Semi vs Lorry - What's the difference?
semi | lorry |
(UK, Australia, Canada) A semi-detached house.
* 2008 , Elliott Placks, quoted in Helen Isbister, Morris Bryant, Property , Career FAQs, Australia,
* 2008 , Barry Goodchild, Homes, Cities and Neighbourhoods: Planning and the Residential Landscapes of Modern Britain ,
A semitrailer; a tractor-trailer; an eighteen-wheeler.
* 2011 , Eamonn Duff, Schapelle Corby: The Untold Story Behind Her Ill-Fated Drug Run , Allen & Unwin, Australia,
A semifinal.
(slang) A partial erection.
* 2010 , Mickey Erlach, Video Boys (page 158)
(British) A motor vehicle for transporting goods; a truck.
(obsolete) A large low horse-drawn wagon.
(dated) A small cart or wagon, as used on the tramways in mines to carry coal or rubbish.
(dated) A barrow or truck for shifting baggage, as at railway stations.
To soil, dirty, bespatter with mud or the like.
As nouns the difference between semi and lorry
is that semi is (uk|australia|canada) a semi-detached house while lorry is (british) a motor vehicle for transporting goods; a truck.As a verb lorry is
to soil, dirty, bespatter with mud or the like.semi
English
(wikipedia semi)Noun
(en noun)page 40,
- I?m selling two side-by-side semis that are currently under construction, a waterfront apartment and a house in Rose Bay.
page 52,
- The smaller semis of the 1920s and 1930s were closely related to the three bedroom pre-1919 narrow fronted terraces, at least to the larger pre-1919 terraces.
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- All night we couldn?t hear each other speak because of the sound of semis changing gear to get over the hill.
- The twink got a semi just from that look.
