Meaning of "tractor" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TRACTOR

From Late Latin: one who pulls, from trahere to drag.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF TRACTOR

tractor  [ˈtræktə]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TRACTOR

Tractor is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TRACTOR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Tractor

A tractor is an engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a trailer or machinery used in agriculture or construction. Most commonly, the term is used to describe a farm vehicle that provides the power and traction to mechanize agricultural tasks, especially tillage, but nowadays a great variety of tasks. Agricultural implements may be towed behind or mounted on the tractor, and the tractor may also provide a source of power if the implement is mechanised. The word tractor was taken from Latin, being the agent noun of trahere "to pull". The first recorded use of the word meaning "an engine or vehicle for pulling wagons or ploughs" occurred in 1901, displacing the earlier term "traction engine".

Definition of tractor in the English dictionary

The first definition of tractor in the dictionary is a motor vehicle used to pull heavy loads, esp farm machinery such as a plough or harvester. It usually has two large rear wheels with deeply treaded tyres. Other definition of tractor is a short motor vehicle with a powerful engine and a driver's cab, used to pull a trailer, as in an articulated lorry. Tractor is also an aircraft with its propeller or propellers mounted in front of the engine.

TRANSLATION OF TRACTOR

Find out the translation of tractor to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of tractor from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tractor» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 拖拉机
• Translator English - Spanish: tractor
• English: tractor
• Translator English - Hindi: ट्रेक्टर
• Translator English - Arabic: جَرَّار
• Translator English - Russian: трактор
• Translator English - Portuguese: trator
• Translator English - Bengali: ট্র্যাক্টর
• Translator English - French: tracteur
• Translator English - Malay: Traktor
• Translator English - German: Traktor
• Translator English - Japanese: トラクター
• Translator English - Korean: 트랙터
• Translator English - Javanese: Traktor
• Translator English - Vietnamese: máy kéo
• Translator English - Tamil: டிராக்டர்
• Translator English - Marathi: ट्रॅक्टर
• Translator English - Turkish: traktör
• Translator English - Italian: trattore
• Translator English - Polish: traktor
• Translator English - Ukrainian: трактор
• Translator English - Romanian: tractor
• Translator English - Greek: τρακτέρ
• Translator English - Afrikaans: trekker
• Translator English - Swedish: traktor
• Translator English - Norwegian: traktor

10 QUOTES WITH «TRACTOR»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word tractor.

1

Dick Armey

Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.

2

Bill Bryson

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

3

Les Claypool

I enjoy my John Deere tractor quite a lot. It's a tool that I must use to keep Mother Nature at bay. I have all kinds of things encroaching on my property.

4

Sheri L. Dew

I drove a tractor almost as soon as I could reach the pedals.

5

Michael Fassbender

Why does a three-year-old, and it's usually boys, want to drive the tractor or have machinery and be in control of it? I don't know. Why wouldn't you ask to boil a kettle or something? Maybe you would, I dunno.

6

Bob Feller

My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time.

7

Zach Galifianakis

I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.

8

Michael Gove

Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.

9

Chuck Grassley

Maybe I should just go home and ride my tractor.

10

Mike Greenberg

I would say my first golf memory was asking who Arnold Palmer was when he was always on the Pennzoil commercials. When I was a little kid I watched a lot of sports, but I didn't watch a lot of golf, and this guy was always on a tractor.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRACTOR»

Discover the use of tractor in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tractor and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

How to Restore Your Farm Tractor

"Farmall, Ford, John Deere, International, Case, Allis-Chalmers, Minneapolis-Moline, Oliver, Orphan Makes, and more." "Techniques for authentic show and work tractor restoration."

Robert N. Pripps, 1992

Tractor

Take your baby on a touch and feel adventure on a Tractor.Stroke, tickle and touch the textures together with your baby and help them discover all about tractors.

Kindersley Dorling, Dawn Sirett, Charlie Gardner, 2011

Tractor

A farmer uses his tractor to prepare the soil, plant seeds, harvest corn, and haul it away to be sold.

