Rig vs Truck - What's the difference?
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(slang, nautical) The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.
Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose.
* The climbers each had a different rig for climbing that particular rockface.
(US) A large truck such as a semi-tractor.
* Every rig at the truckstop had custom-made mud-flaps.
The special apparatus used for drilling wells.
(informal) A costume or an outfit.
* My sister and I always made our own rigs for Halloween.
(slang, computing) A computer case, often modified for looks.
* 2004 , Radford Castro, Let Me Play: Stories of Gaming and Emulation (page 104)
An imperfectly castrated horse, sheep etc.
(slang) Radio]] equipment, especially a [[CB radio, citizen's band transceiver.
To fit out with a harness or other equipment.
(nautical) To equip and fit (a ship) with sails, shrouds, and yards.
(informal) To dress or clothe in some costume.
To make or construct something in haste or in a makeshift manner.
To manipulate something dishonestly for personal gain or discriminatory purposes.
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, title= (obsolete) To play the wanton; to act in an unbecoming manner; to play tricks.
* 1616 , (George Chapman), The Hymn to (Hermes), in ''The Whole Works of (Homer) (tr.),
(obsolete) To make free with; hence, to steal; to pilfer.
(obsolete) A wanton; one given to unbecoming conduct.
(obsolete) A sportive or unbecoming trick; a frolic.
* Cowper
(obsolete) A blast of wind.
* Burke
To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.
To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.
To deceive; cheat; defraud.
A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun-carriage.
* 1843 , James Fenimore Cooper, Wyandotte ,
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".
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(countable, uncountable, US, Australia) A semi-tractor ("semi") trailer; (British) a lorry.
* 1922 , Sinclair Lewis, Babbit ,
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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.
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A pantechnicon (removal van).
(UK, rail transport) A flatbed railway car.
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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,
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
To drive a truck.
To convey by truck.
To travel or live contentedly.
To persist, to endure.
(film production) To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.
(slang) To run over or through a tackler in American football.
To trade, exchange; barter.
* John Stuart Mill
To engage in commerce; to barter or deal.
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To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.
(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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Pertaining to a garden patch or truck garden.
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Truck is a synonym of rig.
In us terms the difference between rig and truck
is that rig is a large truck such as a semi-tractor while truck is garden produce, groceries (see truck garden).In transitive terms the difference between rig and truck
is that rig is to manipulate something dishonestly for personal gain or discriminatory purposes while truck is to trade, exchange; barter.In obsolete terms the difference between rig and truck
is that rig is a blast of wind while truck is 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.As an adjective truck is
pertaining to a garden patch or truck garden.rig
English
(wikipedia rig)Etymology 1
Probably of Scandinavian origin. Compare Norwegian .Noun
(en noun)- When I saw a special version of Quake running on Voodoo hardware, I knew I would be forking out quite a bit of money on my gaming rig .
Verb
Cronies and capitols, passage=Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult.
- Rigging and rifling all ways, and no noise / Made with thy soft feet, where it all destroys.
- (Tusser)
Etymology 2
See ridge.Etymology 3
Compare wriggle.Noun
(en noun)- (Fuller)
- He little dreamt when he set out / Of running such a rig .
- that uncertain season before the rigs of Michaelmas were yet well composed.
- (Wright)
Anagrams
* ----truck
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) truken, troken, trukien, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)Etymology 2
Perhaps a shortening of (truckle), related to (etyl) .Noun
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."
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?
- Mexican open-bed trucks haul most of the fresh produce that comes into the United States from Mexico.
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.
- 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.
- Far away he could hear the sharp clinking of the trucks on the railway.
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?''.
Synonyms
* (motor vehicle for goods transport) rig, tractor trailer, lorry (UK), haulerDerived 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-wheelsSee also
* (nautical, sailing) main-truck, crow's nest * (military) gun-carriage * (semi-tractor) semi, trailer truck, rig, monster truckDescendants
* Malay: (l)Verb
(en verb)- Keep on trucking !
- Keep on trucking !
Derived terms
* trucker * truckingEtymology 3
From dialectal truck, truk, trokk, probably of (etyl) origin, compare (etyl) dialectal trokka, . More at (l).Etymology 4
(etyl) trukien, from unrecorded (etyl) and (etyl) words (attested in mediaeval Latin trocare, present Spanish trocar), of origin.Verb
(en verb)- 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.