Van vs Track - What's the difference?
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A (covered) vehicle used for carrying goods or people, usually roughly cuboid in shape, longer and higher than a car but smaller than a truck.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.}}
(British) A railway carriage.
(UK, dated) A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others for the transportation of goods.
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* 1667 , (John Milton),
* 1698 , Ned Ward, The London Spy
* 1965 , translated by Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan, '', book 4 ''Vir??a Parva , section 33, page 84:
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To transport in a van or similar vehicle (especially of horses).
* 1966 , United States Congress, Senate, Committee on Commerce:
* 1999 , Bonnie Bryant, Changing Leads , p. 53:
(mining) To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.
A fan or other contrivance, such as a sieve, for winnowing grain.
A wing with which the air is beaten.
* Milton
* Dryden
A mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel.
A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or beast; trace; vestige; footprint.
The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
A road; a beaten path.
Course; way; as, the track of a comet.
A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track . The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}
(railways) The permanent way; the rails.
A tract or area, as of land.
* Fuller
(automotive) The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree (also track width)
(automotive) Short for caterpillar track.
(cricket) The pitch.
Sound stored on a record.
The physical track on a record.
(music) A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short silence
Circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.
(uncountable, sports) The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.
A session talk on a conference.
To observe the (measured) state of an object over time
To monitor the movement of a person or object.
To discover the location of a person or object (usually in the form track down ).
To follow the tracks of.
To leave in the form of tracks.
As an abbreviation van
is .As a noun track is
a mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel.As a verb track is
to observe the (measured) state of an object over time.van
English
Etymology 1
Short for caravan.Noun
(en noun)Paradise Lost, book 5, lines 588–590:
- Ten thousand thousand Ensignes high advanc'd, / Standards, and Gonfalons twixt Van and Reare / Streame in the Aire, and for distinction serve
- Then a bumper to the Queen led the van of our good wishes, another to the Church Established, a third was left to the whim of the toaster
- Bh??ma then outlined the following strategy: “… Let Kar?a, clad in armour, stand in the van . And I shall command the entire army in the rear.”
Derived terms
* detector van * divvy van * driving van trailer * goods van * panel van * * white van manSee also
* lorry * transit (UK) * truckVerb
(vann)- I have to have a license to own them, a license to train them, my jockey has to have a license to ride them, the van company must have a license to van them, and the black shoe man must have a license to shoe them.
- [They] had their own horses, but they hadn't bothered to van them over to Pine Hollow for this outing.
Etymology 2
(etyl)Verb
(vann)- (Raymond)
Etymology 3
(etyl) (lena) : compare (etyl) van and English (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)- So Satan fell; and strait a fiery globe / Of Angels on full sail of wing flew nigh, / Who on their plumy vans receiv'd him soft
- He wheeled in air, and stretched his vans' in vain; / His ' vans no longer could his flight sustain.
Anagrams
* ----track
English
Noun
(en noun)- small tracks of ground
Synonyms
* (mark left by something that has passed along) trace, trail, wake * (mark or impression left by the foot) footprint * (entire lower surface of the foot) * path, road, way * (course) course, path, trajectory, way * course, racetrack * (the permanent way) rails, railway, train tracks, tracks * (tract or area) area, parcel, region, tract * (distance between two opposite wheels) track width * ground, pitch * (sound stored on a record) recording * (physical track on a record) groove * (circular data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk) * (track and field) athletics, track and fieldDerived terms
* * album track * beaten track * fast track * half-track * half-tracker * lose track * mid-track * mommy track * off the beaten track * on the right track * on track * one-track mind * railroad track * railway track * reserved track * tenure-track * title track * track and field * trackball * track-mounted * trackpad * track record * track spike * track width * train track * tram trackSee also
* path * trailVerb
(en verb)- My uncle spent all day tracking the deer.
- In winter, my cat tracks mud all over the house.