Van

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An enclosed boxlike motor vehicle having rear or side doors and side panels especially for transporting people.
  • n. A covered or enclosed truck or wagon often used for transporting goods or livestock.
  • n. Chiefly British A closed railroad car used for carrying baggage or freight.
  • v. To transport by van: vanned the horses to the racetrack.
  • verb-intransitive. To drive or travel in a van: vanned around the country.
  • n. The vanguard; the forefront.
  • n. A wing.
  • n. Archaic A winnowing device, such as a fan.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. 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
  • n. a railway carriage
  • n. shortened form of vanguard
  • n. shortened form of caravan
  • v. To transport in a van or similar vehicle (especially of horses).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The front of an army; the first line or leading column; also, the front line or foremost division of a fleet, either in sailing or in battle.
  • n. A shovel used in cleansing ore.
  • v. To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.
  • n. A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others for the transportation of goods.
  • n. A large covered wagon for moving furniture, etc., also for conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition.
  • n. A closed railway car for baggage. See the Note under Car, 2.
  • n. A fan or other contrivance, as a sieve, for winnowing grain.
  • n. A wing with which the air is beaten.
  • v. To fan, or to cleanse by fanning; to winnow.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The small store in a logging-camp in which clothing, tobacco, and medicine are kept, to supply the crew.
  • n. A fan or other contrivance for winnowing grain.
  • n. [⟨ van, verb] In mining, a test of the value of an ore, made by washing (vanning) a small quantity, after powdering it, on the point of a shovel. Vanning is to a Cornish miner what washing in the horn spoon is to the Mexican. See van, verb, 2.
  • n. A vane, as of a feather; hence, a wing.
  • To winnow; fan.
  • In mining, to separate, as ore from veinstone, by washing it on the point of a shovel. See van, n., 2, and vanner.
  • n. The foremost division of an army on the march, or of a fleet when sailing; hence, by extension, the front of an army when in line of battle: opposed to rear.
  • n. The leaders of any movement in which many are engaged; the foremost individuals of any moving body; the front of any advancing body; the front generally: literally or figuratively.
  • n. Any large covered carriage; specifically, a large covered wagon used in moving furniture and household effects.
  • n. A kind of vehicle, sometimes covered and sometimes open, used by tradesmen and others for carrying light goods, etc.
  • n. A close carriage attached to a railway-train, for carrying passengers' luggage, for the accommodation of the guard, etc.
  • To carry or transport in a van.
  • A shortened form of avant-.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (Great Britain) a closed railroad car that carries baggage or freight
  • n. a truck with an enclosed cargo space
  • n. the leading units moving at the head of an army
  • n. a camper equipped with living quarters
  • n. any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Cross Reference
    front    vanning jig    truck    transit    lorry   
    Variant
    car   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    winnow   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    An    Ann    Anne    Ariane    Bhutan    Bran    Caen    Can    Cannes    Chan   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Lorry    sedan    pickups    truck    camper    automobile    bus    Jeep    ambulance    taxi