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See also: Bulldozer
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Originally bull-dozer (1875, Louisiana, US); bulldoze + -er.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
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.
- 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[edit]
- (member of intimidating white US Southerners): regulator
- blade (slang, 1940s and after)
Translations[edit]
tractor
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Verb[edit]
bulldozer (third-person singular simple present bulldozers, present participle bulldozering, simple past and past participle bulldozered)
- To bulldoze (demolish with a bulldozer).
- To bulldoze (push through forcefully).
- They bulldozered through the crowd.
Further reading[edit]
Danish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English bulldozer.
Noun[edit]
bulldozer c (definite plural bulldozeren, indefinite plural bulldozere, definite plural bulldozerne)
- a bulldozer (crawler tractor with an attached blade)
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English bulldozer.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bulldozer m (plural bulldozers)
- bulldozer
- Synonyms: bouldozeur, bull
Further reading[edit]
- “bulldozer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from English bulldozer.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): (Spain) /bulˈdoθeɾ/ [bul̪ˈd̪o.θeɾ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /bulˈdoseɾ/ [bul̪ˈd̪o.seɾ]
- (Spain) Rhymes: -oθeɾ
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -oseɾ
Noun[edit]
bulldozer m (plural bulldozeres)
Usage notes[edit]
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading[edit]
- “bulldozer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish[edit]
Noun[edit]
bulldozer c
Declension[edit]
| Declension of bulldozer | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | bulldozer | bulldozern | bulldozrar | bulldozrarna |
| Genitive | bulldozers | bulldozerns | bulldozrars | bulldozrarnas |
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