van

• enPR: văn, IPA^(key): /væn/

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• Rhymes: -æn

Short for caravan.

van (plural vans)

1. A covered vehicle used for carrying goods or people, usually roughly cuboid in shape, longer and higher than a car but smaller than a truck/lorry.

   The van sped down the road.

2. (Britain) An enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods.
3. (Britain, dated) A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others for the transportation of goods.
4. (aeronautics, space) A large towable vehicle equipped for the repair of structures that cannot easily be moved.
   • 1959, Western Aerospace (volume 39, page 46)

     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.

van (third-person singular simple present vans, present participle vanning, simple past and past participle vanned)

1. (transitive) To transport in a van or similar vehicle (especially of horses).
   • 1966, United States Congress, Senate, Committee on Commerce, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     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.

   • 1999, Bonnie Bryant, Changing Leads, page 53:

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

2. (Internet slang, used in passive voice) Of law enforcement: to arrest (not necessarily in a van; derived from party van).
   • 2011 The hackers hacked: main Anonymous IRC servers invaded

     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.)

   • 2012 FBI names, arrests Anon who infiltrated its secret conference call

     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.

   • 2013 Redditor Confesses to Murder with Meme, Gets Doxed by Other Redditors, Deletes His Account and Disappears

     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.

   • 2016 Teen Allegedly Behind CIA, FBI Breaches: 'They're Trying to Ruin My Life.'

     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.)

   • 2017 Dark Ops: An Anonymous Story page 8

     Commander X: Yep, so now you all know how I got vanned. And you just met the snitch who did it to me.

• v&

• lorry
• transit (UK)
• truck

Shortening of vanguard.

van (plural vans)

1. Clipping of vanguard.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost‎, book 5, lines 588–590:

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

   • 1698, Ned Ward, The London Spy:

     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 […]

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292:

     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.

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:

     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.

   • 1965, Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan, “Virāṭa Parva”, in The Mahābhārata, book 4, 33, page 84:

     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.”

From Cornish.

van (plural vans)

1. (mining) A shovel used in cleansing ore.

van (third-person singular simple present vans, present participle vanning, simple past and past participle vanned)

1. (mining) To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Raymond to this entry?)

From Latin vannus (“a van, or fan for winnowing grain”): compare French van and English fan, winnow.

van (plural vans)

1. A fan or other contrivance, such as a sieve, for winnowing grain.
2. A wing with which the air is beaten.
   • 1671, John Milton, “Book the Fourth”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: Printed by J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398, lines 578–580, pages 108–109:

     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 […]

   • 1717, John Dryden, Ovid's Metamorphoses, book XII:

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

   • 1930, T.S. Eliot, Ash Wednesday:

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

• van at OneLook Dictionary Search
• van in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

• AVN, NAV, nav

From Dutch van (“from; of”).

• IPA^(key): /fan/

van

1. of
2. from

van

1. (used with a following definite article) some of (the)

   Van die wêreld se beste wyne kom van hierdie streek af.

   Some of the world’s best wines are from this region.

   Ons het met van die belangrikste politieke leiers gespreek.

   We have spoken to some of the most important political leaders.

From French vent.

van

1. air
2. wind
3. breath
4. intestinal gas

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈvan/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈban/

van

1. third-person plural present indicative form of anar

From Old Norse vanr (pl vanir (“one of two groups of gods in Norse mythology”)).

• IPA^(key): /vaːn/, [væːˀn]

van c (singular definite vanen, plural indefinite vaner)

1. one of the Vanir

From English van.

• IPA^(key): /vaːn/, [væːn]

van c (singular definite vanen, plural indefinite vaner)

1. van

From Old Norse vanr (“wont, accustomed”).

• IPA^(key): /van/, [van]

van

1. (dated) pleje van – nurse, take care of

• Has been replaced by vant ("usual", "customary").

From Middle Dutch van, from Old Dutch fan (“from”), from Proto-Germanic *fanē, from Proto-Indo-European *pone, *pana (“from”), from Proto-Indo-European *apo-, *pā- (“off, of”). Cognate with Old Saxon fana, fan (“from”), Old Frisian fan, fon (“from”), Old High German fona, fon (“from”).

• IPA^(key): /vɑn/
• (Northern) [fɑn]
• (Suriname) [fan]

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• Hyphenation: van
• Rhymes: -ɑn

van

1. of (possession, property)

   de hoed van het meisje

   the hat of the girl

   het gewicht van een olifant

   the weight of an elephant

2. of (general association)

   Zij was van adel.

