Track vs. Truck — What's the Difference?

A mark or succession of marks left by something that has passed.

A truck or lorry is a motor vehicle designed to transport cargo, carry specialized payloads, or perform other utilitarian work. Trucks vary greatly in size, power, and configuration, but the vast majority feature body-on-frame construction, with a cabin that is independent of the payload portion of the vehicle.

A path, route, or course indicated by such marks

A large, heavy road vehicle used for carrying goods, materials, or troops; a lorry.

A path along which something moves; a course

A railway bogie.

A course of action; a method of proceeding

A wooden disc at the top of a ship's mast or flagstaff, with holes for halyards to slide through.

An intended or proper course

Barter.

A succession of ideas; a train of thought.

Small wares.

Awareness of something occurring or passing

Market-garden produce, especially vegetables

A course laid out for running or racing.

Convey by truck

Athletic competition on such a course; track events.

Barter or exchange.

Track and field.

Any of various heavy motor vehicles designed for carrying or pulling loads.

A rail or set of parallel rails upon which railroad cars or other vehicles run.

A hand truck.

Tracks The boundary, formerly often delineated by train tracks, that separates two neighborhoods of different social class

A wheeled platform, sometimes equipped with a motor, for conveying loads in a warehouse or freight yard.

Either of the continuous metal belts with which vehicles such as bulldozers and tanks move over the ground.

A set of bookshelves mounted on four wheels or casters, used in libraries.

A metal groove or ridge that holds, guides, and reduces friction for a moving device or apparatus.

One of the swiveling frames of wheels under each end of a railroad car or trolley car.

Any of several courses of study to which students are assigned according to ability, achievement, or needs

Either of the frames housing a pair of wheels on a skateboard or landboard.

A distinct path, as along a length of film or magnetic tape, on which sound, images, or other information is recorded.

(Nautical) A small piece of wood placed at the top of a mast or flagpole, usually having holes through which halyards can be passed.

A distinct selection from an audio or video recording, usually containing an individual work or part of a larger work

Chiefly British A railroad freight car without a top.

One of two or more separate recordings that are combined so as to be replayed simultaneously, as in stereophonic sound reproduction

The trading of goods or services without the exchange of money; barter.

One of the concentric magnetic rings that form the separate data storage areas on a floppy disk or a hard disk.

Articles of commerce; trade goods.

A set of digital data encoded consecutively on an optical disc.

Garden produce raised for the market.

Tracks(Slang) Needle marks on the skin from multiple intravenous injections, considered an indication of habitual drug use.

(Informal) Worthless goods; stuff or rubbish

To follow the tracks of; trail

(Informal) Dealings; business

To leave marks made of (dirt or mud, for example) on a surface

To transport by truck.

To leave marks on (a floor, for example) when moving or traversing

To carry goods by truck.

To observe or monitor the course of (an aircraft, for example), as by radar.

To drive a truck.

To observe the progress of; follow

(Slang) To move or travel in a steady but easy manner.

To determine or discover the location or origin of

To have dealings or commerce; traffic

To equip with a track.

To exchange; barter.

To assign (a student) to a curricular track.

To peddle.

To follow a course; travel

A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.

To keep a constant distance apart. Used of a pair of wheels.

The ball on top of a flagpole.

To be in alignment

(nautical) On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout. "Main" refers to the mainmast, whereas a truck on another mast may be called (on the mizzenmast, for example) "mizzen-truck".

To follow the undulations in the groove of a phonograph record. Used of a needle.

A heavier motor vehicle designed to carry goods or to pull a semi-trailer designed to carry goods

To move across magnetic heads. Used of magnetic tape.

A lorry with a closed or covered carriage

To move in relation to a subject being filmed. Used of a camera or camera crew.

A railroad car, chiefly one designed to carry goods

A mark left by something that has passed along.

Any smaller wagon/cart or vehicle of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or (obsolete) pulled by an animal, used to move and sometimes lift goods, like those in hotels for moving luggage or in libraries for moving books.

A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.

Abbreviation of railroad truck or wheel truck; A pivoting frame, one attached to the bottom of the bed of a railway car at each end, that rests on the axle and which swivels to allow the axle (at each end of which is a solid wheel) to turn with curves in the track.

