tractor

English

Wikipedia

A tractor (farm vehicle).

A modern 4WD farm tractor

Etymology

From Latin tractus, perfect passive participle of trahere (“to pull”), + agent noun suffix -or.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈtræktə/
• (US) IPA: /ˈtræktəɹ/

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Noun

tractor (plural tractors)

1. (agriculture) A vehicle used in farms e.g. for pulling farm equipment and preparing the fields.
2. (US) A truck (or lorry) for pulling a semi-trailer or trailer.
3. Any piece of machinery, any thing that pulls something.
4. (aviation) (aircraft configuration) An airplane where the propeller is located in front of the fuselage
5. (archaic) A metal rod used in tractoration, or Perkinism.

Related terms

• traction
• tractor beam
• tractor out
• tractor pull
• tractor trailer

See also

• (aviation): pusher
• (agriculture): traction engine

Translations

farm vehicle

• Arabic: جرار (ar) (jaraar) m, تراكتور (ar) (taraaktuur) m
• Armenian: տրակտոր (hy) (traktor)
• Asturian: tractor (ast) m
• Catalan: tractor (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 拖拉機 (cmn), 拖拉机 (cmn) (tuōlājī), 鐵牛 (cmn), 铁牛 (cmn) (tiěniú)

• Czech: traktor (cs) m
• Danish: traktor (da)
• Dutch: tractor (nl) m, trekker (nl) m
• Esperanto: traktoro (eo)
• Faroese: traktorur (fo) m
• Finnish: traktori (fi)
• French: tracteur (fr) m
• Galician: tractor (gl) m
• German: Traktor (de) m, (North German) Trecker (de) m, Schlepper (de) m
• Greek: ελκυστήρας (el) (elkystíras) m, (colloquial) τρακτέρ (el) (traktér) n
• Hungarian: traktor (hu)
• Ido: traktoro (io)
• Interlingua: tractor (ia)
• Italian: trattore (it) m

• Japanese: トラクター (ja) (torakutā)
• Jèrriais: tracteu m
• Korean: 트랙타 (ko) (teuraekteo)
• Latvian: traktors (lv)
• Malay: traktor (ms)
• Maltese: mutur tal-ħart, trekter (mt)
• Norwegian: traktor (no) m
• Occitan: tractor (oc) m
• Polish: traktor (pl) m
• Portuguese: trator (pt) m
• Russian: трактор (ru) (tráktor) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: трактор (sh) m

  Roman: traktor (sh) m

• Slovak: traktor (sk) m
• Spanish: tractor (es) m
• Swedish: traktor (sv)
• Thai: รถแทรกเตอร์ (th) (rót-trâek-dtêr)
• Vietnamese: máy kéo (vi)
• Volapük: träktor (vo)

truck (or lorry) for pulling a trailer

• Finnish: vetoauto (fi)
• Greek: γερανός (el) (geranós) m

• Russian: трактор-тягач (ru) (tráktor-tjagáč) m, тягач (ru) (tjagáč) m

any piece of machinery that pulls something

• Finnish: vetolaite (fi), veturi (fi)

• Greek: γερανός (el) (geranós) m, ελκυστήρας (el) (elkystíras) m

aircraft configuration

• Japanese: 牽引式飛行機 (ja) (けんいんしきひこうき, ken'inshiki hikōki)

Adjective

tractor (not comparable)

1. Having to do with tractors.
   • 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly): 

     A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.

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Dutch

Etymology

From English tractor.

Noun

tractor m (plural tractoren or tractors, diminutive tractortje)

1. tractor (agricultural vehicle)

Synonyms

• trekker

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Latin

Verb

tractor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of tractō

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin tractus, perfect passive participle of trahere (“to pull”), + agent noun suffix -or.

Noun

tractor m (plural tractores)

1. tractor