‎1995

Trucking: Tractor-Trailer Driver

This edition delivers not only the technical content tractor-trailer drivers need to become skilled professionals, but also the healthful habits and "best practices" that can lead to improved safety and well-being.

Alice Adams, 2005

Truck and Tractor Pulling

Explains the sport of truck and tractor pulling, looking at competitions, different types of trucks and tractors, and safety issues

Jeff Savage, 1995

Tractor Pull - Ecs

Presents a collection of full-color and black-and-white illustrated photographs describing the history of tractor pulling from its earliest days to the monster machines seen at contests today.

Scott Webb, Joe Egli, 2004

The American Farm Tractor

Best-selling author Randy Leffingwell researched and photographed restored classics and one-of-a-kind experimental models from coast-to-coast to deliver the goods on American farm tractor. This is the book that started it all!

Randy Leffingwell, 2002

Johnny Tractor and the Big Surprise

Johnny Tractor and Allie Gator have a lot of chores to do on the farm, but when a sack of seeds go missing, they must find it, and are not sure they will get their tasks done on time.

Judy Katschke, 2006

The Big Red Tractor and the Little Village

This contemporary parable about spiritual empowerment shares a timeless truth: God has a special purpose for you which can be unlocked through the instruction manual for how you operate which he has left for you.

Francis Chan, 2010

The Rusty, Trusty Tractor

Mr. Hill of Hill's Tractor Sales bets Micah's Grandpappy that his rusty old tractor won't make it through another hay season, but Micah learns that Grandpappy's tractor, like an old friend, doesn't let him down

‎1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRACTOR»

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Stolen tractor rips through 2 Tucson houses, starts fire

Two homes were damaged and two families were displaced when a stolen tractor struck one house then another early this morning on Tucson's southeast side. «Arizona Daily Star, Jul 15»

Tractor-trailer hitches could be faulty

BATAVIA, Ohio — On a twisty, snow-lined hill that the locals call “Devil's Backbone,” a 12-ton semitrailer came loose from its tractor and plowed into an ... «mySanAntonio.com, Jul 15»

South Texas farmer in field dies in bee attack near tractor

A South Texas farmer died Sunday after being overwhelmed by hundreds of bees while using a tractor on his field near Rio Hondo. According to his family, ... «Daily Mail, Jun 15»

Teal David killed by tractor driven by father in North Wales

Her father, San Francisco-born vet Evan David, is understood to have been driving the tractor when the accident occurred on a quiet, country lane at around ... «Daily Mail, Jun 15»

'Horrific' crash with bus, tractor-trailer on Hwy. 401 leaves four …

“It was horrific,” said Kelly, who was sitting in the middle of the upper level of the double-decker Megabus that collided with a tractor-trailer on Highway 401 near ... «Toronto Star, Jun 15»

Big tractor stolen from Utah construction site, reported miles away

SALT LAKE CITY – Someone stole a large tractor from a Salt Lake City construction site and apparently parked it briefly in front of a suburban home. Officials ... «Fox News, Jun 15»

UPDATE: 3 dead in Pa. tour bus, tractor trailer crash

Authorities say a tour bus collided head-on with a tractor trailer around 10 a.m. along ... The tractor trailer was traveling southbound on Interstate 380 south of ... «WGAL Lancaster, Jun 15»

Five dead on Georgia interstate after 'driver of tractor-trailer falls …

Witnesses told authorities they saw a tractor-trailer 'drifting in and out of lanes' before colliding with cars in front of it and catching fire around 1.50pm, Revenew ... «Daily Mail, May 15»

Train hits trailer of farm tractor in Germany, kills 2

BERLIN — A train hit the trailer of a tractor Saturday at a road crossing in western Germany, killing the train's driver and one passenger and injuring at least 20 ... «Tribune-Review, May 15»

Tractor manufacturer Kubota follows Toyota out of Torrance to Texas …

Kubota Tractor Corporation and Kubota Credit Corporation announced today that they will relocate their headquarters to Grapevine, Texas. The company is ... «The Daily Breeze, May 15»