Definitions for Lorries
lor·ries

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1. Lorries

   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. Smaller varieties may be mechanically similar to some automobiles. Commercial trucks can be very large and powerful and may be configured to be mounted with specialized equipment, such as in the case of refuse trucks, fire trucks, concrete mixers, and suction excavators. In American English, a commercial vehicle without a trailer or other articulation is formally a "straight truck" while one designed specifically to pull a trailer is not a truck but a "tractor".The majority of trucks currently in use are still powered by diesel engines, although small- to medium-size trucks with gasoline engines exist in the US, Canada, and Mexico. The market-share of electrically powered trucks is growing rapidly, expected to reach 7% globally by 2027, and electric motive force already predominates among both the largest and smallest trucks. In the European Union, vehicles with a gross combination mass of up to 3.5 t (3.4 long tons; 3.9 short tons) are known as light commercial vehicles, and those over as large goods vehicles.

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1. Lorries

   of Lorry

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Lorries' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4400

How to pronounce Lorries?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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How to say Lorries in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Lorries in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Lorries in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Lorries in a Sentence

1. Russ Mantle:

   I can remember other things very clearly despite me having been knocked off by cars, lorries and suffered concussion, three days in Southampton hospital through an accident with a lorry.

2. Peter Wallace:

   In the last month there's been a huge increase -- there's been about 120 people or so that have claimed they've come from Iran, they were trying to get across in dinghies and before they were trying to get through the tunnel or in the back of lorries, but it's been this huge change in the last month with over 100 people, including little tiny children, trying to get across the whole Channel in little tiny boats.

3. David Ryan:

   The vision is that fuel-cell vehicles can be used in the place of hybrids now — so you might have a fuel-cell car with a battery backup, but for lorries and buses, the vision is that they could be totally hydrogen fueled. We can provide enough fuel for a day's transportation and then they return to base to refuel for the next day.

4. Martin Garside:

   It is incredibly sad - I was literally two feet from this dead whale, it was both poignant and a bit eerie really - road traffic was thundering overhead on the busiest motorway in Britain and oblivious to all the people in the cars and lorries there was a 10-metre long beautiful whale floating dead beneath them.

5. David Ryan:

   For road transport, hydrogen is the perfect fuel, for large lorries [ trucks ] and buses it is probably the future of clean fuel, because its emission is water.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorries
2. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Lorries