing boat) with sails and rigging
“the catamaran will be rigged as a ketch”
“a gaff-rigged cutter”
Rig (verb)
assemble and adjust (the equipment of a sailing boat, aircraft, etc.) in readiness for operation
“most sails are kept ready rigged”
Rig (verb)
set up (equipment or a device or structure), typically in a makeshift or hasty way
“the power plant of the lifeboat had been rigged to explode”
“he had rigged up a sort of tent”
Rig (verb)
provide (someone) with clothes of a particular type
“a cavalry regiment rigged out in green and gold”
Rig (verb)
manage or conduct (something) fraudulently so as to gain an advantage
“charges of vote-rigging”
“the results of the elections had been rigged”
Rig (verb)
cause an artificial rise or fall in prices in (the stock market) with a view to personal profit
“he accused games firms of rigging the market”
Rig (noun)
the particular way in which a sailing boat’s masts, sails, and rigging are arranged
“a ketch rig”
Rig (noun)
the sail, mast, and boom of a windsurfer
“the stronger the wind, the later you release the rig”
Rig (noun)
a device or piece of equipment designed for a particular purpose
“a lighting rig”
Rig (noun)
an oil rig or drilling rig
“the North Sea rigs”
Rig (noun)
(in CB and short-wave radio) a transmitter and receiver
“the CB rig in the car was on channel 20”
Rig (noun)
a set of amplifiers and speakers used by a live band or a DJ in a club.
Rig (noun)
a particular type of construction for fishing tackle that bears the bait and hook
“the set-up with the smaller hook is free of lead and known as a free-line rig”
Rig (noun)
a person’s costume, outfit, or style of dress
“the rig of the American Army Air Corps”
Rig (noun)
a truck.
Rig (noun)
a trick or swindle.
Truck (noun)
a large, heavy road vehicle used for carrying goods, materials, or troops; a lorry.
Truck (noun)
a railway vehicle for carrying freight, especially a small open one.
Truck (noun)
a low flat-topped trolley used for moving heavy items.
Truck (noun)
a railway bogie.
Truck (noun)
each of two axle units on a skateboard, to which the wheels are attached.
Truck (noun)
a wooden disc at the top of a ship’s mast or flagstaff, with holes for halyards to slide through.
Truck (noun)
barter.
Truck (noun)
the payment of workers in kind or with vouchers rather than money.
Truck (noun)
small wares.
Truck (noun)
odds and ends.
Truck (noun)
market-garden produce, especially vegetables
“a truck garden”
Truck (verb)
convey by truck
“the food was trucked to St Petersburg”
Truck (verb)
drive a truck
“private contractors were trucking for Denali”
Truck (verb)
go or proceed in a casual or leisurely way
“my mate walked confidently behind them and trucked on through!”
Truck (verb)
barter or exchange.