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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

トラクター

Pronunciation / Transliteration: torakutā

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Tractor/ˈtræk.tər/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"農家の人格がトラクターで畑を耕す。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A powerful motor vehicle with large rear wheels, used chiefly for pulling farm machinery and implements.

    "The farmer drove the tractor across the field to prepare the soil for planting."
  2. 2

    The front section of a heavy goods vehicle, designed to pull a semi-trailer (also called a semi-tractor or truck tractor).

    "The tractor unhooked from its trailer at the shipping yard."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Modern Latin 'tractor' meaning 'one who pulls or draws', from the Latin verb 'trahere' (to pull). The term was first applied to powerful agricultural motor vehicles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to replace draft animals for heavy pulling tasks.

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