A coveredmotor vehicle used to carrygoods or (normally less than ten)persons, usually roughlycuboid in shape, Depending on the type of van, it can be bigger or smaller than apickup truck andSUV, and longer and higher than acar but relatively smaller than atruck/lorry or abus.
Synonyms:(chiefly if used to carry a few people; "minivan" is officially used in North America)minivan,minibus
Thevan sped down the road.
(British) An enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods, such as aboxcar/box van.
Designed to be fully mobile and self-contained, the complete equipment includes an air-conditionedvan containing all necessary electronic gear and a flat bed trailer in which missiles, jet engines and other large assemblies may be cleaned.
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van (third-person singular simple presentvans,present participlevanning,simple past and past participlevanned)
(transitive) To transport in a van or similar vehicle (especially of horses).
1966, United States Congress, Senate, Committee on Commerce,(Please provide the book title or journal name):
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 tovan them, and the black shoe man must have a license to shoe them.
1999, Bonnie Bryant,Changing Leads, page53:
[They] had their own horses, but they hadn't bothered tovan them over to Pine Hollow for this outing.
(Internetslang, used in passive voice) Of law enforcement: to arrest (not necessarily in a van; derived fromparty van).
2011,The hackers hacked: main Anonymous IRC servers invaded[2]:
One Anon explained the reason for this, saying: "As for the domains, they were transferred to Ryan after some of us gotvanned so he can keep the network up. What he did certainly wasn't the plan." (Getting "vanned" refers to getting picked up by the police.)
2012,FBI names, arrests Anon who infiltrated its secret conference call[3]:
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.
2013,Redditor Confesses to Murder with Meme, Gets Doxed by Other Redditors, Deletes His Account and Disappears[4]:
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
The hacker says he thinks he is about to be v&, or “vanned,” meaning being raided by law enforcement, sometime soon.
2016,Teen Allegedly Behind CIA, FBI Breaches: 'They're Trying to Ruin My Life.'[5]:
On Wednesday night, Motherboard spoke to the teenager accused of being Cracka. "I got fucking v&," he told Motherboard, using "v&," the slang for "vanned," or getting arrested. (At this point, the arrest had not been made public.)
We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way thevan of the guests from Asquith.
1965, “Virāṭa Parva”, in Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan, transl.,The Mahābhārata, book 4, translation of original in Sanskrit, section 33, page84:
Bhīṣma then outlined the following strategy: “… Let Karṇa, clad in armour, stand in thevan. And I shall command the entire army in the rear.”
Adolphe de Neuter,Mémoires d'un entraîneur, volume 1:La casaque rose, Paris: Imprimerie Kapp, 1925, p. 145
C’est à l’occasion du Saint-Léger gagné par Elis que l’on usa pour la première fois d’unvan comme mode de locomotion pour les chevaux. Ce fut l’occasion d’un coup monstre.
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “vão”, inCorpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
The functions of this verb don’t fully overlap with the usage of corresponding verbs of other languages (compareSpanishser,estar orThaiคือ(kʉʉ),เป็น(bpen),อยู่(yùu)):
Van egytörpe azsebemben. or Törpevan a zsebemben. ―There is a dwarf in my pocket. –existence (used with an indefinite subject)
[Nekem]van egy zsebtörpém. ―I have a pocket-dwarf. (literally, “[to me]there is a pocket-dwarf-my”) –possession
A törpe a zsebembenvan. ―The dwarfis in my pocket. –location (used with a prepositional phrase in English)
A törpe jólvan. ―The dwarfis well. –state, condition (used with an adverb in English)
A törpe kicsi∅. ―The dwarfis small. –copula (used with an adjective or a noun as part of the predicate)
As we can see, the verb is omitted in the last sentence. It happens only in the given sense and only in the present-tense third-person singular and plural forms (“he/she/it” and “they”):
When used with an adjective (qualification) or a noun (whether with the definite or the indefinite article), i.e. when it answers the questionwho? orwhat? (includingwhat …… like?) orwhich?, the (indicative present third-person) formsvan andvannak are omitted:
Béla okos. ―Bélais clever.
Béla a király. ―Bélais the king.
Béla egy ember. ―Bélais a human.
On the other hand, ifis orare answers the questionwhere? orhow?, these verb forms will appear as usual:
Béla ittvan. ―Bélais here.
Béla jólvan. ―Bélais (feeling) well.
It also appears ifvan/vannak is thefocus of the sentence. This happens when the sentence means that the property described by the adjective (e.g. strength) reaches or exceeds some specified level and this is emphasized by the speaker. In this case, the adjective is preceded by a word likeolyan(“such”),annyira(“that much”),elég(“enough”).
Bélavan annyira erős, hogy felemelje a szekrényt. ―Bélais strongenough to lift the cupboard.
The forms other thanvan andvannak are always used.
The negative form isnincs ornincsen andsincs orsincsen (the latter two expressing “is not … either”).
Nincs pénzem. ―Idon't have any money.
Ittsincs étel. ―There 'isn’t any food hereeither.
If the predicate includes an adjective or a noun, that is, if it answers the questionwho, what etc. (see above), the third person present forms are omitted again, onlynem remains:
Bélanem tanár. ―Bélais not a teacher.
(exist, there is, to have): (have is expressed bythere is in Hungarian):
Van egy ház a hegyen. ―There is a house on the mountain.
Van egy kutyám. ―Ihave a dog. (literally, “There is a dog-[of]-mine.”)
(all verb senses):van in Géza Bárczi,László Országh,et al., editors,A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN.
([dialectal] synonym of the nounvagyon):van in Géza Bárczi,László Országh,et al., editors,A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN.
van(covered motor vehicle used to carry goods or (normally less than ten) persons, usually roughly cuboid in shape, longer and higher than a car but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry or a bus)
1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 2 Dated or archaic. 3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
Kathleen A. Browne (1927) “THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD.”, inJournal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of lreland (Sixth Series)[9], volume17, number 2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page129
