What's the difference between mower and tractor?

Mower


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, mows; a mowing machine; as, a lawn mower.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Photograph: Mike Williams When the mower went quiet, my neighbor Woods, still sitting in his truck, called me over.
  • (2) Outside, through the window, the sun is shining and a lawn mower slowly traces lines on the training pitch named after Tito Vilanova.
  • (3) We have shown a basic biophysical difference between clinically similar hand injuries and suggest that some rotary lawn mower injuries more closely resemble high-velocity missile injuries.
  • (4) Recent studies (Cynader and Mitchell, '80; Mower et al., '81) have shown that total dark rearing prolongs susceptibility to the physiological effects of monocular deprivation (MD) in visual cortex beyond the normal age limits.
  • (5) Lawn-mower injuries, a previously unreported mode of injury for this fracture, caused five of the eight Type-IV fractures and were associated with the worst prognosis by far.
  • (6) Serious injuries from riding power mowers were sustained by 18 children.
  • (7) Most of these injuries, especially those which occur to children who are passengers on self-propelled mowers, are preventable by observance of simple precautions.
  • (8) These accidents can be avoided if young children are prevented from playing near or using power lawn mowers.
  • (9) It's on the Duke of Gloucester's land, so he'll do all right which is why a lot of people are objecting," he explains cheerfully as he gets off his motor mower before it rains.
  • (10) 'One of the reasons is that there's been an industrial revolution inside and outside: mowers, Hoovers, heating are cheaper and better now.
  • (11) The first successful surgically treated case of penetrating heart injury, specifically the right ventricle, caused by a fragment of coat hanger wire thrown by a lawn mower, is reported.
  • (12) Lawn mowers cause severe injuries, particularly to the lower limbs in children.
  • (13) Kelkoo , which is excellent for flights and lawn mowers, includes the best offers it can find on eBay, too.
  • (14) A typical 26-inch rotary mower blade rotating at 3,000 revolutions per minute develops a kinetic energy of 2,100 ft lb.
  • (15) During the course of the coupled oxidation of tetrahydrobiopterin, a pterin 4a-carbinolamine intermediate can be detected by ultraviolet spectroscopy (Kaufman, S. (1976) in Iron and Copper Proteins (Yasunobu, K. T., Mower, H. F., and Hayaishi, O., eds) pp.
  • (16) This mechanism of injury is possible on account of the relatively large dimensions of the riding-on rotory motor mower.
  • (17) The study of 52 inpatient cases treated over 12 years shows that ride-on lawn mowers cause the most severe trauma, resulting in longer hospitalization.
  • (18) The authors suggest that a "dead man's grib" which acts via weight bearing on the driver's seat of the machine should be made legally compulsory in Denmark when the new safety measures for rotory motor mowers are drawn up.
  • (19) Better education of the dangers of the misuse of these mowers may reduce the incidence of significant forefoot injuries.
  • (20) "As soon as this drought hit, it has taken a drastic fall from lawn mowers all the way through the ag equipment," he said.

Tractor


Definition:

  • (n.) That which draws, or is used for drawing.
  • (n.) Two small, pointed rods of metal, formerly used in the treatment called Perkinism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Even the landscape is secretive: vast tracts of crown land and hidden valleys with nothing but a dead end road and lonely farmhouse, with a tractor and trailer pulled across the farmyard for protection.
  • (2) Potential dermal exposure from tractor-powered sprayers fitted with conventional hydraulic nozzles was lower than from knapsack sprayers, with exposure from a tractor-powered sprayer fitted with controlled-droplet application equipment intermediate in this regard.
  • (3) Optical tweezers are the 'tractor beams' of today's technology.
  • (4) Sales of tractors and other farm machinery are down by 70%, said Dave Dorsett of Reynolds farm equipment in Martinville.
  • (5) Potential dermal exposure was higher during mixing and loading all tractor-powered sprayers than during spraying.
  • (6) It is recommended that the government require all tractors sold to be equipped with ROPS as is currently the case in England and Sweden.
  • (7) On the second anniversary of their optimistic opening coalition press conference in the rose garden at Downing Street, Cameron and Clegg chose the stark symbolism of a tractor factory floor in Basildon to rededicate the coalition to its central painstaking work of rebalancing the economy and tackling the deficit.
  • (8) The night before the hearing, Patten sat down in front of the box to watch Mud Sweat and Tractors: the Story of Agriculture on BBC4.
  • (9) This month the concessions are being worked at a breakneck pace, with giant tractors and heavy machinery clearing trees, draining swamps and ploughing the land in time to catch the next growing season.
  • (10) 2) Many items on the checklist received a poor evaluations, indicating that there are many ergonomic problems with freight-container tractors.
  • (11) The latter are grown in fields on which oil-based fertilisers have been sprayed and which are ploughed by tractors that burn diesel.
  • (12) Eight people died in a traffic accident involving a tractor-trailer and ten autos.
  • (13) Enjoy riding through the natural beauty of pine forests and open heathland, before taking the Sand Worm (a tractor-trailer ride) across vast sand dunes to the colliding waves of the North and Baltic seas.
  • (14) Save a few tractors for dragging boats up the beach, there are no motor vehicles on Culatra.
  • (15) Tractors were involved in eight of these deaths, falls in four, power take-offs in three, and farm machinery in one.
  • (16) Tractors accounted for one half of these machinery-related deaths, followed by farm wagons, combines, and forklifts.
  • (17) These findings were considered to originate from the fact that the freight-container tractors had many ergonomic problems and the daily driving hours of many drivers were estimated to exceed the allowable vibration exposure time of the ISO.
  • (18) It is the equivalent of allowing a fleet of tractors to drag 30 tonnes of gear over a 150-metre wide swath of land for most days of the year.
  • (19) 'They don't use tractors, they use cow muck as fertiliser; and they have low-tech irrigation systems in Kenya.
  • (20) The hands were the most highly exposed part of the body during mixing and loading operations for all sprayers, and during spraying with tractor-powered sprayers.