switcher vs tractor

switcher

noun
  • A railway locomotive used for shunting; a shunter. 

  • A switchmode power supply. 

  • Synonym of vision mixer (“device for selecting between video sources”) 

  • One who or that which operates a switch. 

  • One who or that which switches, or changes to something else. 

tractor

noun
  • A British Rail Class 37 locomotive. 

  • A vehicle used in farms e.g. for pulling farm equipment and preparing the fields. 

  • A truck (or lorry) for pulling a semi-trailer or trailer. 

  • An aeroplane where the propeller is located in front of the fuselage. 

  • A movable coop without a floor to allow for free ranging. 

  • Any piece of machinery that pulls something. 

verb
  • To move with a tractor beam. 

  • To prepare (land) with a tractor. 

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