United Kingdom. In British English, the word van refers to vehicles that carry goods only, either on roads or on rails. What would be called a "minivan" in American English is called a "people-carrier", "MPV" or multi-purpose vehicle, and larger passenger vehicles are called "minibuses".
British. a railway baggage car. a covered, boxlike railway car, as one used to carry freight. a small, horse-drawn wagon or a small truck, as one used by tradespeople to carry light goods.
The truth is, lorry in American English is truck. The British lorry is almost the same as the American truck, and the two words have morphed into synonyms of each other.
English Vocabulary Lesson on Vehicles: Cars, Trucks, and Vans
What do British people call 18 wheelers?
A semi-trailer truck, also known as a semi, tractor-trailer, big rig, eighteen-wheeler, or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) articulated lorry or artic is a vehicle that has a towing tractor unit and a semi-trailer that carries the freight.
In the UK, Australia, South Africa and India the term applies to off-road construction plants only and the road vehicle is known as a tip lorry, tipper lorry (UK, India), tipper truck, tip truck, tip trailer or tipper trailer or simply a tipper (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa).
A residential garage (UK: /ˈɡærɑːʒ, -rɑːdʒ, -rɪdʒ/ GARR-ahzh, -ahj, -ij, US: /ɡəˈrɑːʒ, -rɑːdʒ/ gə-RAHZH, -RAHJ) is a walled, roofed structure for storing a vehicle or vehicles that may be part of or attached to a home ("attached garage"), or a separate outbuilding or shed ("detached garage").
The front window of the car is named the windscreen in the UK, while in the USA, they've tweaked it just slightly to read windshield. Both 'screen' and 'shield' suggest protection and so are still quite similar in their meaning, linguistically.
The acronym BMW stands for Bayerische Motoren Werke GmbH, which roughly translates to the Bavarian Engine Works Company. The name harks back to the company's origin in the German state of Bavaria. It also indicates BMW's original product range: engines for various applications.
It was originally designed to make room for low-density goods. This type of van features a box-shaped body that extends over the driver cab. The portion of its body that rests on top of the driver cab is otherwise known as the kick or Luton.
A van is a small or medium-sized road vehicle with one row of seats at the front and a space for carrying goods behind. 2. countable noun. A van is a railway carriage, often without windows, which is used to carry luggage, goods, or mail.
The good news here is that American and British English use the same words to describe most of the rooms in a house: bathroom, bedroom, dining room and kitchen.
Rubbish is a synonym for garbage or trash. The word is more commonly used by speakers of British English than by speakers of American English. The noun rubbish also means writing or speech that is worthless, untrue, or nonsense, especially in British English.
In Western architecture, a living room, also called a lounge room (Australian English), lounge (British English), sitting room (British English), or drawing room, is a room for relaxing and socializing in a residential house or apartment.
The causes of roadside litter are varied. Alongside deliberate action, much waste blows off the back of trucks or lorries. Plus the endemic use of single-use plastics and excess packaging also plays a part in the problem. “If we're ever to have a chance of returning England to a clean and pleasant land.
