Pkw, Lkw
ETYM AS. craeft strength, skill, art, cunning; akin to OS., German, Swed., and Dan. kraft strength, Dutch kracht, Icel. kraptr; perh. originally, a drawing together, stretching, from the root of Eng. cramp.
(Homonym: kraft).
1. A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space.
2. A particular kind of skilled work; SYN. trade.
3. Skill in an occupation or trade; SYN. craftsmanship, workmanship.
4. Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception; SYN. craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness.
ETYM Latin vehiculum, from vehere to carry; akin to Eng. way, wain. Related to Way, Convex, Inveigh, Veil, Vex.
1. A conveyance that transports people or objects.
2. A medium for the expression or achievement of something.
ETYM Old Fren. vessel, veissel, vaissel, vaissiel, French vascellum, dim. of vasculum, dim. of vas a vessel. Related to Vascular, Vase.
1. A craft designed for water transportation; SYN. watercraft.
2. A tube in which a body fluid circulates; SYN. vas.
3. An object used as a container (especially for liquids).
1. One that wheels.
2. A draft animal (as a horse) pulling in the position nearest the front wheels of a wagon.
3. Something (as a vehicle or ship) that has wheels — used especially in combination.
1. Containing within itself the means of propulsion or movement; SYN. self-propelled, self-propelling.
2. Of or relating to motor vehicles.
self-propelling.
ETYM Latin vehicularis: cf. French véhiculaire.
Of or relating to or intended for (motor) vehicles.