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van

noun
/væn/

Etymology

From Latin vannus (“a van, or fan for winnowing grain”): compare French van and English fan, winnow. Doublet of fan.

  1. derived from Վան
  2. derived from وان
  3. borrowed from Van

Definitions

  1. A covered motor vehicle used to carry goods or (normally less than ten) persons, usually…

    A covered motor vehicle used to carry goods or (normally less than ten) persons, usually roughly cuboid in shape, Depending on the type of van, it can be bigger or smaller than a pickup truck and SUV, and longer and higher than a car but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry or a bus.

  2. An enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods, such as a boxcar/box van.

  3. A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others for the…

    A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others for the transportation of goods.

  4. ›+ 19 more definitions

    1. A large towable vehicle equipped for the repair of structures that cannot easily be moved.

    2. To transport in a van or similar vehicle (especially of horses).

      • I have to have a license to own them, a license to train them, my jockey has to have a license to ride them, the van company must have a license to van them, and the black shoe man must have a license to shoe them.
      • [They] had their own horses, but they hadn't bothered to van them over to Pine Hollow for this outing.

    3. Of law enforcement

      Of law enforcement: to arrest (not necessarily in a van; derived from party van).

      • He later told CW that he had been "v&" or "vanned" by the police, and he expressed surprise that the police showed him detailed transcripts of his conversations.
      • But not before someone supposedly forwarded all the information onto the FBI. In a last-ditch effort to avoid getting "vanned," Naratto tried to put the memie back in the bottle

    4. Clipping of vanguard.

      • Ten thousand thousand Ensignes high advanc'd, / Standards, and Gonfalons twixt Van and Reare / Streame in the Aire, and for distinction serve
      • Then a bumper to the Queen led the van of our good wishes, another to the Church Established, a third was left to the whim of the toaster[…]
      • As for the guides, they were debarred from the pleasure of discourse, the one being placed in the van, and the other obliged to bring up the rear.

    5. A shovel used in cleansing ore.

    6. To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.

    7. A fan or other contrivance, such as a sieve, for winnowing grain.

      • with strange amaze / A shepherd meeting thee, the oar surveys, / And names a van (Book XI)

    8. A wing with which the air is beaten.

      • So Satan fell; and ſtrait a fiery Globe / Of Angels on full ſail of wing flew nigh, / Who on their plumy Vans receiv'd him ſoft […]
      • He wheeled in air, and stretched his vans in vain; / His vans no longer could his flight sustain.
      • Because these wings are no longer wings to fly / But merely vans to beat the air[…]

    9. A place in the United States

      A place in the United States:

    10. A place in Wales

      A place in Wales:

    11. A diminutive of the female given name Vanessa.

    12. A diminutive of the male given names Vance, Ivan, or Evan.

      • 'Beautiful idea,' said Van as he helped Ada to heat the tank, fill the old battered bath and warm a couple of towels.

    13. A large saline tectonic lake of the Armenian Highland in eastern Turkey, famous for its…

      A large saline tectonic lake of the Armenian Highland in eastern Turkey, famous for its Chalcalburnus tarichi (syn. Alburnus tarichi) fish and the 10th century Armenian cathedral on Akhtamar Island.

    14. A province and metropolitan municipality in easternmost Turkey, partly surrounding the…

      A province and metropolitan municipality in easternmost Turkey, partly surrounding the lake, with a Kurdish majority.

    15. A city, the capital of Van Province, Turkey, on the shore of the lake.

    16. Abbreviation of Vancouver.

    17. A Van cat.

    18. A Turkish Van cat.

    19. Abbreviation of value-added network.

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Derived

baggage van, box van, brake van, camper van, car-body van, conversion van, cube van, delivery van, detector van, divvy van, dollar van, driving van trailer, e-van, ferry van, gas van, goods van, guard's van, ice cream van, loony van, luggage van, Luton van, motor-van, moving van, ninja van, panel van, party van, patrol van, pedo van, police van, public utility van, rape van, removal van, serial-killer van, serial killer van, van-courier, van courier, van-dragger, van-dragging, van-girl, vanily · +3 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for van. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA