tractor

noun

Definition of tractornext
as in aircraft

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Recent Examples of tractor Or what is the effect on the farmers when the arrival of a single tractor costing 3000 yuan — a multiple of their collective annual income — promises to obliterate their very understanding of living with the land? — Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 17 Feb. 2025 John Deere showed off new autonomous tractor technology in vehicles that towered over attendees. — Kate Conger, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2025 Family Farms is Broward County’s lone strawberry u-pick, home to 10 acres of strawberry plants, along with cows, chickens, bunnies and tractor hayrides that rumble to life on the weekends. — Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2025 And those who already purchased the tractors that dominate this category — the kinds that pull trailers across the nation’s highways, moving furniture, food and so much else — might be the wise ones. — Ken Roberts, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for tractor
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tractor
  1. aircraft
  2. helicopter
  3. airplane
  4. ship
  5. plane
  6. airship
  7. airframe
  8. tanker
Noun
  • Instead, Ukraine’s military was able to reposition matériel to avoid Russian strikes and shoot down a troop transport aircraft.
    — The Editors, National Review, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Russia has regularly sent military aircraft near Alaska.
    — Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
Definition of aircraft
Noun
  • The process is expected to take up to an hour, according to SpaceX. Medical checks will be performed before the astronauts board a helicopter to the airport.
    — NBC News, NBC News, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Meanwhile, the life flight helicopter was blown off the roof and surrounding debris entered the radiators hospital’s generators, leaving the building without electricity, according to a presentation from Johnson County Emergency Management.
    — Alex Gurley, People.com, 19 Mar. 2025
Definition of helicopter
Noun
  • None of his employees knows how to manage an airplane, Wang replied.
    — Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Some of those decisions involve grounding airplanes and bringing cargo vessels into safe harbor well ahead of dangerous storms.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 13 Mar. 2025
Definition of airplane
Noun
  • The Reds seemed to right the ship with four wins and a draw in their next five matches, but even those were questionable.
    — Brett Koremenos, The Athletic, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The assessments look into vessel traffic, transit speeds, loading characteristics and more, especially as ships have gotten larger over the decades.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 21 Mar. 2025
Definition of ship
Noun
  • Add to that the expense of fully implementing Trump's plans —which will include hiring hundreds of people, more than doubling ICE detention space to 100,000 beds and adding many more planes for deportation flights.
    — Axios, Axios, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The plane was built in 2012 with an engine from CFM International.
    — TIME, TIME, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of plane
Noun
  • This month, it was announced as the motor supplier of the Flying Whales airship project.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Alternative options have always existed—imperial Germany used Zeppelin airships in World War I to subdue the city of London, and Nazi Germany developed V-1 cruise missiles and V-2 ballistic missiles in World War II.
    — Raphael S. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 18 Feb. 2025
Definition of airship
Noun
  • Despite the innovations in technology and design, hypersonic applications for commercial aircraft are in their infancy, with both engines and airframes remaining years away from implementation in that category.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 22 Mar. 2025
  • The two argued that advances in composite airframe construction would allow lighter supersonic aircraft that would generate less of a boom than the pioneering Concorde airliner, recommending that the FAA rewrite those rules to restrict sound, not speed.
    — Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 10 Feb. 2025
Definition of airframe
Noun
  • The Russian captain of a cargo ship that crashed into a U.S. fuel tanker in the North Sea, appeared in a British court where he was charged with manslaughter and gross negligence.
    — Mark Davis, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Russian remanded in fatal sea collision LONDON -- The Russian captain of a cargo ship that collided with a U.S. tanker last week appeared in a U.K. court Saturday where he was remanded in custody over the death of a crew member, who is missing and presumed dead.
    — Compiled by Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of tanker

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