van

noun

1. A covered motor vehicle used to carry goods or (normally less than ten) persons, usually roughly cuboid in shape, Depending on the type of van, it can be bigger or smaller than a pickup truck and SUV, and longer and higher than a car but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry or a bus.

   “While Santa Monica has a longstanding prohibition against public camping that includes living in vehicles, the van rental business has been a problem in Venice for years. […] Organizations that provide safe parking locations have limited capacity and are often unable to accommodate the kind of non-operational vans that are being repurposed as makeshift housing.”

   “Carbon emissions from vans in the UK have risen by 63% since 1990, new analysis shows, as cars are getting cleaner. While more people are opting to drive electric or plug-in hybrid cars, van drivers still prefer diesel because electric vans are much more expensive with little choice of models.”

2. (British)An enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods, such as a boxcar/box van.
3. (dated)A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others for the transportation of goods.
4. A large towable vehicle equipped for the repair of structures that cannot easily be moved.

   “Designed to be fully mobile and self-contained, the complete equipment includes an air-conditioned van containing all necessary electronic gear and a flat bed trailer in which missiles, jet engines and other large assemblies may be cleaned.”

5. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping)Clipping of vanguard.

   “Ten thousand thousand Ensignes high advanc'd, / Standards, and Gonfalons twixt Van and Reare / Streame in the Aire, and for distinction serve”

   “Then a bumper to the Queen led the van of our good wishes, another to the Church Established, a third was left to the whim of the toaster[…]”

   “As for the guides, they were debarred from the pleasure of discourse, the one being placed in the van, and the other obliged to bring up the rear.”

   “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 the van of the guests from Asquith.”

   “Bhīṣma then outlined the following strategy: “… Let Karṇa, clad in armour, stand in the van. And I shall command the entire army in the rear.””

6. A shovel used in cleansing ore.
7. A fan or other contrivance, such as a sieve, for winnowing grain.

   “with strange amaze / A shepherd meeting thee, the oar surveys, / And names a van (Book XI)”

8. A wing with which the air is beaten.

   “So Satan fell; and ſtrait a fiery Globe / Of Angels on full ſail of wing flew nigh, / Who on their plumy Vans receiv'd him ſoft […]”

   “He wheeled in air, and stretched his vans in vain; / His vans no longer could his flight sustain.”

   “Because these wings are no longer wings to fly / But merely vans to beat the air[…]”

9. A Van cat.
10. A Turkish Van cat.
11. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of value-added network.

verb

1. (transitive)To transport in a van or similar vehicle (especially of horses).

   “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 to van them, and the black shoe man must have a license to shoe them.”

   “[They] had their own horses, but they hadn't bothered to van them over to Pine Hollow for this outing.”

2. (Internet)Of law enforcement: to arrest (not necessarily in a van; derived from party van).

   “One Anon explained the reason for this, saying: "As for the domains, they were transferred to Ryan after some of us got vanned 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.)”

   “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.”

   “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”

   “2015 13-year-old credited with hacking CIA director’s AOL account gives bizarre, possibly final interview The hacker says he thinks he is about to be v&, or “vanned,” meaning being raided by law enforcement, sometime soon.”

   “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.)”

3. To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.

name

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9. A diminutive of the female given name Vanessa.
10. A diminutive of the male given names Vance, Ivan, or Evan.

    “'Beautiful idea,' said Van as he helped Ada to heat the tank, fill the old battered bath and warm a couple of towels.”

11. A large saline tectonic lake of the Armenian Highland in eastern Turkey, famous for its Chalcalburnus tarichi (syn. Alburnus tarichi) fish and the 10th century Armenian cathedral on Akhtamar Island.
12. A province and metropolitan municipality in easternmost Turkey, partly surrounding the lake, with a Kurdish majority.
13. A city, the capital of Van Province, Turkey, on the shore of the lake.
14. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Vancouver.
15. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Vancouver.