The difference between Exchange and Truck
When used as nouns, exchange means an act of exchanging or trading, whereas truck means a small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.
When used as verbs, exchange means to trade or barter, whereas truck means to drive a truck: generally a truck driver's slang.
Truck is also adjective with the meaning: pertaining to a garden patch or truck garden.
check bellow for the other definitions of Exchange and Truck
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Exchange as a noun:
An act of exchanging or trading.
Examples:
"All in all, it was an even exchange."
"an exchange of cattle for grain"
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Exchange as a noun:
A place for conducting trading.
Examples:
"The stock exchange is open for trading."
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Exchange as a noun:
A telephone exchange.
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Exchange as a noun (telephony, US):
The fourth through sixth digits of a ten-digit phone number (the first three before the introduction of area codes).
Examples:
"The 555 exchange is reserved for use by the phone company, which is why it's often used in films."
"NPA-NXX-1234 is standard format, where NPA is the area code and NXX is the exchange."
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Exchange as a noun:
A conversation.
Examples:
"After an exchange with the manager, we were no wiser."
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Exchange as a noun (chess):
The loss of one piece and associated capture of another The loss of a relatively minor piece (typically a bishop or knight) and associated capture of the more advantageous rook
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Exchange as a noun (obsolete):
The thing given or received in return; especially, a publication exchanged for another.
Examples:
"rfquotek Shakespeare"
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Exchange as a noun (biochemistry):
The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through a surface like a membrane.
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Exchange as a noun (finance):
The difference between the values of money in different places.
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Exchange as a verb (transitive):
To trade or barter.
Examples:
"I'll gladly exchange my place for yours."
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Exchange as a verb (transitive):
To replace with, as a substitute.
Examples:
"I'd like to exchange this shirt for one in a larger size."
"Since his arrest, the mob boss has exchanged a mansion for a jail cell."
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Truck as a noun:
A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.
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Truck as a noun:
The ball on top of a flagpole.
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Truck as a noun (nautical):
On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout. "Main" refers to the mainmast, whereas a truck on another mast may be called (on the mizzenmast, for example) "mizzen-truck".
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Truck as a noun (countable, uncountable, US, Australia):
A semi-tractor ("semi") trailer; a lorry.
Examples:
"Mexican open-bed trucks haul most of the fresh produce that comes into the United States from Mexico."
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Truck as a noun:
Any motor vehicle designed for carrying cargo, including delivery vans, pickups, and other motorized vehicles (including passenger autos) fitted with a bed designed to carry goods.
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Truck as a noun:
A garden cart, a two-wheeled wheelbarrow.
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Truck as a noun (obsolete):
A small wagon or cart, of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or pulled by an animal, as with those in hotels for moving luggage, or in libraries for transporting books.
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Truck as a noun:
A pantechnicon (removal van).
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Truck as a noun (UK, rail transport):
A flatbed railway car; a flatcar.
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Truck as a noun:
A pivoting frame, one attached to the bottom of the bed of a railway car at each end, that rests on the axle and which swivels to allow the axle (at each end of which is a solid wheel) to turn with curves in the track; a bogie.
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Truck as a noun:
The part of a skateboard or roller skate that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of a hanger, baseplate, kingpin, and bushings, and sometimes mounted with a riser in between.
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Truck as a noun (theater):
A platform with wheels or casters.
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Truck as a noun:
Dirt or other messiness.
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Truck as a verb (intransitive):
To drive a truck: Generally a truck driver's slang.
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Truck as a verb (transitive):
To convey by truck.
Examples:
"Last week, Cletus trucked 100 pounds of lumber up to Dubuque."
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Truck as a verb (intransitive, US, slang):
To travel or live contentedly.
Examples:
"Keep on trucking!"
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Truck as a verb (intransitive, US, Canada, slang):
To persist, to endure.
Examples:
"Keep on trucking!"
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Truck as a verb (intransitive, film production):
To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.
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Truck as a verb (transitive, slang):
To fight or otherwise physically engage with.
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Truck as a verb (transitive, slang):
To run over or through a tackler in American football.
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Truck as a verb (intransitive, now, _, chiefly, _, dialectal):
To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.
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Truck as a verb (intransitive, now, _, chiefly, _, dialectal):
To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.
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Truck as a verb (intransitive, now, _, chiefly, _, dialectal):
To deceive; cheat; defraud.
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Truck as a verb (transitive, UK, _, dialectal, Scotland):
To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down).
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Truck as a verb (transitive):
To trade, exchange; barter.
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Truck as a verb (intransitive):
To engage in commerce; to barter or deal.
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Truck as a verb (intransitive):
To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.
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Truck as a noun (obsolete, often used in plural sense):
Small, humble items; things, often for sale or barter.
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Truck as a noun (historical):
The practice of paying workers in kind, or with tokens only exchangeable at a shop owned by the employer [forbidden in the 19th century by the ]
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Truck as a noun (US):
Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden).
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Truck as a noun (usually, _, with negative):
Social intercourse; dealings, relationships.
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Truck as an adjective:
Pertaining to a garden patch or truck garden.