Definition of Van

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Definition of Van

Van

The front of an army; the first line or leading column; also, the front line or foremost division of a fleet, either in sailing or in battle.

A shovel used in cleansing ore.

To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.

A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others fore the transportation of goods.

A large covered wagon for moving furniture, etc., also for conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition.

A close railway car for baggage. See the Note under Car, 2.

A fan or other contrivance, as a sieve, for winnowing grain.

A wing with which the air is beaten.

To fan, or to cleanse by fanning; to winnow.

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Van Quotations

Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me.
Andrew Jackson

I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.
Jim Carrey

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.
Stephen Fry

I know when I go outside, there'll be a van or two and they'll probably follow us four out of seven days a week, trying to get something. But I'm just going across town and I know they're just wasting their day, so it doesn't bother me anymore.
Brad Pitt

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
Eddie Van Halen

When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.
Sammy Hagar

When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band.
Sammy Hagar

Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it's sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later.
Sammy Hagar

If I would have ever dreamed that I wouldn't be in Van Halen anymore and was going to have resume my solo career again, I would have never contributed anything towards my own greatest hits package.
Sammy Hagar

In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang 'em, I gave myself goosebumps.
Sammy Hagar

Van Translations

van in Dutch is bestelauto, bestelwagen
van in German is Lastwagen
van in Portuguese is camionete
van in Spanish is furgoneta

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