Value Added Network. Private network operated by a company to transport information between subscribers.

Value Added Network - An EDI service provider that transmits, receives, and stores EDI messages for EDI trading partners, as well as a wide variety of other EDI related functions.

A communication network that provides features other than transmission of information, such as translation of one type of computer signal to another type of computer signal ( protocol conversion). VAN sometimes refers to packet-switched networks with protocol conversion (dissimilar system interface capability).

Veterans' Affairs Network (see section 19.10).

trailer specially designed to be towed by a Rail Motor and is used to carry parcels.

Horse truck with large box holding several horses.

Delivery truck

A box-shaped, light truck with a forward cab.

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

a trailer (if you are from USA or Canada), type of accomodation that you pull behind the car, full name is caravan.

He was driving the black Cadillac that picked up Lance as he was fleeing the FBI. He crashed the car into the lobby of the Mirage at high speed, and then led Lance through the panicked crowd across the street to the Bellagio.

a large box-shaped car for carrying lots of people

A shovel used in cleansing ore.

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

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

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

Largely Armenian province in Turkish Anatolia. The site of the first large-scale Turkish massacre of Armenians in early April 1915. The city of Van itself was besieged by Turkish forces later the same month, but was relieved by Russian forces in May.

a type of coat pattern consisting of a white body with a colored tail and colored spots on the head.

An almost white cat with colour patches only on the head and tail

or van pattern: A color pattern which restricts color to the head and the tail, leaving the body and most of the extremities white. Most standards for this pattern allow for no more than two small spots of color on the body. The name comes from the Turkish Van breed, which always exhibit this pattern.

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.

the leading units moving at the head of an army

The foremost division of a fleet in one line. It is likewise applied to the foremost ship of a division.