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hair | truck |

As verbs the difference between hair and truck

is that hair is to hate while 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 a noun 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 an adjective truck is

pertaining to a garden patch or truck garden.

hair

English

(wikipedia hair)

Noun

(but usually in singular)
  • (label) A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.
  • *(rfdate) (Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400):
  • *:Then read he me how Sampson lost his hairs .
  • *(rfdate) (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599):
  • *:And draweth new delights with hoary hairs .
  • (label) The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole body.
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  • *1900 , , Chapter I:
  • *:Her abundant hair , of a dark and glossy brown, was neatly plaited and coiled above an ivory column that rose straight from a pair of gently sloping shoulders, clearly outlined beneath the light muslin frock that covered them.
  • A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.
  • A cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated.
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  • (label) Haircloth; a hair shirt.
  • * (Geoffrey Chaucer), "The Second Nun's Tale", (The Canterbury Tales) :
  • *:She, ful devout and humble in hir corage, / Under hir robe of gold, that sat ful faire, / Hadde next hir flessh yclad hir in an haire .
  • *:
  • *:Thenne vpon the morne whanne the good man had songe his masse / thenne they buryed the dede man / Thenne syr launcelot sayd / fader what shalle I do / Now sayd the good man / I requyre yow take this hayre that was this holy mans and putte it nexte thy skynne / and it shalle preuaylle the gretely
  • (label) Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
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  • Usage notes

    The word hair is usually used without article in singular number when it refers to all the hairs on one's head in general. But if it refers to more than one hair, a few hairs, then it takes the plural form without an article, and needs a plural verb. : George has (-') brown hair, but I found '''a''' hair on the sofa and suspect he's getting some gray hair' s . : George's hair is'' brown, but ''one'' hair I found ''was'' grey, so I think there ''are'' probably more grey ''hairs on his head as well. Adjectives often applied to "hair": long, short, curly, straight, dark, blonde, black, brown, red, blue, green, purple, coarse, fine, healthy, damaged, beautiful, perfect, natural, dyed.

    Derived terms

    * against the hair * bad hair day * bed hair * curl someone's hair * facial hair * fair-haired * get in somebody's hair * hair bracket * hairbreadth, hairsbreadth * hair brush, hairbrush * haircare, hair care * hair cells * hair-curling * haircut * hairdo * hairdresser * hair dryer * hair dye * hair gel * hair glove * hair lace * hairless * hair line, hairline * hair moss * hair moth * hairnet * hair of the dog * hair pencil * hairpiece * hairpin * hair plate * hair powder * hair-raising * hair seal * hair seating * hair shirt * hair sieve * hair snake * hair space * hairspray, hair spray * hair stroke * hairstyle * hair-trigger * hairy * head of hair * hide nor hair, neither hide nor hair * horsehair * keep your hair on * let one's hair down * make somebody's hair curl * make somebody's hair stand on end * not turn a hair * not worth a hair * part one's hair * pubic hair * put hair on somebody's chest * split hairs * tear one's hair out * to a hair

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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''. ----