Sad vs. Truck
Sad vs. Truck
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Sad
Term A(heading) Emotionally negative.
Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.
Example: ‘She gets sad when he's away.’;
Appearing sorrowful.
Example: ‘The puppy had a sad little face.’;
Causing sorrow; lamentable.
Example: ‘It's a sad fact that most rapes go unreported.’;
Poor in quality, bad; shameful, deplorable; later, regrettable, poor.
Example: ‘That's the saddest-looking pickup truck I've ever seen.’;
Of colours: dark, deep; later, sombre, dull.
(obsolete) Sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary.
(obsolete) Steadfast, valiant.
(obsolete) Dignified, serious, grave.
(obsolete) Naughty; troublesome; wicked.
(slang) Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable.
Example: ‘I can't believe you use drugs; you're so sad!’;
(dialect) Soggy (to refer to pastries).
(obsolete) Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard.
Example: ‘sad bread’;
Sated; satisfied; weary; tired.
Example: ‘Yet of that art they can not waxen sad,For unto them it is a bitter sweet.’;
Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard.
Example: ‘His hand, more sad than lump of lead.’; ‘Chalky lands are naturally cold and sad.’;
Dull; grave; dark; somber; - said of colors.
Example: ‘Woad, or wade, is used by the dyers to lay the foundation of all sad colors.’;
Serious; grave; sober; steadfast; not light or frivolous.
Example: ‘Lady Catharine, a sad and religious woman.’; ‘Which treaty was wisely handled by sad and discrete counsel of both parties.’;
Affected with grief or unhappiness; cast down with affliction; downcast; gloomy; mournful.
Example: ‘First were we sad, fearing you would not come;Now sadder, that you come so unprovided.’; ‘The angelic guards ascended, mute and sad.’;
Afflictive; calamitous; causing sorrow; as, a sad accident; a sad misfortune.
Hence, bad; naughty; troublesome; wicked.
To make sorrowful; to sadden.
Example: ‘How it sadded the minister's spirits!’;
Seasonal affective disorder.
experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness;
Example: ‘feeling sad because his dog had died’; ‘Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad’;
of things that make you feel sad;
Example: ‘sad news’; ‘she doesn't like sad movies’; ‘it was a very sad story’; ‘When I am dead, my dearest, / Sing no sad songs for me’;
bad; unfortunate;
Example: ‘my finances were in a deplorable state’; ‘a lamentable decision’; ‘her clothes were in sad shape’; ‘a sorry state of affairs’;
feeling or showing sorrow; unhappy
Example: ‘they looked at her with sad, anxious faces’; ‘I was sad and subdued’;
causing or characterized by sorrow or regret; unfortunate and regrettable
Example: ‘a sad day for us all’; ‘he told her the sad story of his life’;
pathetically inadequate or unfashionable
Example: ‘the show is tongue-in-cheek—anyone who takes it seriously is a bit sad’;
(of dough) heavy through having failed to rise.
Truck
Term BA small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun-carriage.
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".
A semi-tractor ("semi") trailer; (British) a lorry.
Example: ‘Mexican open-bed trucks haul most of the fresh produce that comes into the United States from Mexico.’;
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.
A pantechnicon (removal van).
A flatbed railway car.
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
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.
Small, humble items; things, often for sale or barter.
(historical) The practice of paying workers in kind, or with tokens only exchangeable at a shop owned by the employer [forbidden in the 19th century by the Truck Acts]
(US) Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden).
Social intercourse; dealings, relationships.
(intransitive) To drive a truck: Generally a truck driver's slang.
(transitive) To convey by truck.
Example: ‘Last week, Cletus trucked 100 pounds of lumber up to Dubuque.’;
To travel or live contentedly.
Example: ‘Keep on trucking!’;
To persist, to endure.
Example: ‘Keep on trucking!’;
To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.
To fight or otherwise physically engage with.
To run over or through a tackler in American football.
To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.
To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.
To deceive; cheat; defraud.
To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down).
(transitive) To trade, exchange; barter.
(intransitive) To engage in commerce; to barter or deal.
(intransitive) To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.
Pertaining to a garden patch or truck garden.
A small wheel, as of a vehicle; specifically (Ord.), a small strong wheel, as of wood or iron, for a gun carriage.
A low, wheeled vehicle or barrow for carrying goods, stone, and other heavy articles.
Example: ‘Goods were conveyed about the town almost exclusively in trucks drawn by dogs.’;
A swiveling carriage, consisting of a frame with one or more pairs of wheels and the necessary boxes, springs, etc., to carry and guide one end of a locomotive or a car; - sometimes called bogie in England. Trucks usually have four or six wheels.
A small wooden cap at the summit of a flagstaff or a masthead, having holes in it for reeving halyards through.
A freight car.
A frame on low wheels or rollers; - used for various purposes, as for a movable support for heavy bodies.
a motorized vehicle larger than an automobile with a compartment in front for the driver, behind which is a separate compartment for freight;
Exchange of commodities; barter.
Commodities appropriate for barter, or for small trade; small commodities; esp., in the United States, garden vegetables raised for the market.
The practice of paying wages in goods instead of money; - called also truck system.
To transport on a truck or trucks.
To exchange; to give in exchange; to barter; as, to truck knives for gold dust.
Example: ‘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 exchange commodities; to barter; to trade; to deal.
Example: ‘A master of a ship, who deceived them under color of trucking with them.’; ‘Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster.’; ‘To truck and higgle for a private good.’;
an automotive vehicle suitable for hauling
a handcart that has a frame with two low wheels and a ledge at the bottom and handles at the top; used to move crates or other heavy objects
convey (goods etc.) by truck;
Example: ‘truck fresh vegetables across the mountains’;
a large, heavy road vehicle used for carrying goods, materials, or troops; a lorry.
a railway vehicle for carrying freight, especially a small open one.
a low flat-topped trolley used for moving heavy items.
a railway bogie.
each of two axle units on a skateboard, to which the wheels are attached.
a wooden disc at the top of a ship's mast or flagstaff, with holes for halyards to slide through.
barter.
the payment of workers in kind or with vouchers rather than money.
small wares.
odds and ends.
market-garden produce, especially vegetables
Example: ‘a truck garden’;
convey by truck
Example: ‘the food was trucked to St Petersburg’;
drive a truck
Example: ‘private contractors were trucking for Denali’;
go or proceed in a casual or leisurely way
Example: ‘my mate walked confidently behind them and trucked on through!’;
barter or exchange.
A truck or lorry is a motor vehicle designed to transport cargo, carry specialized payloads, or perform other utilitarian work. Trucks vary greatly in size, power, and configuration, but the vast majority feature body-on-frame construction, with a cabin that is independent of the payload portion of the vehicle.
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