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# truck

«truck» in Mova's school dictionary: **a big vehicle for carrying heavy things (UK also: lorry)** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (truck, trucks)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A truck is a big vehicle for carrying heavy things (UK also: lorry). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/truck/#m1)

2) A truck is also a small cart with wheels for moving things by hand: a hand truck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/truck/#m2)

3) A food truck is a van that cooks and sells food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/truck/#m3)

4) Truck can also mean garden vegetables grown to be sold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/truck/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: a carrier with a load (boxes per truck), trips, weight; trucks needed = total ÷ load, rounded up. Everyday: fire truck, dump truck, garbage truck (UK: bin lorry), tow truck, pickup truck. Safety: big trucks have blind spots — stay far away when they turn.

### examples

- Each truck carries 20 boxes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/truck/#x1)
- There are 5 trucks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/truck/#x2)
- A truck can hold 3 tons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/truck/#x3)
- How many trucks are needed for 90 boxes? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/truck/#x4)
- The fire truck raced down the street. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/truck/#x5)
- The garbage truck comes on Mondays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/truck/#x6)
- We bought tacos from the food truck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/truck/#x7)
- Never walk behind a truck that is backing up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/truck/#x8)
- Yer you bin gobblin' up my green truck, en now you tryin' ter tote off my trap. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/truck/#x9)

### note

Countable: a truck, trucks. Truck (US) = lorry (UK). Load per truck is a rate; total = trucks × load; trucks needed = total ÷ load, rounded up. Trap: 90 boxes in trucks of 20 need 5 trucks, not 4.5.

### In the corpora

- [Recycling is good, but it still uses energy and trucks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/32-recycling-second-life/4/)
- ["Fell off a truck" is the US joke meaning the goods were stolen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/8/)
- [Lorry and truck drivers have big blind spots beside their cab, where they cannot see a cyclist at all.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/272-bikes-scooters-and-car-parks/20/)
- [Example: friends in Brisbane dare a boy to run across the road before a truck comes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/284-facts-opinions-and-saying-no-to-dares/6/)
- [Never ride up the inside of a truck or lorry at a junction: the driver cannot see you and it may turn.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/310-pavements-crossings-cars-planes-and-bikes/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «truck» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/truck/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.