   She was of noble stock.

   een stad van één miljoen inwoners

   a city of one million inhabitants

   Hij is een man van eer.

   He's a man of honour.

   Dat is hier niet van toepassing.

   That's not applicable here.

   de trein van tien uur

   the train of ten o'clock

3. by, of (creator)

   een schilderij van Rubens

   a painting by Rubens

   een plaat van de Beatles

   a record of the Beatles

4. from (origin)

   Hij komt van Griekenland.

   He's from Greece.

5. from (starting point of a movement or change)

   Hij ging van deur tot deur.

   He went from door to door.

   van vader op zoon.

   from father to son.

6. from (starting point in time)

   van toen af aan.

   from then onwards

   van 's avonds laat tot 's morgens vroeg

   from late at night till the early morning

   van dag tot dag

   from day to day

7. from, off (removal of something from off something else)

   het vlees van de beenderen snijden.

   to cut the meat from the bones

8. of, out of, from, with (cause)

   sidderen van angst

   to tremble with fear

   tranen van geluk

   tears of joy

9. of, out of, with (material or resource)

   Deze tafel is gemaakt van hout.

   This table is made (out) of wood.

   Van dit geld kan ik een basgitaar kopen.

   With this money I'm able to buy a bass.

10. of, out of, among (out of a larger whole; partitive)

    de jongste van zijn dochters

    the youngest of his daughters

    Van alle mensen ben ik de mooiste.

    Out of all people I am the most beautiful.

    Drink niet te veel van dat bier, het is erg sterk.

    Don't drink too much of that beer, it is very strong.

11. from, was, formerly (indicating a change in price)

    van 5 €, voor 3 €

    was €5, now €3

12. (colloquial) like (introduces a quotation)

• Afrikaans: van

van

1. of, from

   Ik neem er tien van. — I’ll take ten of them.

2. from

   Ik vertrek van daar. — I’ll start from there.

3. by, from

   Ik word er gek van. — It drives me crazy.

   Men wordt daar sloom van. — It turns one numb.

4. of, about

   Wat zegt u daar van? — What do you say about that?

   Ik weet daar niks van. — I don’t know anything about that.

• daarvan
• ervan

van m (plural vans or vannen)

1. A surname beginning with the preposition van.
2. Any surname.

   Synonyms: achternaam, familienaam

• uit

Latin vannus

• IPA^(key): /vɑ̃/

van m (plural vans)

1. a winnowing basket

• “van” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From a variant of Old Portuguese vão, from Latin vānus (“empty”)

van m (feminine singular va, masculine plural vans, feminine plural vas)

1. empty, devoid of content, containing only air
2. useless, ineffective
3. (of a person) vacuous, trivial-minded

van m (plural vans)

1. waist
2. empty, vacant

van

1. third-person plural present indicative of ir

van m (plural vans)

1. (agriculture) winnowing machine

From French vent (“wind”)

van

1. wind

From Old Hungarian vagyon. See Hungarian volt.

• Forms beginning with v- are from Proto-Finno-Ugric *wole- (“to be”). Cognate with Mansi о̄луӈкве (ōluňkve), Finnish olla and Estonian olema. Compare inflected forms such as volt, volna, való and Old Hungarian vola or vala. The root in present tense (vagy-) is result of palatization: /vɒl/ > /vɒʎ/ > /vɒj/ > /vɒɟ/.

• Forms beginning with l- are from Proto-Finno-Ugric *le- (“to become”). Cognate with Finnish lienee (potential of olla), Karelian lienöy (potential of olla), Northern Sami leat.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɒn]

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van

1. be, exist
2. have; someone (-nak/-nek) has something (-ja/-je/-a/-e)

   Péternek van egy kutyája.

   Peter has a dog.

3. there is

   Van itt valaki?

   Is there anybody here?

4. to be (auxiliary verb indicating a type of passive voice along with the adverbial participle form of the main verb)

   A probléma még nincs megoldva.

   The question isn't yet solved.

   1846, Arany János, Toldi,, canto 6, stanza 13:

   "Szakmány módra van rám mérve minden óra: / Jöttem kegyelmedhez búcsuvevő szóra."

   "Every hour is measured as though by contract. / I come to bid you now farewell."

