bulldozer
See also: Bulldozer
English
A bulldozer.
Etymology
Originally bull-dozer (1875, Louisiana, US); bulldoze + -er.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈbʊldoʊzɚ/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun
bulldozer (plural bulldozers)
- A tractor with an attached blade for pushing earth and building debris for coarse preliminary surface grading, demolishing building structures, etc.
- 1943 September and October, “Railway Construction and Operation at War Department Depots”, in Railway Magazine, page 262:
- The bulldozer is a caterpillar tractor on the front of which is mounted a heavy steel blade which can be moved up and down by hydraulic gear. By sheer brute force it can push down trees and hedges, remove obstructions (including light brickwork) and level and consolidate newly-tipped banks.
- 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:
- Typically for the 'get-on-with-it' era, the railway and military worked like demons to restore the vital rail link. The crater was rapidly filled in and the earth tamped solid, the wreckage was removed by breakdown trains, new rails and sleepers were rushed forward by willing hands, and US Army bulldozers piled in. By 2020 on the same day, both tracks were open for traffic again where there had been a gaping pit just hours before.
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- One who bulldozes.
- (historical, chiefly in the plural) A member of a self-identified group of white US Southerners who colluded to influence outcomes of post-Reconstruction elections by intimidating, coercing and bullying black voters and legislators, including burning down houses and churches, flogging and murdering opponents.
- (by extension) A bully; an overbearing individual.
Synonyms
- (member of intimidating white US Southerners): regulator
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- blade (slang, 1940s and after)
Translations
tractor
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Verb
bulldozer (third-person singular simple present bulldozers, present participle bulldozering, simple past and past participle bulldozered)
- To bulldoze (push through forcefully).
- They bulldozered through the crowd.
Further reading
bulldozer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English bulldozer.
Noun
bulldozer c (definite plural bulldozeren, indefinite plural bulldozere, definite plural bulldozerne)
- a bulldozer (crawler tractor with an attached blade)
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English bulldozer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bul.do.zɛʁ/, /byl.do.zɛʁ/, /bul.do.zœʁ/
Audio (file)
Noun
bulldozer m (plural bulldozers)
- bulldozer
- Synonyms: bouldozeur, bull
Further reading
- “bulldozer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
Alternative forms
- buldócer
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English bulldozer
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /bulˈdoθeɾ/ [bul̪ˈd̪o.θeɾ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /bulˈdoseɾ/ [bul̪ˈd̪o.seɾ]
- (Spain) Rhymes: -oθeɾ
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -oseɾ
Noun
bulldozer m (plural bulldozeres)
- bulldozer
Further reading
- “bulldozer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Noun
bulldozer c
- a bulldozer
Declension
| Declension of bulldozer | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | bulldozer | bulldozern | bulldozrar | bulldozrarna |
| Genitive | bulldozers | bulldozerns | bulldozrars | bulldozrarnas |
References
- bulldozer in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- bulldozer in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)