Noun: tractor
| Singular | tractor |
| Plural | tractors |
Sample Sentences
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On the other hand the EE type 3's have offered in a 1750 hp package, probably the most successful loco BR bought. As any crew will tell you a tractor will pull anything anywhere, and yet at the same time they were nippy enough for use on the Anglian mainlines for 20 years. [1995 May 23, Andrew Cooke, “Re: British Rail: At Last The 1948 Show”, in misc.transport.rail.europe (Usenet):]
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With a recent email from Mike Tetlow, I found out that there were two other 37s [37252 and 37031] present that day, also shuttling between Cambridge and Kings Lynn. As you correctly observe, the pic of little me shows that I am in a Dutch liveried tractor. [2000 April 25, Grandpops, “Calling Norfolk tractor bashers with a good brain for numbers! Possible conclusion?”, in uk.railway (Usenet):]
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EWS are also denying any rumours of tractors going to Spain, then again they denyed the rumours of tractors going to France until the contract was signed! [2000 May 17, Matt, “Re: "Unfixing" Class 37s and Doncaster control (rant!!)”, in uk.railway (Usenet):]
Nouns inflected like tractor
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
Formed from Latin tractus, perfect passive participle of trahere (“to pull”), + agent noun suffix -or. See: Latin Nouns '
tractus'.
Verbs referencing "tractor"
Asturian Nouns
tractor, Dutch Nouns
tractor, Spanish Nouns
tractor, Danish Nouns
traktor, Hungarian Nouns
traktor, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
traktor, Polish Nouns
traktor, Bulgarian Nouns
трактор, Russian Nouns
трактор, German Nouns
Traktor, Portuguese Nouns
trator, Finnish Nouns
traktori.