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Definition: Tractor |
TractorNoun1. A wheeled vehicle with large wheels; used in farming and other applications. 2. A truck that has a cab but no body; used for pulling large trailers or vans. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tractor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1939. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Transportation | Wheeled or track-laying vehicle constructed for hauling or pushing another vehicle. Source: European Union. (references) |
Computing | The paper has marginal hole punches which fit into a -to draw the paper through the printer. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A self-propelled vehicle--which may be mounted on crawler tracks, on wheels with large pneumatic tires, or on a mixture of both--intended for moving itself and other vehicles. See also:wheeled tractor;mine tractor. (references) |
Shipping | Unit of highway motive power used to pull one or more trailers/containers. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A tractor (from latin trahere) is a device intended for drawing, towing or pulling something which cannot propell itself.
Most commonly the word is used to describe a vehicle intended for such a task on some other vehicle or object.
Most common of these is a tractor designed for use on farms, typically a simple open vehicle with very large driving wheels and one seat, used for pulling agricultural machinery over rough ground, ploughing, harrowing and similar tasks. Most farm tractors have a means to transfer the engine's power to another machine such as a baler or reaper.
A less-well-used term is used to describe road tractors, which are heavy-duty vehicles with large engines and several axles. These tractors are designed to pull long road trailers, most often for the transport of freight of some kind over a significant distance (See Semi-trailer).
Other forms of tractor include artillery tractors, highly-specialised vehicles used to tow guns of varying weights.
Of non-vehicles, a tractor is a part of printer that pulls the paper inside and pushes it outside of the printer.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tractor."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Vehicle | Tractor, steamshovel, backhoe, fork lift, earth mover, dump truck, bulldozer, grader, caterpillar, trench digger, steamroller; pile driver; crane, wrecking crane. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Our early attempts for a tractor beam went through several preparations (Austin Powers in Goldmember; writing credit: Mike Myers) I got gonorrhea from a tractor. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) Tore up the fields, turned over a tractor and everything (Footloose; writing credit: Dean Pitchford) You know, Scott, when I was your age I was pulling on myself harder than a tractor pulling Arkansas (Fathers' Day; writing credit: Francis Veber) All right, now, watch out for the tractor. Watch out for the tractor, Michael (Road to Perdition; writing credit: Max Allan Collins; Richard Piers Rayner) | |
Lyrics | Looking at the shiny red tractor (Birdland; performing artist: Patti Smith) Oh I know your back hurts from working on the tractor (WHERE HAVE ALL THE COWBOYS GONE?; performing artist: Paula Cole) | |
Tongue Twisters | Hi-Tech Traveling Tractor Trailor Truck Tracker (references; author: unknown) Tacky tractor trailer trucks. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Once Upon a Tractor (1965) The Red Tractor (1964) Truck and Tractor Pulls (2003) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Tobacco farmer on tractor in tobacco field. Credit: CDC. |  | Don't drink and drive - Bob Pryce on tractor in central Alaska. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Shrine to _____ Williams who lost his life during Navy Antarctic operations in the 1950's when his tractor broke through the sea ice and he was drowned. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Using a caterpillar tractor to launch a survey boat. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Tractor. Credit: USDA. |  | New orange trees are straightened, staked, and pruned by workers riding only inches above the ground pulled by a slowly moving tractor. The tractor is driven not from the conventional drivers's seat perched high over the rear wheels, but by one of the workers below, using an extra steering wheel and control. Credit: USDA. |
 | Tractor on Ben Burkette farm in Perry County, MS. Credit: USDA. |  | Tractor with a baler to bale pine needles for mulch on the South Central Family Farms Research Center in Boonesville, AR. Credit: USDA. |
