Lorry
noun
A large vehicle used to transport goods or materials.
The lorry is delivering the furniture at six o'clock tomorrow.
Often appears as...
- lorry driver
- lorry load
noun
A large vehicle used to transport goods or materials.
The lorry is delivering the furniture at six o'clock tomorrow.
Often appears as...
- lorry driver
- lorry load
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3British Usage
Primarily used in the UK, 'lorry' might confuse speakers from other regions where 'truck' is more common.
In the UK, you would say 'The supermarket gets a lorry delivery every morning.'
Pro Tip 2/3Size Matters
'Lorry' implies a larger vehicle often used commercially rather than a small pickup used by individuals.
Construction sites usually have several lorries to move heavy materials.
Pro Tip 3/3Career Language
Using 'lorry driver' specifies the job of someone who operates a heavy goods vehicle professionally.
He started working as a lorry driver for a logistics company.
Pro Tip 1/3British Usage
Primarily used in the UK, 'lorry' might confuse speakers from other regions where 'truck' is more common.
In the UK, you would say 'The supermarket gets a lorry delivery every morning.'
Pro Tip 2/3Size Matters
'Lorry' implies a larger vehicle often used commercially rather than a small pickup used by individuals.
Construction sites usually have several lorries to move heavy materials.
Pro Tip 3/3Career Language
Using 'lorry driver' specifies the job of someone who operates a heavy goods vehicle professionally.
He started working as a lorry driver for a logistics company.
Pro Tip 1/3British Usage
Primarily used in the UK, 'lorry' might confuse speakers from other regions where 'truck' is more common.
In the UK, you would say 'The supermarket gets a lorry delivery every morning.'
Pro Tip 2/3Size Matters
'Lorry' implies a larger vehicle often used commercially rather than a small pickup used by individuals.
Construction sites usually have several lorries to move heavy materials.
Pro Tip 3/3Career Language
Using 'lorry driver' specifies the job of someone who operates a heavy goods vehicle professionally.
He started working as a lorry driver for a logistics company.
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The Elusive Iberian Lynx...
it is so weird to be out here next to a motorway looking for the last blinks in the world when you see a motorway you think cars and lorries uh you do not think endangered species these roads are so dangerous so they're actually using these underpasses there's drain systems that go under the road
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The Restorative Power of...
on someone's quality of life. If learning how to tattoo body art is like learning to drive a car, learning how to do medical tattooing on damaged skin that's scarred or may have been through radiation or had necrosis would be like learning to drive an Arctic lorry.
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Telling History: Behind...
immediacy in terms of our experience of this period in history and then with rod lorry who is a director at the top of his form but one who thrives in this political forum and between the two of them there was such a deep foundation of
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Reintroducing Europe's...
to be out here next to a motorway looking for the last blinks in the world when you see a motorway you think cars and lorries you did not think endangered species these rules are so dangerous so there are using these underpasses
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Safari Live - Day 35 PIPE...
very nice but they're so tough those purchase liens but I think he's kept a few at bay before he is honestly an absolute brute non lorry wondering if the horns of the Buffalo different in the Mara no no they're the same as the
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Maps that show us who we...
a ship which was taking so many containers of goods that when they were unloaded, if the lorries had all gone in convoy, they would have been 100 kilometers long. This is how our world is now connected.
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Safari Live - Day 121 PIPE...
go away bird is a they used to be a a taco or a lorry let me show you it seems to be very nice birding afternoon we'll get our borrows on in our bird books go away okay doesn't want to show me where
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A Look at the Whimsical...
on tires and the big lorry which is what I got and I want to work in the trailer behind in my home in the lorry with the dogs and that's us it is a very romantic life in the real sense of that word
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Full Body Tattoo Taboo?...
it on in the flesh once a month he organizes a performance at a local bar exposing the public to a mix of karaoke Japanese tradition and lorry moment by putting a spotlight on jaurim Ono
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The hidden history of...
fast of course we did a vast number of early projects concerned with operations research the sighting of Depot's for an oil company the scheduling of lorries
Video examples
The Elusive Iberian Lynx...
it is so weird to be out here next to a motorway looking for the last blinks in the world when you see a motorway you think cars and lorries uh you do not think endangered species these roads are so dangerous so they're actually using these underpasses there's drain systems that go under the road
Video examples
The Restorative Power of...
on someone's quality of life. If learning how to tattoo body art is like learning to drive a car, learning how to do medical tattooing on damaged skin that's scarred or may have been through radiation or had necrosis would be like learning to drive an Arctic lorry.
