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As nouns the difference between bug and truck

is that bug is god while truck is a small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun-carriage or truck can be (obsolete|often used in plural sense) small, humble items; things, often for sale or barter.

As a verb truck is

to fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate or truck can be to drive a truck or truck can be to tread (down); stamp on; trample (down) or truck can be to trade, exchange; barter.

As an adjective truck is

pertaining to a garden patch or truck garden.

bug

English

(wikipedia bug)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An insect of the order Hemiptera (the "true bugs").
  • (colloquial) Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest.
  • These flies are a bother. I’ll get some bug spray and kill them.
  • Various species of marine or freshwater crustaceans; e.g. a Morton Bay bug, mudbug.
  • A problem that needs fixing, especially in computing.
  • The software bug led the computer to calculate 2 plus 2 as 5.
  • * {{quote-book, year= 1878
  • , year_published= 1989 , quotee= (Thomas Edison) , author= Thomas P. Hughes , quoted_in= American Genesis: A History of the American Genius for Invention , url= , title=Edison to Puskas, 13 November 1878, Edison papers , type= cited by , chapter= , section= , isbn= 0-14-009741-4 , edition= , publisher= Penguin Books , location= Edison National Laboratory, U.S. National Park Service, West Orange, N.J. , editor= , volume= , page= 75 , passage= I have the right principle and am on the right track, but time, hard work and some good luck are necessary too. It has been just so in all of my inventions. The first step is an intuition, and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise -- this thing gives out and [it is] then that "Bugs " -- as such little faults and difficulties are called -- show themselves and months of intense watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success or failure is certainly reached. }}
  • A contagious illness; a bacterium or virus causing it
  • He’s got the flu bug .
  • An enthusiasm for something; an obsession
  • I think he’s a gold bug , he has over 10,000 ounces in storage.
    to catch the skiing bug
  • An electronic intercept device
  • We installed a bug in her telephone
  • A small and and usually invisible file (traditionally a single-pixel image) on a World Wide Web page, primarily used to track users.
  • He suspected the image was a web bug used for determining who was visiting the site.
  • (broadcasting) A small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a television program to indicate what network or cable channel is televising it
  • Channel 4's bug distracted Jim from his favorite show
  • (aviation) A manually positioned marker in flight instruments
  • A semi-automated telegraph key
  • * 1938 , Paul Gallico, Farewell to Sport , page 257:
  • At this point your telegraph operator, sitting at your right, goes "Ticky-tick-tickety-de-tick-tick," with his bug , as he calls his transmitter, and looks at you expectantly.
  • * 1942 , Arthur Reinhold Nilson, Radio Code Manual , page 134:
  • As far as the dashes are concerned, the bug is the same in operation as any regular key would be if it were turned up on edge instead of sitting flat on the desk.
  • * 1986 , E. L. Doctorow, World's Fair , page 282:
  • I was a very good radio operator. I bought my own bug . That's what the telegraph key in its modern form was called. It was semiautomatic.
  • (obsolete) A bugbear; anything that terrifies.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Sir, spare your threats: / The bug which you would fright me with I seek.
  • HIV.
  • (poker) A limited form of wild card in some variants of poker.
  • Usage notes

    * Adjectives often applied to "bug": major, minor, serious, critical, nasty, annoying, important, strange, stupid, flying, silly.

    Synonyms

    * (An intercept device) wiretap * See also

    Derived terms

    * buglet * debug

    See also

    * Balmain bug * bedbug * bug-eyed * gold bug * lightning bug * mealybug * mirid bug * Morton Bay bug * shield bug * snug as a bug in a rug * travel bug * true bug

    Verb

  • (informal) To annoy.
  • Don’t bug me, I’m busy!
  • To install an electronic listening device or devices in.
  • We need to know what’s going on. We’ll bug his house.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * bug out

    See also

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    Anagrams

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    truck

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) truken, troken, trukien, from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.
  • To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.
  • To deceive; cheat; defraud.
  • Derived terms
    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Etymology 2

    Perhaps a shortening of (truckle), related to (etyl) .

