A tractor is a farm vehicle that is used to pull farm machinery and to provide the energy needed for the machinery to work.
tractor in British English
(ˈtræktə)
noun
1.
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
2.
a short motor vehicle with a powerful engine and a driver's cab, used to pull a trailer, as in an articulated lorry
3.
an aircraft with its propeller or propellers mounted in front of the engine
Word origin
C18: from Late Latin: one who pulls, from trahere to drag
tractor in American English
(ˈtræktər)
US
noun
1.
a powerful vehicle with a gasoline or diesel engine and large rear wheels or endless belt treads, used for pulling farm machinery, hauling loads, etc.
2.
a large, powerful truck with a driver's cab and a fifth wheel, designed to pull a trailer
3.
an airplane with its propeller or propellers mounted in front of the engine
Word origin
ModL < L tractus: see traction
tractor in Automotive Engineering1
(træktər) or tractor unit
Word forms: (regular plural) tractors
noun
(Automotive engineering: Vehicle types)
A tractor is a short vehicle with a powerful engine and a driver's cab. It is used to pulla trailer, such as in a tractor-trailer.
The truck was an 18-wheeler with a white tractor.
The warehouse attached the semitrailer to the fifth wheel of the tractor unit.
The new tractor unit has a more powerful diesel engine as well as sleeping accommodation for thedriver above the cab for use on long-distance deliveries.
tractor in Automotive Engineering2
(træktər)
Word forms: (regular plural) tractors
noun
(Automotive engineering: Vehicle types)
A tractor is a farm vehicle that is used to pull farm machinery.
He has a license to drive an agricultural tractor.
Companies that manufacture higher horsepower tractors (greater than 40-hp) have been constrained to import the engines and components becauseno domestic manufacturer made them.
We got stuck behind a slow-moving tractor, drawing a trailer of hay.
Examples of 'tractor' in a sentence
tractor
His tractor was parked on the lane with its wheels turned into the entrance, his daughter at the wheel.
Dexter Petley WHITE LIES (2003)
A rusting tractor was visible through the half-open barn door.
LeCompte, Jane MOON PASSAGE (2003)
In other languages
tractor
British English: tractor /ˈtræktə/ NOUN
A tractor is a farm vehicle that is used for pulling farm machinery.
American English: tractor
Arabic: جَرَّار
Brazilian Portuguese: trator
Chinese: 拖拉机
Croatian: traktor
Czech: traktor
Danish: traktor
Dutch: tractor
European Spanish: tractor
Finnish: traktori
French: tracteur
German: Traktor
Greek: τρακτέρ
Italian: trattore
Japanese: トラクター
Korean: 트랙터
Norwegian: traktor
Polish: traktor
European Portuguese: trator
Romanian: tractor
Russian: трактор
Latin American Spanish: tractor
Swedish: traktor
Thai: รถแทรกเตอร์
Turkish: traktör
Ukrainian: трактор
Vietnamese: máy kéo
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crawler tractor
a tractor with a continuous roller belt over cogged wheels on each side, for moving over rough or muddy ground
Remuera tractor
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Toorak tractor
a luxury four-wheel drive or sport utility vehicle
tractor driver
a person who drives a motor vehicle used to pull heavy loads , esp farm machinery such as a plough or harvester
tractor-trailer
a truck for pulling heavy loads , consisting of a tractor attached to a trailer