Used Definition–adjective | 1. | previously used or owned; secondhand: a used car. | | 2. | showing wear or being worn out. | | 3. | employed for a purpose; utilized. | —Idiom | 4. | used to, accustomed or habituated to: I'm not used to cold weather. They weren't used to getting up so early. | |
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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. | | 15. | to dr
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