English Dictionary

truck

IPA（発音記号）

/tɹʌk/

名詞

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A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage. / The ball on top of a flagpole.

日本語の意味

（銃台の）小型の車輪またはローラー / 旗竿の上に取り付けられた球体

The sailor carefully oiled the truck before the antique cannon was fired.

船員は古い大砲を発射する前に、砲架の小さな車輪に注意深く油を差した。

意味（1）

A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.

“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.”

意味（2）

The ball on top of a flagpole.

意味（3）

(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".

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?

意味（4）

(countable, uncountable, US, Australia) A heavier motor vehicle designed to carry goods or to pull a semi-trailer designed to carry goods.

Mexican open-bed trucks haul most of the fresh produce that comes into the United States from Mexico.

意味（5）

(road transport, Singapore, Malaysia) A lorry with a closed or covered carriage.

意味（6）

(UK, rail transport) A railroad car, chiefly one designed to carry goods

意味（7）

Any smaller wagon/cart or vehicle of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or (obsolete) pulled by an animal, used to move and sometimes lift goods, like those in hotels for moving luggage or in libraries for moving books.

Goods were therefore conveyed about the town almost exclusively in trucks drawn by dogs.

意味（8）

(US, rail transport) Abbreviation of railroad truck or wheel truck; 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.

意味（9）

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.

意味（10）

(theater) A platform with wheels or casters.

意味（11）

Dirt or other messiness.

Nothing! Look at your hands. And look at your mouth. What is that truck?

trucks （ plural ）