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bulldozer

See also: Bulldozer

English edit

 
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A bulldozer.

Etymology edit

Originally bull-dozer (1875, Louisiana, US); bulldoze +‎ -er.

Pronunciation edit

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈbʊldoʊzɚ/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Noun edit

bulldozer (plural bulldozers)

  1. A tractor with an attached blade for pushing earth and building debris for coarse preliminary surface grading, demolishing building structures, etc.
    • 1943 September and October, “Railway Construction and Operation at War Department Depots”, in Railway Magazine, page 262:
      The bulldozer is a caterpillar tractor on the front of which is mounted a heavy steel blade which can be moved up and down by hydraulic gear. By sheer brute force it can push down trees and hedges, remove obstructions (including light brickwork) and level and consolidate newly-tipped banks.
    • 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:
      Typically for the 'get-on-with-it' era, the railway and military worked like demons to restore the vital rail link. The crater was rapidly filled in and the earth tamped solid, the wreckage was removed by breakdown trains, new rails and sleepers were rushed forward by willing hands, and US Army bulldozers piled in. By 2020 on the same day, both tracks were open for traffic again where there had been a gaping pit just hours before.
  2. One who bulldozes.
  3. (historical, chiefly in the plural) A member of a self-identified group of white US Southerners who colluded to influence outcomes of post-Reconstruction elections by intimidating, coercing and bullying black voters and legislators, including burning down houses and churches, flogging and murdering opponents.
  4. (by extension) A bully; an overbearing individual.

Synonyms edit

  • (member of intimidating white US Southerners): regulator
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  • blade (slang, 1940s and after)

Translations edit

Verb edit

bulldozer (third-person singular simple present bulldozers, present participle bulldozering, simple past and past participle bulldozered)

  1. To bulldoze (demolish with a bulldozer).
  2. To bulldoze (push through forcefully).
    They bulldozered through the crowd.

Further reading edit

Danish edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English bulldozer.

Noun edit

bulldozer c (definite plural bulldozeren, indefinite plural bulldozere, definite plural bulldozerne)

  1. a bulldozer (crawler tractor with an attached blade)

French edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English bulldozer.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /bul.do.zɛʁ/, /byl.do.zɛʁ/, /bul.do.zœʁ/
  • Audio(file)

Noun edit

bulldozer m (plural bulldozers)

  1. bulldozer
    Synonyms: bouldozeur, bull

Further reading edit

Spanish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Unadapted borrowing from English bulldozer.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /bulˈdoθeɾ/ [bul̪ˈd̪o.θeɾ]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /bulˈdoseɾ/ [bul̪ˈd̪o.seɾ]
  • (Spain) Rhymes: -oθeɾ
  • (Latin America) Rhymes: -oseɾ

Noun edit

bulldozer m (plural bulldozeres)

  1. bulldozer

Usage notes edit

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading edit

Swedish edit

 
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Noun edit

bulldozer c

  1. a bulldozer

Declension edit

Declension of bulldozer 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative bulldozer bulldozern bulldozrar bulldozrarna
Genitive bulldozers bulldozerns bulldozrars bulldozrarnas

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