Noun: traction
| Singular | traction |
| Plural | tractions |
Sample Sentences
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Horse traction was used for all but 23 years of the tramway's life. [1960 January 26, Iain D. O. Frew, “The Brora Colliery Tramway”, in Railway Magazine, page 57:]
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I could not get any traction in trying to push through the legislation.
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Despite this somewhat late start, the field of study has gained great traction globally, and since 2015 has even had its own journal: Linguistic Landscape: An International Journal. [2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 2:]
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‘Well,’ McCarthy answered, with a broad smile, when Dan stopped the puffing traction before his door[.] [1911, ‘Steel Rudd’, The Book of Dan, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, published 1970, page 1:]
Nouns inflected like traction
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Medieval Latin tractio, from Latin tractus, perfect passive participle of verb trahere (“pull”), + noun of action suffix -io (genitive -ionis). See: Latin Nouns '
tractus'.