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In lang=en terms the difference between tree and truck

is that tree is to place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree while truck is to have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.

As nouns the difference between tree and truck

is that tree is a large plant, not exactly defined, but typically over four meters in height, a single trunk which grows in girth with age and branches (which also grow in circumference with age) 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 verbs the difference between tree and truck

is that tree is to chase (an animal or person) up a tree 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 an adjective truck is

pertaining to a garden patch or truck garden.

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Noun

(en-noun) (plural "treen" is obsolete)
  • A large plant, not exactly defined, but typically over four meters in height, a single trunk which grows in girth with age and branches (which also grow in circumference with age).
  • is the tallest living tree in the world.
    Birds have a nest in a tree in the garden.
  • Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree in the strict botanical sense: for example the banana "tree".
  • An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks]] or storage [[platform, platforms.
  • He had the choice of buying a scratching post or a cat tree .
  • A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
  • He put a shoe tree in each of his shoes.
  • The structural frame of a saddle.
  • (graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, equivalently, a connected graph with n'' vertices and ''n -1 edges.
  • (computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children.
  • (graphical user interface) A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.
  • We’ll show it as a tree list.
  • Any structure or construct having branches akin to (1).
  • The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
  • (informal) Marijuana.
  • (obsolete) A cross or gallows.
  • Tyburn tree
  • * Bible, Acts x. 39
  • [Jesus] whom they slew and hanged on a tree .
  • (obsolete) wood; timber
  • * Wyclif Bible (2 Tim. ii. 20)
  • In a great house ben not only vessels of gold and of silver but also of tree and of earth.
  • (chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.
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    Proverbs

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    Hypernyms

    * plant * (in graph theory) graph

    Hyponyms

    * oak, fir, pine * see also:

    Synonyms

    * sapling, seedling

    See also

    * * arboreal

    Verb

    (d)
  • To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
  • The dog treed the cat.
  • To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree.
  • to tree a boot

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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''. ----