 | Migrant farm worker hauls apples with tractor near Winchester, VA. Credit: USDA. |  | Tractor PlowRange Restoration ProjectLower Snake River District. Credit: Mike Pellant. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Tractor" by Roland Peschetz Commentary: "A tractor in Connemara, Ireland." | "Old John Deere Tractor" by Persist Persist Commentary: "A John Deere tractor in Illinois." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Bill Hicks | I'll tell you, too, that's starting to depress me about UFO's, about the fact that they cross galaxies, or wherever they come from to visit us, and always end up in places like Fife, Alabama. Maybe these are not super-intelligent beings, man. Maybe they're like hillbilly aliens. Some intergalactic Joad family or something. "Don't you all want to land in New York, or L.A.?" "Nah, we just had a long trip, we gonna kick back and whittle some." Oh, my God, they're idiots. "We're gonna enter our mothership in the tractor pull!" My God, we're being invaded by rednecks. My biggest fear. Last thing I want to see is a flying saucer up on blocks in front of some trailer, you know? Wouldn't that be depressing? Some bumper sticker on it - "They'll get my ray gun when they pry my cold, dead, eighteen-fingered hand off of it." |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | A tractor and a superintendent |
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Business | This is a density of just over 100 hectares per tractor. (references) | |
Tractor sales constitute the bulk (60%) of the total agricultural equipment market. (references) | ||
There exists one tractor for each 12.9 production units, or one tractor for each 104.8 arable hectares. (references) | ||
Economic History | Ukraine | In 1998 and 1999, they sold eight grain harvesters, eight plows, and one tractor. (references) |
Political Economy | ROMANIA | Meanwhile, industrial direct or indirect subsidies such as soft loans are still largely concentrated in loss-making industries such as truck and tractor construction. (references) |
Travel | Chad | Tractor trailers and pickup trucks are the usual means of transport between N'Djamena and most other towns. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tractor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.81% of the time. "Tractor" is used about 521 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.81% | 520 | 11,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.19% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 521 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Tractor Supply Company |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "tractor": caterpillar tractor ♦ light tractor ♦ motor and tractor ♦ motor tractor ♦ tractor airplane ♦ Tractor biplane ♦ tractor construction ♦ tractor driver ♦ tractor feed ♦ Tractor monoplane ♦ tractor propeller ♦ Tractor screw ♦ tractor trailer ♦ truck tractor ♦ walking tractor. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tractor": tractor-beam, tractor-belt-driven, tractor-driven, tractor-driving, tractor-feed, tractor-fuel, tractor-handling, tractor-lawnmower, tractor-load, tractor-mounted, tractor-mower, tractor-path, tractor-pulling, tractor-rutted, tractor-shed, Tractor-trailer. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
tractor | 4,727 | pull tractor | 398 |
lawn tractor | 2,522 | tractor sale | 377 |
tractor supply | 1,970 | tractor trailer | 365 |
john deere tractor | 1,850 | tractor pulling | 363 |
ford tractor | 1,251 | tractor supply co | 343 |
antique tractor | 1,047 | farmall tractor | 341 |
used tractor | 1,018 | ford tractor part | 336 |
tractor part | 1,007 | oliver tractor | 275 |
farm tractor | 960 | international tractor | 272 |
tractor supply company | 900 | ford 8n tractor | 253 |
kubota tractor | 846 | simplicity tractor | 246 |
garden tractor | 844 | used farm tractor | 227 |
yesterday tractor | 766 | tractor suppply company | 225 |
toy tractor | 661 | murray lawn tractor | 219 |
compact tractor | 523 | used tractor part | 219 |
new holland tractor | 506 | mahindra tractor | 213 |
case tractor | 478 | kioti tractor | 200 |
yanmar tractor | 473 | old tractor | 174 |
john deere lawn tractor | 446 | gravely tractor | 172 |
tractor tire | 413 | cub cadet tractor | 162 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "tractor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | traktor (agrimotor), avion (aircraft, airplane, craft, machine, ship, vessel). (various references) | |
Arabic | قاطرة مدسرتها أمام أجنحتها, تراكتور (caterpillar), جرارة (bulldozer, caterpillar), الجرار. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | самолет със предно витло, трактор (agrimotor), влекач (traction engine, tug, tugboat). (various references) | |
Chinese | 拖曳機 , 拖拉机, 拖拉機 . (various references) | |
Czech | traktor, tahaè. (various references) | |
Danish | traktortrukket (walking tractor), traktor. (various references) | |
Dutch | trekker (bolt, catch, click, drawer, latch, pawl, pin, rack element, ratchet, squeegee, trigger), tractor. (various references) | |
Esperanto | traktoro. (various references) | |
Farsi | گاواهن موتوری , تراکتوریاماشین شخم زنی . (various references) | |
Finnish | traktori (caterpillar tractor). (various references) | |
French | tracteur. (various references) | |
German | Traktor, Zugmaschine (motor tractor, towing vehicle, traction engine), Schlepper (hauler, haulers, tout, tug, tugboat), Trecker, Stachelwalze, Stachelrad (pin wheel, sprocket, sprocket wheel). (various references) | |
Greek | τρακτέρ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | גורר (trailer), טרקטור. (various references) | |
Hungarian | traktor. (various references) | |
Indonesian | traktor. (various references) | |
