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# tractor

«tractor» in Mova's school dictionary: **a strong farm vehicle with big back wheels, used to pull…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a tractor, tractors)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A tractor is a strong farm vehicle with big back wheels, used to pull ploughs, trailers and other machines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tractor/#m1)

2) A tractor can also be a large truck cab that pulls a trailer (a «tractor-trailer»). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tractor/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and lessons about farms, the farmer drives a tractor to plough fields, plant seeds and carry hay. In safety lessons, children learn to keep away from tractors and farm machines and never ride on them without permission. Phrases: «drive a tractor», «a tractor and trailer», «tractor ride».

### examples

- The farmer drove the red tractor across the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tractor/#x1)
- A tractor pulled the plough through the soil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tractor/#x2)
- We had a tractor ride at the farm show. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tractor/#x3)
- Tractors have huge back wheels for muddy ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tractor/#x4)
- Never play near a working tractor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tractor/#x5)
- The tractor carried bales of hay to the barn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tractor/#x6)
- My little brother loves toy tractors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tractor/#x7)

### note

Countable noun, plural tractors. Ends in -or, not -er. In the US a «tractor-trailer» is a big lorry (articulated truck). Tractors are slow on roads, so drivers must pass them carefully.

### In the corpora

- [Gulls follow a tractor ploughing a field, because ploughing turns up worms and grubs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tractor» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tractor/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.