Meaning & use
truck
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Meanings
nouncountableAmerican
A large motor vehicle designed to carry heavy loads or goods by road.
Grammar: Countable: a truck, the truck, trucks.
Patterns
- by truck
- drive a truck
- truck driver
The truck delivered furniture to our new house.
He drives a truck for a living.
Goods are often transported by truck.
verbtransitiveAmerican
To transport goods by truck.
Grammar: Takes an object: truck goods somewhere.
Patterns
- truck something to somewhere
- truck something in
They trucked the supplies to the disaster area.
We trucked the produce from the farm to the market.
Word forms
| plural | trucks |
|---|---|
| third person singular | trucks |
| past tense | trucked |
| past participle | trucked |
| -ing form | trucking |
Common combinations
- truck driver
- Her father was a long-haul truck driver.
- dump truck
- The dump truck unloaded gravel at the site.
- fire truck
- The fire truck raced down the street.
- truck stop
- We ate at a truck stop on the highway.
Synonyms and how they differ
Word family
- trucker noun
- A person who drives a truck.
- trucking noun
- The business of transporting goods by truck.
Commonly confused: truck or track?
truck vs track
A 'track' is a path or railway line; a 'truck' is a vehicle.
Practice
In British English, the large vehicle that carries goods on roads is usually called a ___.
Choose one answer.
British English uses 'lorry' for the large goods vehicle; American English uses 'truck'. 'Van' is smaller, and 'cart' is pulled by animals or hands.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “truck”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.