Thesaurus results for TRACTOR

tractor

noun

Definition of tractor

as in aircraft

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Recent Examples of tractor This isn’t the first time a tractor-trailer incident has spilled food on the road this year. — Chiara Kim, PEOPLE, 20 Aug. 2026 Orientating oneself meant knowledge of the road names and the ability to distinguish between a road where there were people living and a tractor trail. — Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2026 The driver and a passenger in the tractor-trailer were uninjured, authorities said. — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2026 So why does new marketing for the PepsiCo product tout partnerships with farmers and flash imagery of corn seedlings and a tractor? — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 18 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for tractor

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Noun

The French Navy’s Falcon 50, along with two British lifeboats and two British aircraft, has been deployed in the search.

— ABC News, ABC News, 30 Aug. 2026
The aircraft will maximize the defensive potential of Qatar's F-15QAs, Rafales, and Typhoons, allowing for extended surveillance and interception missions, reinforcing a defensive posture rather than offensive strikes.

— Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of aircraft

Noun

Soar over the landscape by helicopter, touching down in some of the country’s most secluded locations, with not another soul in sight.

— Gwen Nicol, Travel + Leisure, 29 Aug. 2026
Nepal’s disaster-management authority said 3,253 people had been airlifted by helicopter from the disaster area.

— Niranjan Shrestha, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of helicopter

Noun

The ambassador, a 69-year-old Texan billionaire, insisted on installing it, to have a place for the ship owner’s family to hang out, maybe flip an omelet for themselves.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026
Since then, Iran has resumed attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz and the US has reinstated its naval blockade of Iranian ports.

— Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of ship

Noun

DayGlo pigments were used extensively during World War II to make fluorescent fabric panels for US ground troops, while DayGlo’s black light paints were used on Navy aircraft carriers to enable planes to land at night.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 25 Aug. 2026
Alexandria Sheriff's Office via AP Flight 103 was 31,000 feet over Lockerbie when a bomb in the plane's forward cargo area exploded 38 minutes after takeoff from London Heathrow Airport.

— CBS News, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of plane

Noun

Brown says the company plans a blimp that can stay aloft for 24 hours or more within a year, which raises the question of what an advertising airship does at night.

— Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Emphasizing that any drone can be a threat in a restricted area, the FBI referred to an incident last year during the LA fires when a man flew his drone into a Super Scooper water dropping airship, grounding it for five days.

— Tom Wait, CBS News, 30 July 2026

Definition of airship

Noun

Their approach relies on an existing airframe, potentially giving the Marine Corps a faster route toward an operational collaborative combat aircraft.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2026
Now, Archer, working in close partnership with Anduril, has introduced the Halo, a commercial variant sharing the same core airframe and systems, sans the weaponry.

— David Szondy August 04, New Atlas, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of airframe

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With tanker movement through the Strait of Hormuz slowed to a crawl, the price of Brent crude climbed from a prewar close of about $72 a barrel to as high as nearly $120.

— ABC News, ABC News, 30 Aug. 2026
Another tanker was struck by an unknown projectile while transiting inbound in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, using the southern lane along the Omani coast, according to the UK Maritime Trade Operations.

— Anniek Bao,Garrett Downs, CNBC, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of tanker

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