Italian | trattore. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 牽引車 , トキソプラズマ症 (18-wheeler, articulated lorry, galvanized sheet iron, latest fashion, pepper game, semi-trailer, Thomas Cup, toboggan, toffy, toggle, toggle switch, Tom, tomahawk, tomato, tomato ketchup, tomato puree, tommy gun, tomography, tom-tom, toner, tonic, tonic water, tony tie, top, top ball, top batter, top class, top condition, top down, top fashion, top gear, top group, top hat, top lady, top management, top news, top runner, top scene, top secret, top seller, top spin, top star, topaze, topcoat, top-domain, topic, topic news, topics, topless, top-level, top-note, topological, topology, topper, topping, toss, toss batting, tosser, totocalcio, toxoplasmosis, Toyota, tractor-trailer, tragedy, tragic, tragi-comedie, transistor glamour, trauma, triad, trial, trial and error, triangle, tri-athlete, triathlon, tribalism, tricycle, Trident, trijet, Tristar, truss, trust, try, zinc). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | トラクター , トラクタ , けんいんしゃ. (various references) | |
Korean | 트랙터. (various references) | |
Manx | tayrneyder (drawer, puller, worm). (various references) | |
Papago | judumi (bear). (various references) | |
Papiamen | traktor. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | actortray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | trator (carabine, dragon), tractor. (various references) | |
Romanian | tractor, avion cu motorul în faţã. (various references) | |
Russian | трактор (agrimotor). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | traktor. (various references) | |
Spanish | tractor (agrimotor, crawler). (various references) | |
Sranan | konkoni (rabbit). (various references) | |
Swazi | si-gulúmba. (various references) | |
Swedish | traktor (agrimotor). (various references) | |
Turkish | traktör (agrimotor, caterpillar, mule), çekici (alluring, appealing, attractive, bewitching, breakdown truck, breakdown van, captivating, catching, catchy, charismatic, charming, comely, desirable, endearing, engaging, engrossing, enthralling, fascinating, fetching, haul, haulier, inviting, juicy, magnetic, nubile, prepossessing, ravishing, sapid, seductive, sexy, spicy, stunning, taking, tempting, toothsome, tow truck, towing truck, tractive, winsome, witching, wrecker). (various references) | |
Turkmen | traktor (r). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | трактор (agrimotor). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người lái máy kéo (tractor-driver, tractor-operator). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tractor": tractors. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "tractor": abstractor, attractor, contractor, detractor, extractor, protractor, retractor, subcontractor. (additional references) | |
Words containing "tractor": abstractors, attractors, contractors, detractors, extractors, protractors, retractors, subcontractors. (additional references) | |
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"Tractor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ractor, Torcato, tractare, tractored, Tranto, trantor, trator, tricor, Trifthorn, trustor, ttractor. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tractor" (pronounced tra"kter) |
| 6 | t r a" k t er | detractor. |
| 5 | -r a" k t er | refractor. |
| 4 | -a" k t er | actor, compactor, factor, reactor. |
| 3 | -k t er | abductor, benefactor, character, chiropractor, collector, conductor, connecter, connector, constrictor, constructor, contractor, defector, detector, director, doctor, erector, Hector, inductor, injector, inspector, instructor, lector, malefactor, nectar, objector, predictor, Proctor, projector, prospector, protector, rector, sector, semiconductor, Specter, spectre, stricter, subcontractor, superconductor, vector, Victor. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-o-r-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: carrot, cottar, trocar. | |
-2 letters: actor, cotta, ottar, taroc, tarot, tract. | |
-3 letters: arco, carr, cart, coat, orca, orra, rato, roar, rota, taco, tact, taro, tart, tora, torc, torr, tort, trot. | |
-4 letters: act, arc, art, att, car, cat, cor, cot, oar, oat, oca, ora, orc, ort, rat, roc, rot, tao, tar, tat, tor, tot. | |
-5 letters: ar, at. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-o-r-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: protract, retroact, tractors. | |
+2 letters: attractor, carrottop, castrator, detractor, extractor, protracts, rectorate, retractor, retroacts. | |
+3 letters: abstractor, aristocrat, attractors, carrotiest, carrottops, castrators, castratory, contractor, detractors, extractors, meritocrat, protracted, protractor, rectorates, retraction, retractors, retroacted, rotorcraft, rusticator, tetrachord, trajectory, transactor, trichromat, trochanter. | |
+4 letters: abstractors, aristocrats, articulator, astrometric, carburettor, cirrostrati, contractors, contracture, contrariety, corporatist, cotransport, counterpart, directorate, gastrotrich, gerontocrat, meritocrats, orchestrate, protectoral, protractile, protracting, protraction, protractive, protractors, retractions, retroacting, retroaction, retroactive, rusticators, stratocracy, tetrachords, tetrasporic, transactors, triceratops, trichromats, trochanters. | |
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