Van vs Vehicle - 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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(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 conveyance; a device for carrying or transporting substances, objects or individuals.
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A liquid content (e.g. oil) which acts as a binding and drying agent in paint. (FM 55-501).
An entity to achieve an end.
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, title= (Buddhism) A mode or method of spiritual practice; a yana.
(Hinduism) An animal or (rarely) a plant on which a Hindu deity rides or sits
As an abbreviation van
is .As a noun vehicle is
a conveyance; a device for carrying or transporting substances, objects or individuals.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
* ----vehicle
English
(wikipedia vehicle)Noun
(en noun)Internal Combustion, chapter=1 , passage=But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.}}
High and wet, passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.
Ed Pilkington
‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told, passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}