semitrailer
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4.8
- noun
- /ˈsɛmɪˌtreɪlər/
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semirremolque
- One ethanol plant manager in the Midwest has calculated that fueling an ethanol plant with switchgrass, a much-discussed alternative, would require delivering a semitrailer truckload of the grass every six minutes, 24 hours a day.
- semitrailer truck
- driver of a semitrailer
- semitrailer loaded
Examples
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Each week, one Tlaquepaque-based shop owner sends four semitrailers full of furniture through Laredo to his stores in Oakland, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, and other cities in the United States (McCleary 1998).
Academic text (2002) -
A loaded semitrailer arrived at the warehouse, ready to unload shipments of goods.
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When the milk comes in, it comes in on a semitrailer.
Fiction book (1996) -
With the amount of hardware they're running, we're probably looking for a large vehicle, most likely a semitrailer rig.
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He could see behind her the lights of the semitrailer trucks moving like ghosts along the highway.
Fiction book (1990) -
Semitrailers brushed past me, unaware that I was not merely driving, but that I was completing my own great voyage around the world.
Blog text (30) -
My informant sends shipments via truck from Guadalajara every six weeks, usually filling about half of a semitrailer.
Academic text (2002) -
The old Chevy pickup looked small beside a huge semitrailer rig roaring into Winterset, spraying a wave of road water over the last cowboy.
Fiction book (1992) -
A recent study by the Clean Air Task Force, a U.S. nonprofit environmental research organization, estimated that retrofitting one million semitrailer trucks with these filters would yield the same benefits for the climate over 20 years as permanently removing over 165,000 trucks or 5.7 million cars from the road.
Academic text (2009) -
The wood, which generators must keep clean and separated by type of species, is vacuumed into waiting semitrailers that are regularly picked up and taken to the AWF plant for unloading by conveyor belt.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
30
4.2
A very large truck or its trailer used to carry goods
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word semitrailer comes from semi- meaning 'half' and trailer from 'to trail', which means 'to follow' or hang behind. So a semitrailer is like a 'half' trailer because its front rests on the truck that pulls it rather than on its own wheels.