Video examples
Telling History: Behind...
immediacy in terms of our experience of this period in history and then with rod lorry who is a director at the top of his form but one who thrives in this political forum and between the two of them there was such a deep foundation of
Video examples
Reintroducing Europe's...
to be out here next to a motorway looking for the last blinks in the world when you see a motorway you think cars and lorries you did not think endangered species these rules are so dangerous so there are using these underpasses
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 35 PIPE...
very nice but they're so tough those purchase liens but I think he's kept a few at bay before he is honestly an absolute brute non lorry wondering if the horns of the Buffalo different in the Mara no no they're the same as the
Video examples
Maps that show us who we...
a ship which was taking so many containers of goods that when they were unloaded, if the lorries had all gone in convoy, they would have been 100 kilometers long. This is how our world is now connected.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 121 PIPE...
go away bird is a they used to be a a taco or a lorry let me show you it seems to be very nice birding afternoon we'll get our borrows on in our bird books go away okay doesn't want to show me where
Video examples
A Look at the Whimsical...
on tires and the big lorry which is what I got and I want to work in the trailer behind in my home in the lorry with the dogs and that's us it is a very romantic life in the real sense of that word
Video examples
Full Body Tattoo Taboo?...
it on in the flesh once a month he organizes a performance at a local bar exposing the public to a mix of karaoke Japanese tradition and lorry moment by putting a spotlight on jaurim Ono
Video examples
The hidden history of...
fast of course we did a vast number of early projects concerned with operations research the sighting of Depot's for an oil company the scheduling of lorries
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Quote examples
Boris Johnson
British Politician
When lorry drivers come up behind me and I'm cycling, innocently keeping to my side of the road, and they decide because they are so big, and their lorry is so powerful, and they just want to clear me out of the road, and they hoot aggressively, then I do see red a bit. I do.
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Rohinton Mistry
Canadian Writer
Traffic in the streets of Bombay is chaotic at best. Riding a bicycle is a dangerous occupation. However, there are hundreds of them on the streets competing with the cars and buses and lorries because it is the poor man's mode of transport.
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Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
British Actor
My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention. It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.
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Frankie Boyle
Scottish Comedian
If you feel more emotion looking at a picture of queuing lorries than a picture of desperate humans living in a lay-by, you need to check your bedtime routine for someone beating you round the head with a meat tenderiser.
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Olivia Colman
English Actress
I remember doing one of those computer careers tests. It told me I'd make an ideal HGV lorry driver because I've got 100 per cent spatial awareness. I'd be able to back them into tight parking spots.
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Vera Lynn
British Musician
Singing in the jungle was very hot and very sticky, which was a bit hard going. I had a little piano, which they trudged around on the back of a lorry, hoping it would survive the journeys.
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Joanna Lumley
English Actress
I haven't got a very sweet tooth, but I love salted things like nuts. I would have to be dragged in by a lorry if I ate as many salted peanuts as I would like to.
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David Harewood
English Actor
Before 'Homeland,' I had £80 in the bank and no idea what I was going to do. I seriously considered giving it all up and getting a job as a lorry driver.
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Neal Asher
English Writer
I've been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.
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Rob Beckett
My dad was a taxi driver - he's a long distance lorry driver now - and he has an amazing work ethic.
Quote examples
Boris Johnson
British Politician
When lorry drivers come up behind me and I'm cycling, innocently keeping to my side of the road, and they decide because they are so big, and their lorry is so powerful, and they just want to clear me out of the road, and they hoot aggressively, then I do see red a bit. I do.
Quote examples
Rohinton Mistry
Canadian Writer
Traffic in the streets of Bombay is chaotic at best. Riding a bicycle is a dangerous occupation. However, there are hundreds of them on the streets competing with the cars and buses and lorries because it is the poor man's mode of transport.
Quote examples
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
British Actor
My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention. It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.
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Frankie Boyle
Scottish Comedian
If you feel more emotion looking at a picture of queuing lorries than a picture of desperate humans living in a lay-by, you need to check your bedtime routine for someone beating you round the head with a meat tenderiser.
Quote examples
Olivia Colman
English Actress
I remember doing one of those computer careers tests. It told me I'd make an ideal HGV lorry driver because I've got 100 per cent spatial awareness. I'd be able to back them into tight parking spots.
Quote examples
Vera Lynn
British Musician
Singing in the jungle was very hot and very sticky, which was a bit hard going. I had a little piano, which they trudged around on the back of a lorry, hoping it would survive the journeys.
Quote examples
Joanna Lumley
English Actress
I haven't got a very sweet tooth, but I love salted things like nuts. I would have to be dragged in by a lorry if I ate as many salted peanuts as I would like to.
Quote examples
David Harewood
English Actor
Before 'Homeland,' I had £80 in the bank and no idea what I was going to do. I seriously considered giving it all up and getting a job as a lorry driver.
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Neal Asher
English Writer
I've been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.
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Rob Beckett
My dad was a taxi driver - he's a long distance lorry driver now - and he has an amazing work ethic.
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