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Truck can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.

truck used as an adjective:

  1. Pertaining to a garden patch or truck garden.
    "November 4, 1792 As the home house people (the industrious part of them at least) might want ground for their truck patches, they might, for this purpose, cultivate what would be cleared. But I would have the ground from the cross fence by the Spring, quite round by the Wharf, first grubbed, before the (above mentioned) is attempted. — George Washington, [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=700376730&tag=Washington,+George,+1732-1799:+The+writings+of+George+Washington+from+the+original+manuscript+sources:+Volume+32,+1745-1799&query=truck&id=WasFi32 The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources: Volume 32, 1745-1799.]"

Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →

truck used as a noun:

  1. A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun-carriage.
  2. The ball on top of a flagpole.
  3. 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".
  4. 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."
  5. 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.
  6. A garden cart, a two-wheeled wheelbarrow.
  7. 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.
  8. A pantechnicon.
  9. A flatbed railway car.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. (theatre) A platform with wheels or casters.
  13. (often used in plural sense) Small, humble items; things, often for sale or barter.
    "1884 There was sheds made out of poles and roofed over with branches, where they had lemonade and gingerbread to sell, and piles of watermelons and green corn and such-like truck. — Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=636457372&tag=Twain,+Mark,+1835-1910:+Adventures+of+Huckleberry+Finn,+1884&query=truck&id=Twa2Huc Chapter 20.]"
  14. Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden).
    "1923 I obtained my first view of a lunar city. It was built around a crater, and the buildings were terraced back from the rim, the terraces being generally devoted to the raising of garden truck and the principal fruit-bearing trees and shrubs. Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Moon Maid, [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=123017794&tag=Burroughs,+Edgar+Rice,+1875-1950:+The+Moon+Maid,+1923&query=truck&id=BurMmai Chapter 10.]"
  15. Social intercourse; dealings, relationships.
    "1890 'How can I decide?' said I. 'You have not told me what you want of me. But I tell you now that if it is anything against the safety of the fort I will have no truck with it, so you can drive home your knife and welcome.' — Arthur Conan Doyle, [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=278979545&tag=Doyle,+Arthur+Conan:+The+Sign+of+Four&query=truck&id=DoySign The Sign of the Four.]"

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

truck used as a verb:

  1. To drive a truck.
  2. To convey by truck.
  3. To travel or live contentedly.
    "Keep on trucking!"
  4. To persist, to endure.
    "Keep on trucking!"
  5. (film production) To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.
  6. To run over or through a tackler in American football.
  7. To trade, exchange; barter.
  8. To engage in commerce; to barter or deal.
  9. To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

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What type of word is truck?

As detailed above, 'truck' can be an adjective, a noun or a verb. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Adjective usage: November 4, 1792 As the home house people (the industrious part of them at least) might want ground for their truck patches, they might, for this purpose, cultivate what would be cleared. But I would have the ground from the cross fence by the Spring, quite round by the Wharf, first grubbed, before the (above mentioned) is attempted. — George Washington, [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=700376730&tag=Washington,+George,+1732-1799:+The+writings+of+George+Washington+from+the+original+manuscript+sources:+Volume+32,+1745-1799&query=truck&id=WasFi32 The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources: Volume 32, 1745-1799.]
  2. Adjective usage: 1903 "Wid dat, Brer Rabbit 'low dat Mr. Man done been had 'im hired fer ter take keer er his truck patch, an' keep out de minks, de mush-rats an' de weasels. — Joel Chandler Harris, "Brother Rabbit's Cradle", New Stories of the Old Plantation, [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=338797731&tag=Harris,+Joel+Chandler,+1848-1908:+Brother+Rabbit`s+Cradle,+1903&query=truck&id=HarBrot Chapter 11]
  3. Noun usage: Mexican open-bed trucks haul most of the fresh produce that comes into the United States from Mexico.
  4. Noun usage: 1884 There was sheds made out of poles and roofed over with branches, where they had lemonade and gingerbread to sell, and piles of watermelons and green corn and such-like truck. — Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=636457372&tag=Twain,+Mark,+1835-1910:+Adventures+of+Huckleberry+Finn,+1884&query=truck&id=Twa2Huc Chapter 20.]
  5. Noun usage: 1911 It happened in this way, on a day when I was indulging in a particularly greenery-yallery fit of gloom. Norah rushed into my room. I think I was mooning over some old papers, or letters, or ribbons, or some such truck in the charming, knife-turning way that women have when they are blue. — Edna Ferber, Dawn O'Hara, the Girl who Laughed, [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=303592886&tag=Ferber,+Edna:+Dawn+O'Hara,+the+Girl+who+Laughed&query=truck&id=FerDawn Chapter 5.]
  6. Noun usage: 1923 I obtained my first view of a lunar city. It was built around a crater, and the buildings were terraced back from the rim, the terraces being generally devoted to the raising of garden truck and the principal fruit-bearing trees and shrubs. Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Moon Maid, [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=123017794&tag=Burroughs,+Edgar+Rice,+1875-1950:+The+Moon+Maid,+1923&query=truck&id=BurMmai Chapter 10.]
  7. Noun usage: 1890 'How can I decide?' said I. 'You have not told me what you want of me. But I tell you now that if it is anything against the safety of the fort I will have no truck with it, so you can drive home your knife and welcome.' — Arthur Conan Doyle, [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=278979545&tag=Doyle,+Arthur+Conan:+The+Sign+of+Four&query=truck&id=DoySign The Sign of the Four.]
  8. Verb usage: Keep on trucking!
  9. Verb usage: Keep on trucking!

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of truck are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of truck, and guess at its most common usage.

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