Truck Definition–noun | 1. | any of various forms of vehicle for carrying goods and materials, usually consisting of a single self-propelled unit but also often composed of a trailer vehicle hauled by a tractor unit. |
| 2. | any of various wheeled frames used for transporting heavy objects. |
| 3. | Also called hand truck. a barrowlike frame with low wheels, a ledge at the bottom, and handles at the top, used to move heavy luggage, packages, cartons, etc. |
| 4. | a low, rectangular frame on which heavy boxes, crates, trunks, etc., are moved; a dolly. |
| 5. | a tiered framework on casters. |
| 6. | a group of two or more pairs of wheels in one frame, for supporting one end of a railroad car, locomotive, etc. |
| 7. | Movies. a dolly on which a camera is mounted. |
| 8. | British. a freight car having no top. |
| 9. | a small wooden wheel, cylinder, or roller, as on certain old-style gun carriages. |
| 10. | Nautical. a circular or square piece of wood fixed on the head of a mast or the top of a flagstaff, usually containing small holes for signal halyards. |
–verb (used with object) | 11. | to transport by truck. |
–verb (used without object) | 14. | to convey articles or goods on a truck. |
–adjective | 17. | of, pertaining to, or for
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Driving Definition–adjective | 1. | demanding a high or unreasonable rate of work from subordinates. |
| 2. | vigorously active; energetic: a driving young executive. |
| 3. | having force and violence: a driving storm. |
| 4. | relaying or transmitting power. |
| 5. | used while operating a vehicle: driving gloves. |
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School Definition–noun | 1. | an institution where instruction is given, esp. to persons under college age: The children are at school. |
| 2. | an institution for instruction in a particular skill or field. |
| 3. | a college or university. |
| 4. | a re
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gular course of meetings of a teacher or teachers and students for instruction; program of instruction: summer school. |
| 5. | a session of such a course: no school today; to be kept after school. |
| 6. | the activity or process of learning under instruction, esp. at a school for the young: As a child, I never liked school. |
| 7. | one's formal education: They plan to be married when he finishes school. |
| 8. | a building housing a school. |
| 9. | the body of students, or students and teachers, belonging to an educational institution: The entire school rose when the principal entered the auditorium. |
| 10. | a building, room, etc., in a university, set apart for the use of one of the faculties or for some particular purpose: the school of agriculture. |
| 11. | a particular faculty or department of a university having the right to recommend candidates for degrees, and usually beginning its program of instruction after the student has completed general education: medical school. |
| 12. | any place, situation, etc., tending to teach anything. |
| 13. | the body of pupils or followers of a master, system, method, etc.: the Platonic school of philosophy. |
| 14. | Art. | a. | a group of artists, as painters, writers, or musicians, whose works reflect a common conceptual, regional, or personal influence: the modern school; the Florentine school. |
| b. | the art and artists of a geographical location considered independently of stylistic similarity: the French school. |
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| 15. | any group of persons having common attitudes or beliefs. |
| 16. | Military, Navy. parts of close-order drill applying to the individual (school of the soldier), the squad (school of the squad), or the like. |
| 17. | Australian and New Zealand Informal. a group of people gathered together, esp. for gambling or drinking. |
| 18. | schools, Archaic. the faculties of a university. |
| 19. | Obsolete. the schoolmen in a medieval university. |
–adjective | 20. | of or connected with a school or schools. |
| 21. | Obsolete. of the schoolmen. |
–verb (used with object) | 22. | to educate in or as if in
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| 23. | Archaic. to reprimand. |
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