Van vs Cart - 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 small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, more often used for transporting goods than passengers.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.}}
A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart.
To carry goods.
To carry or convey in a cart.
(obsolete) To expose in a cart by way of punishment.
* Prior
(video games, informal) A cartridge for a video game system.
As an abbreviation van
is .As a noun cart is
to split, kill, put (to death).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
* ----cart
English
(wikipedia cart)Etymology 1
Probably from Old English .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* cartwheel * dogcart * go-cart * golf cart * luggage cart * oxcart * pushcart * put the cart before the horse * shopping cartVerb
(en verb)- I've been carting these things around all day .
- She chuckled when a bawd was carted .
References
Etymology 2
Shortened from (cartridge).Noun
(en noun)- My ''Final Fantasy'' cart on the NES is still alive and kicking.