What's the difference between plow and tractor?

Plow


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Plough
  • (v. t.) Alt. of Plough
  • (v. i.) Alt. of Plough

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The reported rates of protein degradation in a recent paper on the effect of surgical trauma on muscle protein turnover [Hoover-Plow & Clifford (1978) Biochem.
  • (2) The model considers seasonal changes in the biomass of vegetation and animal diets, as well as specific plowing and crop-harvest dates; thus the integrated radionuclide intakes by humans are dependent on the seasonal timing of deposition.
  • (3) 49ers 38 - Packers 24, 14:57 4th quarter Gore plows though, and now Green Bay are in some serious trouble.
  • (4) LG Winter Gardens, Morecambe ( liveatlica.org ), 23-27 September Speed-The-Plow Lindsay Lohan , making her West End debut, follows in the footsteps of Madonna in David Mamet’s caustic Hollywood satire.
  • (5) He is already an artistic associate of the Old Vic and directed Spacey and Jeff Goldblum there in Speed-the-Plow ; he also directed a much-praised revival of Alan Ayckbourn's trilogy The Norman Conquests .
  • (6) For 15 years (1955 to 1970), I was plowing "new ground" pretty much by myself.
  • (7) And I would go out and there would be all these cameras there and that’s when it became difficult.” Lohan, who recently starred in the West End play Speed-the-Plow , decided to turn her back on the west coast while holidaying alone in Greece over the summer.
  • (8) There were 1,700 snow plows and 450 salt spreaders working the streets in New York City, De Blasio said.
  • (9) In Nepal, the traditional way to process rice is to use the same cows that plow the field – they thresh rice by walking over the stalks.
  • (10) Meanwhile, King plowed his own ground preaching love and brotherhood.
  • (11) All plow down dates are chosen before the majority of larvae enter diapause so as to eliminate as many overwintering survivors as possible.
  • (12) In association with blood coagulation, neutrophils undergo a secretory response (Plow, J Clin Invest 69: 564, 1982) and it has been suggested that plasma kallikrein is responsible for inducing this reaction (Wachtfogel et al., J Clin Invest 72: 1672, 1983).
  • (13) The PMI-1 antibody inhibits platelet adhesion and spreading on certain substrata (Shadle, P. J., Ginsberg, M. H., Plow, E. F., and Barondes, S. H. (1984) J.
  • (14) Welfare officer Hayley Plows said: “Colonies of ferals and strays have been at a rough guess 85% black or black and white, I unfortunately do not think this is by pure coincidence.
  • (15) Governor Christie (@GovChristie) There are approximately 3,300 plows and spreaders out on New Jersey highways, including the Turnpike, GSP and ACE.
  • (16) The characteristic eggs of Orientobilharzia turkestanicum were found in the feces of a plowing bull.
  • (17) Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.” From the prosecutor and the grand juries in Ferguson and Staten Island to the halls of Congress – where reform ideas like the End Racial Profiling Act or the Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act have hit a dead end – and a thousand places in between, our government institutions have been largely unresponsive to demands for real structural reform.
  • (18) Alleviation of arsenic phytotoxicity has been attempted by increasing the soil pH, by use of iron or aluminum sulfate, by desorbing arsenate with phosphate and subsequent leaching, and by cultural practices such as deep plowing.
  • (19) It destroyed 150 acres of land and plowed through hills next to subdivisions containing hundreds of homes.
  • (20) Nitrate-N accumulation in the 0 to 3 foot profile in late July was reduced by 75% (no tillage) to 38% (chisel plow) compared with the conventional moldboard tillage system in this 8-year-old study.

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.