The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.

The part of a skateboard or roller skate that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of a hanger, baseplate, kingpin, and bushings, and sometimes mounted with a riser in between.

A road or other similar beaten path.

(theater) A platform with wheels or casters.

Physical course; way.

Dirt or other messiness.

A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.

Small, humble items; things, often for sale or barter.

The direction and progress of someone or something; path.

(historical) The practice of paying workers in kind, or with tokens only exchangeable at a shop owned by the employer [forbidden in the 19th century by the Truck Acts].

(railways) The way or rails along which a train moves. Category:en:Rail transportation

Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden).

A tract or area, such as of land.

Social intercourse; dealings, relationships.

(slang) The street, as a prostitute's place of work.

(intransitive) To drive a truck.

Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.

(transitive) To convey by truck.

(automotive) The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree.

To travel or live contentedly.

(automotive) caterpillar track

To persist, to endure.

(cricket) The pitch.

To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.

Sound stored on a record.

To fight or otherwise physically engage with.

The physical track on a record.

To run over or through a tackler in American football.

(music) A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short silence.

To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.

A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.

To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.

The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.

To deceive; cheat; defraud.

A themed set of talks within a conference.

To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down).

Clipping of trackshoe

(transitive) To trade, exchange; barter.

To continue over time.

(intransitive) To engage in commerce; to barter or deal.

(transitive) To observe the (measured) state of a person or object over time.

(intransitive) To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.

(transitive) To monitor the movement of a person or object.

A small wheel, as of a vehicle; specifically (Ord.), a small strong wheel, as of wood or iron, for a gun carriage.

(transitive) To match the movement or change of a person or object.

A low, wheeled vehicle or barrow for carrying goods, stone, and other heavy articles.

To travel so that a moving object remains in shot.

A swiveling carriage, consisting of a frame with one or more pairs of wheels and the necessary boxes, springs, etc., to carry and guide one end of a locomotive or a car; - sometimes called bogie in England. Trucks usually have four or six wheels.

To move.

A small wooden cap at the summit of a flagstaff or a masthead, having holes in it for reeving halyards through.

(transitive) To traverse; to move across.

A freight car.

(transitive) To tow.

A frame on low wheels or rollers; - used for various purposes, as for a movable support for heavy bodies.

(intransitive) To exhibit good cognitive function.

A motorized vehicle larger than an automobile with a compartment in front for the driver, behind which is a separate compartment for freight;

(transitive) To follow the tracks of.

Exchange of commodities; barter.

(transitive) To discover the location of a person or object by following traces.

Commodities appropriate for barter, or for small trade; small commodities; esp., in the United States, garden vegetables raised for the market.

(transitive) To make tracks on or to leave in the form of tracks.

The practice of paying wages in goods instead of money; - called also truck system.

To create a musical recording (a track).

To transport on a truck or trucks.

To create music using tracker software.

To exchange; to give in exchange; to barter; as, to truck knives for gold dust.

To make sense; to be consistent with known information

To exchange commodities; to barter; to trade; to deal.

A mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel.

An automotive vehicle suitable for hauling

A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or beast; trace; vestige; footprint.

A handcart that has a frame with two low wheels and a ledge at the bottom and handles at the top; used to move crates or other heavy objects

The entire lower surface of the foot; - said of birds, etc.

Convey (goods etc.) by truck;

A road; a beaten path.

Course; way; as, the track of a comet.

A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.

The permanent way; the rails.

A tract or area, as of land.

To follow the tracks or traces of; to pursue by following the marks of the feet; to trace; to trail; as, to track a deer in the snow.

To draw along continuously, as a vessel, by a line, men or animals on shore being the motive power; to tow.

A line or route along which something travels or moves;

Evidence pointing to a possible solution;

A pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels

A course over which races are run

A distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc;

An endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground

(computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data

A groove on a phonograph recording

A bar or bars of rolled steel making a track along which vehicles can roll

Any road or path affording passage especially a rough one

The act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track

Carry on the feet and deposit;

Observe or plot the moving path of something;

Go after with the intent to catch;

Travel across or pass over;

Make tracks upon