Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Serving to pull or draw; exerting traction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tractional; drawing; needed or used in drawing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Serving to draw; pulling; attracting.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to
traction .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective exerting traction and serving to pull
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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They also discussed the kind of tractive power to be employed: Mr. Pease stating that the company had based their whole calculations on the employment of
Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Samuel Smiles 1858
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The third malfunction came the following day, when hundreds of passengers on a train heading for Beijing were asked to change train in the middle of their journey due a problem with tractive transformers on the train.
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Mini Cooper "Many will love the ease of four doors, the roominess of the rear cabin and the tractive security of AWD," says Mr. Neil.
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The third malfunction came the following day, when hundreds of passengers on a train heading for Beijing were asked to change train in the middle of their journey due a problem with tractive transformers on the train.
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Her only flaw was that her face had not yet developed the network of fine wrinkles Trapspringer found so at - tractive in a woman, but she was still young so there was hope.
Stalling 2010
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He had to admit he found her attractive, very at\expndtw2 tractive.
Poem About Never Growing Up Ryan McDermott 2010
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Next we decided to evaluate their tractive grip on hard packed snow and ice using our GPS-instrumented car.
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Next we decided to evaluate their tractive grip on hard packed snow and ice using our GPS-instrumented car.
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For example, the best of the reciprocating steam locomotives never delivered in the form of tractive effort at the draw-bar as much as 10 percent of the heat energy that was contained in the coal and placed in the firebox.
Energy and Society~ Chapter 5~ Steam~ Key to the Industrial Revolution 2009
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They were in excellent condition, and I felt that the Expedition had the right tractive – power.
South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917 2006
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