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fire | truck |

As nouns the difference between fire and truck

is that fire is the sector of the economy including finance, insurance and real estate businesses 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.

fire

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon or other fuel, with the production of heat and the presence of flame or smouldering.
  • (countable) Something that has produced or is capable of producing this chemical reaction, such as a campfire.
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  • (countable) The often accidental occurrence of fire in a certain place.
  • (uncountable, alchemy) One of the four basic elements.
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  • (countable, British) A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).
  • (countable) The elements necessary to start a fire.
  • (uncountable) The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun.
  • Strength of passion, whether love or hate.
  • * Atterbury
  • He had fire in his temper.
  • Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.
  • * (Alexander Pope)
  • And bless their critic with a poet's fire .
  • Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
  • Stars, hide your fires .
  • * (John Milton)
  • As in a zodiac representing the heavenly fires .
  • (countable) A button (on a joypad, joystick or similar device) usually used to make a video game character fire a weapon.
  • Derived terms

    * all-fire * add fuel to the fire * back fire * balefire * ball of fire * baptism of fire * bonfire * brush-fire * brush fire * bushfire * campfire * catch fire * ceasefire * covering fire * electric fire * fiery * fight fire with fire * fire alarm * fire and brimstone * fire away * firearm * fireball * fire bay * fire beater * fireblast * firebolt * firebomb * firebrand * firebreak * fire brigade * firebug * fireclay * fire company * firecracker * fire department * firedog * fire drill * fire eater * fire engine * fire escape * fire exit * fire extinguisher * fire-fight * firefight * firefighter * fire flapper * firefly * fireguard * fire hose * firehouse * fire hydrant * fire in the belly * firelighter * fireman * fireplace * fireplug * fireproof * fire resistant * fire retardant * fireshine * fire ship * fire station * fireside * fire sign * fire-starter * fire step * firestop * fire swab * fire swatter * fire teaser * fire trench * fire truck * fire up * firewire * firewoman * firewood * firework * forest fire * friendly fire * gas fire * grassfire * grass fire * Greek fire * hang fire * heap coals on fire * hold your fire * hold someone's feet to the fire * irons in the fire * light someone's fire * no smoke without fire * on fire * open fire * ordeal of fire * play with fire * Promethean fire * pull out of the fire * rapid fire * real fire * St Anthony's fire * St Elmo's fire * trial by fire

    Verb

    (fir)
  • (lb) To set (something) on fire.
  • * Chapter 20:
  • *:"Then I slipped up again with a box of matches, fired' my heap of paper and rubbish, put the chairs and bedding thereby, led the gas to the affair, by means of an india-rubber tube, and waving a farewell to the room left it for the last time." ¶ "You '''fired''' the house!" exclaimed Kemp. ¶ "' Fired the house. It was the only way to cover my trail—and no doubt it was insured."
  • *1907 , (Jack London), (The Iron Heel)
  • *:It was long a question of debate, whether the burning of the South Side ghetto was accidental, or whether it was done by the Mercenaries; but it is definitely settled now that the ghetto was fired by the Mercenaries under orders from their chiefs.
  • (lb) To heat without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.
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  • *:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired -in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
  • (lb) To drive away by setting a fire.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:Till my bad angel fire my good one out.
  • (lb) To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct or poor performance).
  • *1969 , (Vladimir Nabokov), , Penguin 2011, p.226:
  • *:The first, obvious choice was hysterical and fantastic Blanche – had there not been her timidity, her fear of being ‘fired ’.
  • (lb) To shoot (a device that launches a projectile or a pulse of stream of something).
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  • (lb) To shoot a gun, a cannon or a similar weapon.
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  • To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.
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  • To cause an action potential in a cell.
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  • (lb) To forcibly direct (something).
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  • To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).
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  • To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.
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  • *(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • *:Love had fired my mind.
  • To animate; to give life or spirit to.
  • :
  • To feed or serve the fire of.
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  • To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:[The sun] fires the proud tops of the eastern pines.
  • (lb) To cauterize.
  • To catch fire; to be kindled.
  • To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
  • Synonyms

    * (set on fire) See set on fire * (sense) let off, loose (archery), shoot, * (terminate the employment of) dismiss, be given one's cards, be given the boot]], be given the elbow, [[heave-ho, be given the old heave-ho, let go, make redundant, sack, throw out * (sense) open fire, shoot * See also

    Antonyms

    * (to terminate the employment) hire

    Derived terms

    * fire away * fire off * fire up * firing * overfired * ! * underfired * unfirable * you're fired

    Statistics

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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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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''. ----