tractor
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2.3
- noun
- /ˈtræktər/
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tractor
- This tractor is powerful enough to haul heavy equipment across the farm.
- farm tractor
- drive a tractor
- use a tractor
Farm traffic tractors should not be on the road, OK?
- Farm traffic tractors should not be on the road, OK?
- So I was like I would have to overtake horses, tractors, combine harvesters.
- I saw a lady on a tractor getting run away from the police.
- I'm like, then you got like, wait a minute, would you drive a tractor, a rickshaw?
- Do you have horse drawn rototillers or a tractor?
- I can see that there's a farmer's tractor there.
- At one point I got hit by a tractor, big injuries and we would.
- My name is Marcus, and I got a tractor.
- But a lot of new low skilled jobs were created in factories, like the tractor replaced you on the farm.
- But obviously every farmer with a tractor is also a farmer.
Examples
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I walked back to the barn, and I could hear the tractor going about its business.
Fiction book (1992) -
Well, I used to help fix tractors on my family's farm back home.
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But at any event, this is me driving a tractor with my sister.
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I think that we'll use the tractor for taking the pieces away.
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This is way faster than our tractor.
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But obviously every farmer with a tractor is also a farmer.
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He was kind enough to come and help Dad with the tractor this morning.
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But running his tractor was fun, and that's how I learned to drive.
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Small growers complain that one tractor is insufficient for the needs of 300 members.
Academic text (1990) -
Clint said you wouldn't mind, but our tractor doesn't seem to want to start at all.
Synonyms
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1.6
A machine like a car or bus that carries people and goods
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2.6
A machine with wheels that carries people or goods
A vehicle like a tractor that helps plow, plant, or harvest crops on a farm
Compounds
- Slang
A large luxury vehicle like an SUV that people drive in cities and suburbs, not off-road
How Powerful
Surface Forms
Morphology
tractor = tract (opaque) = tract + or
Although the word is historically built from a tract- root plus the agentive suffix -or, the modern English noun tract does not transparently convey the sense 'puller' to an average learner.
Etymology
Tractor comes from the root tract, which means 'to pull'. So a tractor is a 'puller' on the farm, a strong machine that pulls plows, trailers, and hay bales.