• enPR: văn, IPA: /væn/

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. (British) An enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods.
3. (UK, dated) A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others for the transportation of goods.
4. (aerospace) 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.

• French: fourgon, fourgonnette, camionnette
• German: Transporter, Lieferwagen
• Italian: furgone
• Portuguese: furgão, van
• Russian: фурго́н
• Spanish: furgoneta, furgón, van

• Italian: vagone merci
• Portuguese: vagão
• Russian: ваго́н
• Spanish: vagón

van (vans, present participle vanning; past and past participle vanned)

1. (transitive) To transport in a van or similar vehicle (especially of horses).
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.

van (plural vans)

1. Clipping of vanguard#English|vanguard.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify ), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292 ↗:

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     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.

van (plural vans)

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

van (vans, present participle vanning; past and past participle vanned)

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

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 {{...}

• vane

• IPA: /væn/

1. A male given name.

1. A female given name.

1. A large saline tectonic lake of the Armenian Highland in eastern Turkey lakes, famous for its Chalcalburnus tarichi (syn. Alburnus tarichi) fish and the 10th century Armenian cathedral on Akhtamar Island.
2. A city on the shore of that lake.

• German: Van
• Russian: Ван

• German: Van
• Russian: Ван

1. Abbreviation of Vancouver#English|Vancouver.

• East Van
• North Van
• South Van
• West Van

van (plural vans)

1. A Van cat.
2. A Turkish Van cat.

van (plural vans)

1. Abbreviation of value-added network.

1. Abbreviation of Vancouver#English|Vancouver.

• (Vancouver) YVR