    Noun

  • A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun-carriage.
  • * 1843 , James Fenimore Cooper, Wyandotte , Chapter 3
  • "Put that cannon up once, and I'll answer for it that no Injin faces it. 'Twill be as good as a dozen sentinels," answered Joel. "As for mountin', I thought of that before I said a syllable about the crittur. There's the new truck -wheels in the court, all ready to hold it, and the carpenters can put the hinder part to the whull, in an hour or two."
  • The ball on top of a flagpole.
  • (nautical) 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".
  • * 1851 Melville, Herman Moby Dick , Chapter 9.
  • But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep. Is not the main-truck higher than the kelson is low?
  • (countable, uncountable, US, Australia) A semi-tractor ("semi") trailer; (British) a lorry.
  • Mexican open-bed trucks haul most of the fresh produce that comes into the United States from Mexico.
  • * 1922 , Sinclair Lewis, Babbit , Chapter 1
  • A line of fifty trucks from the Zenith Steel and Machinery Company was attacked by strikers-rushing out from the sidewalk, pulling drivers from the seats, smashing carburetors and commutators, while telephone girls cheered from the walk, and small boys heaved bricks.
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  • 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 (obsolete) pulled by an animal, as with those in hotels for moving luggage, or in libraries for transporting books.
  • * Macaulay
  • Goods were conveyed about the town almost exclusively in trucks drawn by dogs.
  • *
  • From the doors of these rooms went men with loaded trucks , to the platform where freight cars were waiting to be filled; and one went out there and realized with a start that he had come at last to the ground floor of this enormous building.
  • A pantechnicon (removal van).
  • (UK, rail transport) A flatbed railway car.
  • * 1913 ,
  • Far away he could hear the sharp clinking of the trucks on the railway.
  • 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
  • * 1913 , D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
  • Far away he could hear the sharp clinking of the trucks on the railway. No, it was not they that were far away. They were there in their places. But where was he himself?''.
  • 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.
  • (theater) A platform with wheels or casters.
  • Dirt or other messiness.
  • * Aunt Polly looked at the jam on Huck's face, and said, "What is that truck ?"'' - , Huckleberry Finn
  • Synonyms
    * (motor vehicle for goods transport) rig, tractor trailer, lorry (UK), hauler
    Derived terms
    (terms derived from truck) * forklift truck * hand truck * monster truck * pick-up truck * pickup truck * sound truck * tow truck * truck stop, truckstop * (military) (dated) truck-wheels
    See also
    * (nautical, sailing) main-truck, crow's nest * (military) gun-carriage * (semi-tractor) semi, trailer truck, rig, monster truck
    Descendants
    * Malay: (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To drive a truck.
  • To convey by truck.
  • To travel or live contentedly.
  • Keep on trucking !
  • To persist, to endure.
  • Keep on trucking !
  • (film production) To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.
  • (slang) To run over or through a tackler in American football.
  • Derived terms
    * trucker * trucking

    Etymology 3

    From dialectal truck, truk, trokk, probably of (etyl) origin, compare (etyl) dialectal trokka, . More at (l).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down).
  • Etymology 4

    (etyl) trukien, from unrecorded (etyl) and (etyl) words (attested in mediaeval Latin trocare, present Spanish trocar), of origin.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To trade, exchange; barter.
  • * John Stuart Mill
  • We will begin by supposing the international trade to be in form, what it always is in reality, an actual trucking of one commodity against another.
  • To engage in commerce; to barter or deal.
  • *
  • To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, often used in plural sense) Small, humble items; things, often for sale or barter.
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  • (US) Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden).
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  • (usually, with negative) Social intercourse; dealings, relationships.
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  • Derived terms
    * have no truck with * truck garden

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Pertaining to a garden patch or truck garden.
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  • Usage notes
    For this etymology, the word is virtually obsolete. It really only survives as a fossil in the construction “to have no truck with”. In the US, the derived term truck garden is often confused with Etymology 1, in the sense "produce raised to be trucked to market''. ----