I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a delivery truck ( also delivery van British English )
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Just then a delivery truck stopped outside.
a taxi/bus/truck etc driver
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Car drivers face a new daily charge to enter the capital.
a truck/vehicle convoy
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The troops' truck convoy was travelling along the edge of the desert.
breakdown truck
cattle truck
diesel car/truck etc
dump truck
dumper truck
fire truck
fork-lift truck
garbage truck
panel truck
pick-up truck
salt truck
truck farm
truck stop
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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It drew her to a big yellow truck , where a dark scarf of smoke tugged across the pavement.
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The next night a big truck pulled into the overgrown pecan orchard behind the house.
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We haven't got enough room to manoevre these big trucks .
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Lots of big white trucks out there.
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There were dinosaurs painted in lurid green and red, and two big yellow Tonka trucks .
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A big shiny pickup truck crammed with men in base-ball caps slowed down and took a look at me.
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Some late night joy-riding fool of a soldier ripping up the beach with his big truck tyres?
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Here the big trucks roared, wham, and inside two minutes one of them cranked to a stop for me.
flatbed
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They came with two flatbed trucks and they emptied the apartment.
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Several at the scene said low flatbed trucks had been stuck at the crossing in the past.
heavy
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It would add 60 plus heavy trucks to the traffic for the five years plus of the construction.
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Even heavy trucks and buses are prohibited; they are confined to the Shenandoah Valley on the opposite side of the mountains.
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Fire officials said they believe the blaze originated in the destroyed heavy rescue squad truck but had not pinpointed a cause Friday.
light
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The blaze of light behind the trucks washed out all detail.
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Today, nearly one of every two vehicles is a light truck .
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Put brightly colored warning labels on new airbag-equipped cars and light trucks beginning in 90 days.
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Most of the 624, 929 automobiles and 97, 041 light trucks in the area will pass the test.
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Consider: -- Yesterday, Ford announced $ 600 rebates on nearly every car and light truck it sells.
old
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What for example is the market value of a three-year old mainframe computer, or a seven-year old fork-lift truck ?
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Terry and Ponzo came back and we rattled off in the old truck to meet Rickey.
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At least that humiliating old truck would not be parked outside her door when the girls arrived.
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He gave a little wave to a man sitting on the bumper of an old Ford truck .
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Four old panel trucks sit shoulder to shoulder, looking like an art installation.
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Edward allegedly was repairing an old truck in a field near the woods.
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His old black truck shimmied as it backed into the Fermoyles' driveway.
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We sat in the old truck , cursing.
small
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In half an hour only one small truck passed, a satellite dish rocking in the back.
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The Ford-Madza plant, to be located about 120 miles southeast of Bangkok, will produce mostly small pickup trucks .
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These new owners transport the women in small trucks or cars to the border with Bosnia.
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Certainly, small pickup trucks are similar in some respects to station wagons.
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The Marines had sent her off in a small wooden-bedded truck that seemed to have no springs or shock-absorbers whatsoever.
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Leese had called operations on the way in, and they sent a small truck to pick us up.
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The occasional small truck rumbled along the riverside going towards the central market.
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A dispatcher for a small fleet of trucks , he found it hard not to get rattled when the calls piled up.
■ NOUN
bomb
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This, investigators say, links him to the truck bomb blast.
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It withdrew shortly after 241 marines were killed in a single truck bomb attack on their barracks.
delivery
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What better way to transport escapees south than in the delivery trucks ?
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A few weeks back, one of her delivery trucks got broadsided outside the restaurant.
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They were slow, unglamorous, seagoing delivery trucks , but they were also ideal as electronic snoopers.
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They settled in San Diego, where Swensson drove a bread delivery truck .
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Many of you ate behind the wheel of your car or delivery truck .
diesel
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Huge, ancient diesel trucks lumbered through the crowd between tractors and horse-drawn carts.
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I remember hot, still electric-storm afternoons when jackrabbits ran under Diesel truck wheels.
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Because many diesel trucks travel across state lines and are registered outside Arizona, they are harder to regulate than gasoline-powered vehicles.
driver
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At first glance, he resembled a truck driver , or perhaps a mercenary soldier.
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Fork truck driver not looking where going. 24.
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Also patron of bachelors, bus drivers , motorists, travelers, truck drivers; he is invoked against nightmares.
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That truck driver tried to kill us - and he knew where to locate us exactly.
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Elvis Presley was a truck driver .
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The truck driver leaned out the window and asked where they wanted their ocean.
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When I go home I have a job as a truck driver .
dump
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The recession has taken its toll of lorries, dump trucks and commercial reps' company cars.
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Landfills had filled, and there was nowhere to dump the dump trucks .
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The city crews started downtown, clearing the streets and salting them and loading snow into dump trucks .
fire
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A fire truck or an ambulance whoops somewhere beyond the window, adding cruelly to my unease.
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Outside my window, fire trucks whine, up Eighth Avenue.
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The entire park had taken on an eerie red glow from the flashing sirens of the half dozen fire trucks parked alongside.
