(Great Britain) a closed railroad car that carries baggage or freight
The front of an army; the first line or leading column; also, the front line or foremost division of a fleet, either in sailing or in battle.
Noun
a truck with an enclosed cargo space
Noun
a camper equipped with living quarters
Noun
the leading units moving at the head of an army
Noun
any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
n.
The front of an army; the first line or leading column; also,
the front line or foremost division of a fleet, either in sailing or in
battle.
n.
A shovel used in cleansing ore.
v. t.
To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.
n.
A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and
others fore the transportation of goods.
n.
A large covered wagon for moving furniture, etc., also for
conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition.
n.
A close railway car for baggage. See the Note under Car, 2.
n.
A fan or other contrivance, as a sieve, for winnowing grain.
n.
A wing with which the air is beaten.
v. t.
To fan, or to cleanse by fanning; to winnow.
Van
Standards and gonfalons, twixt van and rear, Stream in the air.
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He wheeled in air, and stretched his vans in vain; His vans no longer could his flight sustain.
Van
The front of an army; the first line or leading column; also, the front line or foremost division of a fleet, either in sailing or in battle.
A shovel used in cleansing ore.
To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.
A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others fore the transportation of goods.
A fan or other contrivance, as a sieve, for winnowing grain.
To fan, or to cleanse by fanning; to winnow.
Usage Examples
Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability.
I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.'
I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party.
The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.
I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart.
Every job has its downside. For example, being in a band the travel part of it - getting picked up from your house in a car, going to the airport, getting on a plane, going from the airplane to a van, then going from the van to a hotel.
My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.
My Dad used to tell us: 'En este pais, ustedes van a poder lograr todas las cosas que nosotros no pudimos' 'In this country, you will be able to accomplish all the things we never could.'
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Other Usage ExamplesI liked a lot of the things other people liked - Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC - but if I compared it to my dad's music, there just seemed to be elements missing.
If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.
The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.
David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.
Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value.
He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
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