TRACTORとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈtɹæktə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈtɹæktɚ/
• 韻: -æktə(ɹ)

名詞

tractor (plural tractors)

1. (agriculture) A vehicle used in farms e.g. for pulling farm equipment and preparing the fields.
2. (agriculture) A movable coop without a floor to allow for free ranging.
3. (US) A truck (or lorry) for pulling a semi-trailer or trailer.
4. Any piece of machinery that pulls something.
5. (aviation) An aeroplane where the propeller is located in front of the fuselage.
6. (UK, rail transport) A British Rail Class 37 locomotive.
   • 1995 May 23, Andrew Cooke, “Re: British Rail: At Last The 1948 Show”, in misc.transport.rail.europe‎ (Usenet):

     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.

   • 2000 April 25, Grandpops, “Calling Norfolk tractor bashers with a good brain for numbers! Possible conclusion?”, in uk.railway‎ (Usenet):

     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 May 17, Matt, “Re: "Unfixing" Class 37s and Doncaster control (rant!!)”, in uk.railway‎ (Usenet):

     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!

7. (archaic) A metal rod used in tractoration, or Perkinism.

関連する語

派生した語

参考

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

動詞

tractor (third-person singular simple present tractors, present participle tractoring, simple past and past participle tractored)

1. (transitive, agriculture) To prepare (land) with a tractor.
2. (intransitive) To drive a tractor.
3. (transitive, science fiction) To move with a tractor beam.
4. (transitive, medicine, archaic) To treat by means of tractoration, or Perkinism.

参照

• tractor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)