Truck vs. Juggernaut — What's the Difference?

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 juggernaut ( (listen)), in current English usage, is a literal or metaphorical force regarded as merciless, destructive, and unstoppable. This usage originated in the mid-nineteenth century.

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

Old-fashioned name for Jagannatha

A railway bogie.

An overwhelming or unstoppable force

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

A literal or metaphorical force or object regarded as unstoppable, that will crush all in its path.

Barter.

A large, cumbersome truck or lorry, especially an artic.

Small wares.

An institution that incites destructive devotion or to which people are carelessly sacrificed.

Market-garden produce, especially vegetables

One of the names under which Vishnu, in his incarnation as Krishna, is worshiped by the Hindus. See also Jagannath.

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Any large, unstoppable force, power, or popular movement which defeats or destroys any person who gets in its way or attempts to stop it; as, for years the Notre Dame football team was an unstoppable juggernaut; after the early primaries, Johnson's campaign became a juggernaut, crushing all rivals.

Barter or exchange.

A massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way

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

An avatar of Vishnu

A hand truck.

A crude idol of Krishna

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

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

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

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

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

Chiefly British A railroad freight car without a top.

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

Articles of commerce; trade goods.

Garden produce raised for the market.

(Informal) Worthless goods; stuff or rubbish

(Informal) Dealings; business

To transport by truck.

To carry goods by truck.

To drive a truck.

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

To have dealings or commerce; traffic

To exchange; barter.

To peddle.

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

The ball on top of a flagpole.

(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".

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

A lorry with a closed or covered carriage

A railroad car, chiefly one designed to carry goods

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.

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 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.

(theater) A platform with wheels or casters.

Dirt or other messiness.

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

(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].

Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden).

Social intercourse; dealings, relationships.

(intransitive) To drive a truck.

(transitive) To convey by truck.

To travel or live contentedly.

To persist, to endure.

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

To fight or otherwise physically engage with.

To run over or through a tackler in American football.

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

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

To deceive; cheat; defraud.

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

(transitive) To trade, exchange; barter.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

A freight car.

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

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

Exchange of commodities; barter.

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

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

To transport on a truck or trucks.

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

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

An automotive vehicle suitable for hauling

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

Convey (goods etc.) by truck;