van

IPA: vˈæn

A covered motor vehicle used to carry goods or (normally less than ten) persons, usually roughly cuboid in shape, longer and higher than a car but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry or a bus.
(Britain) An enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods, such as a boxcar/box van.
(dated) A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others for the transportation of goods.
(aerospace) A large towable vehicle equipped for the repair of structures that cannot easily be moved.
(mining) A shovel used in cleansing ore.
A fan or other contrivance, such as a sieve, for winnowing grain.
A wing with which the air is beaten.
A diminutive of the male given names Vance, Ivan, or Evan.
A diminutive of the female given name Vanessa.
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.
Van (a city on the shore of that lake, the capital of Van province, Turkey).
Van (a province of Turkey).
A Van cat.
A Turkish Van cat.
Clipping of vanguard. [(military) The leading units at the front of an army or fleet.]
Abbreviation of Vancouver. [A surname.]
Abbreviation of value-added network. [A communications network with additional functions such as error correction, protocol conversion and message storing.]

(transitive) To transport in a van or similar vehicle (especially of horses).
(Internet slang, used in passive voice) Of law enforcement: to arrest (not necessarily in a van; derived from party van).
(mining) To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.

Examples of "van" in Sentences

If your van is a beater, you might not want or need comprehensive anyway.
The horse stands thirteen hands if an inch; the van is a converted coster's barrow.
If the van is going to be valet parked for us, we can swivel that box upside down to drop all the coins in our hand and put them in a pocket.
I was in van full of tourists in an open air market in Nairobi in 1969 when we were all nearly lynched when one woman took one picture of the local crowd without permision.
Since my wifes van is registered using the address of her mothers house in México City and has D.F. License plates on it, she just has the verification test done every six months there since they go to México City every month anyway.