caterpillar
3
8.7
- noun
- /ˈkætərˌpɪlər/
- US
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tractor de orugas
- It ran on caterpillar treads and looked like a flatbed truck put together in reverse, with the high cab at the back.
- caterpillar tractor
- caterpillar tracks
- giant caterpillar
And then if you're Caterpillar, John Deere, you're buying a lot of steel.
- And then if you're Caterpillar, John Deere, you're buying a lot of steel.
- So to them, competition is day-to-day, Komatsu versus Caterpillar, Ford versus Toyota, Toyota versus Honda, Nissan.
- You know, he's over there at the Caterpillar plant and he's over there, you know, doing booty over there and wanting, you know, by pay by the hour.
Examples
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Engage caterpillar and secure main engines.
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Ferno representatives demonstrated the chair with the innovative caterpillar tracks, like the ones on a tank.
Blog text (17) -
Captain, we will have to stop until we can repair the caterpillar unit.
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The caterpillar is operational and appears to be running normally.
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Well get a caterpillar up there, we gotta get her fixed by noon.
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These days, he patches up trucks, road graders, and Caterpillars for his son's sand and gravel business.
Blog text (23) -
The sandy area was hilly, but Eric couldn't decide if they were natural dunes or man-made because trucks kept bringing in more sand, and a yellow caterpillar was pushing it into heaps.
Fiction book (1997) -
The road crossed over a wide culvert, and the old man saw four tanks moving quickly between the fields, hatches open and commanders on the machine guns, shields yellow and brown with caked mud, long cannons pointing north, clanking caterpillar tracks kicking up dust.
Fiction book (1992) -
The construction site was busy with several caterpillars moving dirt and supplies.
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To build the foundation, the workers used a powerful caterpillar to shift heavy materials.
Synonyms
20
8.1
A large vehicle with metal tracks used to move earth
Compounds
- Specialized
A continuous metal or rubber belt around a vehicle's wheels that helps it move over rough ground
- Specialized
A continuous metal belt that helps vehicles like tanks and bulldozers move over rough ground
- Specialized
A vehicle with long tracks instead of wheels for moving over rough ground
- Specialized
A young stage of a moth that lives in groups and eats leaves, leaving a flat web like a carpet
- Specialized
A young insect that becomes a moth and has flaps of skin along its sides
A hairy caterpillar with thick, stiff hairs that turns into a small moth
How Big
Surface Forms
Etymology
Caterpillar for a tracked vehicle comes from the insect: people noticed the machine's long tracks and slow 'crawl' and compared it to a caterpillar, so the word came to mean heavy machines that move on continuous tracks.