• Omission of van and vannak:

  When used with an adjective (qualification) or a noun (whether with the definite or the indefinite article), i.e. when it answers the question who? or what? (including what...like?) or which?, the (indicative present third-person) forms van and vannak are omitted:

  Béla okos. - Béla is clever.

  Béla a király. - Béla is the king.

  Béla egy ember. - Béla is a human.

  On the other hand, if is or are answers the question where? or how?, these verb forms will appear as usual:

  Béla itt van. - Béla is here.

  Béla jól van. - Béla is (feeling) well.

  It also appears if van/vannak is the focus of the sentence. This happens when the sentence means that the property described by the adjective (e.g. strength) reaches or exceeds some specified level and this is emphasized by the speaker. In this case, the adjective is preceded by a word like olyan (such), annyira (that much), elég (enough).

  Béla van annyira erős, hogy felemelje a szekrényt. - Béla is strong enough to lift the cupboard.

  The forms other than van and vannak are always used.

  Béla okos volt. - Béla was clever.

  Okos vagyok. - I am clever.

  Otherwise, all forms are used:

  With adverbs and adverbial participles (suffixed -va/-ve)

  Hogy van? - How is he? (also 'How are you?', formal singular)

  El van törve. - It is broken.

  Using in the "exists" or "there is" sense (and so with have, which is expressed by there is in Hungarian)

  Van egy ház a hegyen. - There is a house on the mountain.

  Van egy kutyám. - I have a dog.

• The negative form is nincs or nincsen and sincs or sincsen (the latter two expressing 'is not...either').

  Nincs pénzem. - I don't have any money.

  Itt sincs étel. - There isn't any food here either.

  If the predicate includes an adjective or a noun, that is, if it answers the question who, what etc. (see above), the third person present forms are omitted again, only nem remains:

  Béla nem tanár. - Béla is not a teacher.

• (exist): létezik

• nincs

• vanni

(With verbal prefixes):

• elvan
• hátravan
• kivan
• megvan
• odavan

van (comparative plus van, superlative le plus van)

1. vain, futile
2. vain, worthless
3. vain, conceited

Borrowed from English van.

van f (genitive singular van, plural vannyn)

1. van (vehicle)

• carr

From Old Dutch fan, from Proto-Germanic *fanē.

van

1. of
2. from (a place, person)
3. from (a time)
4. out of
5. from, out of, because of

• Dutch: van
  • Afrikaans: van
• Limburgish: ven

• “van”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “van (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

van f (plural vans)

1. van (a covered vehicle used for carrying goods)

• furgão

Borrowed from Latin vānus, Italian vano.

• IPA^(key): /van/

van m or n (feminine singular vană, masculine plural vani, feminine and neuter plural vane)

1. vain
2. futile
3. idle
4. fruitless
5. vainglorious

• în van

• vanitate

• inutil, infructuos, vanitos
• în zadar
• zadarnic

From Proto-Slavic *vъnъ

• IPA^(key): /ʋân/

vȁn (Cyrillic spelling ва̏н)

1. except

From Proto-Slavic *vъnъ

• IPA^(key): /ʋân/

vȁn (Cyrillic spelling ва̏н) (+ genitive case)

1. outside, out

   van kuće ― outside, outdoors

2. out of

   van zemlje ― abroad

From Proto-Slavic *vъnъ

• IPA^(key): /ʋâːn/
• Rhymes: -âːn

vȃn (Cyrillic spelling ва̑н)

1. out, outside, outdoors

From Latin vadunt, third-person plural present indicative of vadō (“I go”).

• IPA^(key): /ban/, [bãn]

van

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present indicative form of ir.
2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present indicative form of ir.

van m (plural vanes)

1. van (vehicle)

From Old Norse vanr, from Proto-Germanic *wanaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wāno-.

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van (comparative vanare, superlative vanast)

1. accustomed to; used to, have the habit to

   Han är van vid att stiga upp klockan sju varje morgon.

   “He is used to getting up at seven every morning.”

2. experienced, adept

   Hon är en van bilförare.

   “She is an experienced driver.”

• ovan

• med van hand

• vana
• vänja
• ovana

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [vaːn˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [vaːŋ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [vaːŋ˧˧] ~ [jaːŋ˧˧]

van (呅, 𠹚, 𠺺)

1. to beg, to implore

Borrowed from French valve.

van

1. valve

Borrowed from French valse.

van

1. waltz