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In fact, Mr and Mrs Claus are slated to arrive via fire truck to meet their vast sea of little fans.
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The longer ambulance response is somewhat offset by having paramedics assigned to all fire trucks , Meoli said.
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But when I came to retrieve her, my way was blocked by paramedics and fire trucks .
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He and his neighbors bought a fire truck to protect their area, but the neighbors got cold feet.
garbage
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Put a David Smith out for the garbage truck to haul off?
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At Twentieth and Blake he saw a man swabbing a garbage truck .
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The threat is as if a garbage truck had overturned and dumped wilted intellectual lettuce on bystanders.
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Sunlight coming through a nearby window or the sound of an early morning garbage truck can disturb a light sleeper.
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And putting it in an alley can cause garbage trucks to sink up to their axles.
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So he bought this old Dodge and washed it Howard stared at the garbage truck cruising slowly down the street.
lift
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They'd had a huge fork lift truck on the roof where they stored materials.
pickup
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Banker says no pickup truck or tractor.
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The driver of a pickup truck crossed the center line and struck us head-on.
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A pickup truck with a plow rolled by, driven by a long-haired man and his little boy.
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Among the trees on the road far below, he made out a yellow pickup truck .
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Cook agreed happily, but only if he could follow the bus in his pickup truck .
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A man beside a pickup truck was standing alongside the road, twirling a radio antenna.
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A fourth said he ran over the cat with a pickup truck .
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In the front, on another video screen, three well-built specimens cavorted on the tailgate of a pickup truck .
stop
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We took the Neche-Pembina exit into a truck stop .
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But he was walking to a truck stop across the street, probably getting something to eat during his break.
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Actually, he met her at a truck stop where she was a runaway.
■ VERB
buy
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More commonly, the partners sold it when the driver had enough money to buy a truck of his own.
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Then we got bigger ideas and bought our truck .
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He had sold all his sheep and bought a truck , and was trying to convince others that they should follow suit.
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He and his neighbors bought a fire truck to protect their area, but the neighbors got cold feet.
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To combat fires, they buy more fire trucks .
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They bought a truck and proceeded to drum up business.
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Half the Marinites out there are on the phone, and nowadays these people buy giant designer trucks .
drive
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You're way too smart to be driving a truck .
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Bruce drove the truck behind us.
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Not to mention three more years of driving a truck .
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I drive a truck , I enjoy skiing and camping and that's about it.
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Her husband drove a truck , ferrying cotton workers from the highlands down to the coast and back.
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Personally, I drive a pick-up truck .
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One night he was driving a truck when he saw a girl and stopped.
load
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We loaded the trucks up again and at 5.00 am on 27 December 1984, we left.
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She tested a couple aluminum bats as the equipment was loaded into trucks .
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When the first container was loaded on to a truck it was so heavy all four tyres promptly exploded.
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The sirens went off, and we were loaded into trucks and told we were going out there as a reaction force.
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And his foreman makes sure the containers are loaded on to the trucks and dumped over the border.
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The boat broke up and Roman used the lumber to make a ramp to load hogs on the truck .
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Crews are compressing, baling and then loading the tires on to trucks for a six-hour drive to an Arizona recycler.
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She watched her husband and a Home of Guiding Hands work crew carry out their other belongings and load them into trucks .
park
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The chatter of playing children drifted over from the tent village beside the rows of parked trucks .
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It was quite accidental that we planted Cleveland sage, a shrubby California native, next to where I park the truck .
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We park the truck just past Wino Tank and begin hiking up the canyon.
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Earl Varney parked his truck in front of the first of the sedans from Rehoboth.
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Resler and I jumped out while Leese and Nate went to park the truck .
pass
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Neeson was able to climb back to the road and flag down a passing truck .
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On a two-lane in western Ohio, I begin to pass a pickup truck with a slatted wooden enclosure on the bed.
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I passed a military truck in the hedge.
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Attempting to pass a truck , he veered too close and scraped the outstretched arm of one of the girls.
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Ram Rahim was still overloaded and by now so terrified that he shied at passing trucks .
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They waved to no one who might have waved off the various porches or through the windshields of the passing trucks .
rent
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So we had to rent a forklift truck from somewhere, then manhandle the saw into the workshop.
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Pieces from the inside of the rented Ryder truck box.
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After a few days of traveling on the bus without the family car, they rented a pickup truck .
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So they rented a truck and drove through the countryside around the Cusiana prospect.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bus load/car load/truck load etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a garbage truck
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You can borrow my truck to go to the store.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Branches scraping the truck again, a grinding downshift into first: and the truck jarring itself over dirt.
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Corporal Pocock found a rifle and hid by the wheel of a truck .
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I did not want to be sitting in my truck , waiting for a wolf to come by.
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The truck purred along the road, with the other truck following it.
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There was a truck parked in front of the quarry.
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There was an odd-shaped room, not a lot bigger than the cab of the truck itself.
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Why would a family minivan be called a truck ?
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
s
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If their cargo is destined for cities further away, it is shifted on to a U. S . truck .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Some Texas ranchers are having hay trucked in from Colorado.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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We truck through deserted commuter villages.