Word Finder - traction

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The act of pulling something along a surface using motive power.

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The condition of being so pulled.

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Grip.

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The pulling power of an engine or animal.

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The adhesive friction of a wheel etc on a surface.

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(usually after forms of gain, get or have) Progress in or momentum toward achieving a goal.

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A mechanically applied sustained pull, especially to a limb.

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Collectively, the locomotives of a railroad, especially electric locomotives.

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To apply a sustained pull to (a limb, etc.).

As she let up, they found traction and the car shot out of the driveway.

Traction engines are also largely used.

It is served by the Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia & Reading and the Lancaster, Oxford & Southern railways, and by tramways of the Conestoga Traction Company, which had in 1909 a mileage of 152 m.

Tramways with mechanical traction have developed rapidly.

In other words, the cleats help athletes to gain more traction.

How, then, do they exert this traction?

The snow had melted on the mountain trail, and the dry gray rocks provided sufficient traction for Ed's hooves as they climbed higher into the hills.

Both electric and horse traction are used; the latter, however, has been in great part displaced by the former.

In 1906 contracts were made to reconstruct some of these lines for electric traction.

Van Depoele and others between 1880 and 1884 were the pioneers of electric traction.

The post-war slump brought a last-ditch amalgamation of traction engine manufacturers including Burrell's.

This will prevent the excess traction on the first sutures of the distal anastomosis.

The existing motor bogie was retained to provide 500hp of traction to the unit.

You can lock the multi-plate clutch for traction on really slippery surfaces, too.

The decision is more difficult when the hip appears congruent even with the patient out of traction.

As a first traction kite we'd recommend either a 3 or 4m kite.

Here the traction engine puts on a spectacular display as it ascends the steep ramp off the site.

Tom is easily seduced by the easy life on board a traction city.

The latter includes traction substations and the 1500 V DC overhead contact line.

I get up, my feet lose traction in the muck.

Covering diesel traction in Scotland from the Borders through to Wick.

Severe injury may still be treated with a surgical collar, cervical traction, heat or ice.

This unique combination provides the SIDEWINDER with superior traction and breaking.

Cornering performance has also been uprated, as has rear wheel traction.

He cut the cord and we cuddled her, only later realizing that the midwife was applying cord traction.

Snowdon Mountain Railroad Trains Trains may be operated by either steam or diesel traction.

Future developments in fireless steam railroad traction would benefit from such efforts.

The fully automatic 4WD transmission regulates traction on the four wheels from 0 to 100% according to grip.

In the traction trebuchet a large troop of men pulled down on ropes to propel the missile.

It is this close automatic interdependence cf engir e and boiler which makes the locomotive so extraordinarily w ell suited for the purpose of locomotive traction.

Morin (see Notice sur divers appareils dynamometriques, Paris, 1841), in his classical experiments on traction, arranged his appar atus so that the change in form of the spring was continuously recorded on a sheet of paper drawn under a style.

The introduction in 1986 of the US built class 59 heralded a revolution in diesel traction for freight services in the UK.

Additional features include traction control for an extra £ 395 and a limited slip differential at a cost of £ 995.

Those symbols can give you traction when you 're thinking about broad swaths of experience.

The traction motor bolts which caused the Chancery Lane accident were a known problem.

It sounds like I should be able to handle the Blade 4.0 for my first traction kite for jumping.

Derek Rayner first drove a traction engine in 1963.

Your automobile battery is a typical example of a traction battery.

The traction control made the wheels stick to the dirty winter road.

It has highly fertile land, but was mostly unsuitable for cultivation without the plow and animal traction.

Even after a few rounds of iterative improvements and tweaks, you may fail to gain meaningful customer traction.

The ski's flex also influences its traction.

Gomez has appeared in a handful of films, gaining traction from cameo parts to lead roles.

It won't truly melt the ice, but it will give you and your dog some much needed traction.

Steer the car into the skid to help gain traction and control.

The example of the Stockton & Darlington line was followed by the Monklands railway in Scotland, opened in 1826, and several other small lines - including the Canterbury & Whitstable, worked partly by fixed engines and partly by locomotives - quickly adopted steam traction.

There are certain fundamental relations common to all tractive problems, and these are briefly considered in §§ i and 2, after which the article refers particularly to steam locomotives, although §§ 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, and 10 have a general application to all modes of traction.

In 1905 and following years motor omnibuses (worked mostly by internal combustion engines) began to a large extent to supplant horse traction.

The decade following the Spanish-American War (1898-1908), which may be regarded as a period of industrial and commercial reconstruction, was marked by a very rapid increase in the use of electricity for lighting, traction and other purposes.

It is served by the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis, the Fort Wayne, Cincinnati & Louisville railways, and by the Indianapolis & Cincinnati Traction line (electric).