Crossword clues for traction
traction
- Pamphlet - one about medical procedure
- Drawing in pamphlet about gaining independence
- Ultimately smitten with old Italian car, beginning to think about purchase ...
- Road-gripping ability
- What good tires provide
- Tension caused by pulling
- Pulling force
- Grip between something and the surface on which it moves
- Grip — rat in cot (anag)
- Force exerted by pulling
- (In orthopaedics) the pulling on a bone or limb to relieve pressure during healing
- The friction between a body and the surface on which it moves (as between an automobile tire and the road)
- (orthopedics) the act of pulling on a bone or limb (as in a fracture) to relieve pressure or align parts in a special way during healing
- The act of drawing
- Adhesive friction of tires on roads
- Grip - rat in cot
- Act of pulling
- Medical stretching
- Friction arising from offensive by Turkey
- Farm vehicle turned up, worked into drawing
- Purchase intact or otherwise
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Traction \Trac"tion\, n. [L. trahere, tractum, to draw: cf. F. traction.]
The act of drawing, or the state of being drawn; as, the traction of a muscle.
Specifically, the act of drawing a body along a plane by motive power, as the drawing of a carriage by men or horses, the towing of a boat by a tug.
Attraction; a drawing toward. [R.]
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The adhesive friction of a wheel on a rail, a rope on a pulley, or the like; as, the car is stuck in the snow because it can;t get any traction.
--Knight.Angle of traction (Mech.), the angle made with a given plane by the line of direction in which a tractive force acts.
Traction engine, a locomotive for drawing vehicles on highways or in the fields.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "a drawing or pulling" (originally the pulling of a dislocated limb to reposition it), from Medieval Latin tractionem (nominative tractio) "a drawing" (mid-13c.), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin trahere "to pull, draw" (see tract (n.1)). Sense of "rolling friction of a vehicle" first appears 1825. In modern medical care, "a sustained pull to a part of the body to hold fractured bones in position," 1885.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of pulling something along a surface using motive power. 2 the condition of being so pulled. 3 grip. 4 The pulling power of an engine or animal. 5 The adhesive friction of a wheel etc on a surface. 6 (context medicine English) A mechanically applied sustained pull, especially to a limb. 7 (lb en transport) Collectively, the locomotives of a railroad, especially electric locomotives. 8 (lb en usually after forms of ''get'' or ''have'') progress in or momentum toward achieving a goal. 9 # (context business English) The extent of adoption of a new product or service, typically measured in number of customers or level of revenue achieved. 10 # (context politics English) Popular support. vb. (cx medicine transitive English) To apply a sustained pull to (a limb, etc.).
WordNet
n. the friction between a body and the surface on which it moves (as between an automobile tire and the road) [syn: grip, adhesive friction]
(orthopedics) the act of pulling on a bone or limb (as in a fracture) to relieve pressure or align parts in a special way during healing; "his leg was in traction for several days"
Wikipedia
Traction may refer to:
In orthopedic medicine, traction refers to the set of mechanisms for straightening broken bones or relieving pressure on the spine and skeletal system. There are two types of traction: skin traction and skeletal traction.
Traction, or tractive force, is the force used to generate motion between a body and a tangential surface, through the use of dry friction, though the use of shear force of the surface is also commonly used.
Traction can also refer to the maximum tractive force between a body and a surface, as limited by available friction; when this is the case, traction is often expressed as the ratio of the maximum tractive force to the normal force and is termed the coefficient of traction (similar to coefficient of friction).
Traction is the first album by New Zealand rock band Supergroove. It was released in 1994 by RCA Records, debuting at #1 on the National Album Charts and quickly reaching platinum status. Before the band could record their second album, creative differences forced member Che Ness to leave to pursue a solo career. To date, the album has achieved the requirements for platinum status five times over.
Traction is an interactive advertising agency based in San Francisco. In 2014, they were named Independent Agency of the Year in the iMedia Agency Awards. Their clients include Alibaba.com, Adobe Systems, Bank of America, Cabot Creamery, California Bank & Trust, Camelbak, Intuit, Intel, Kelly-Moore Paints, Livescribe, Meebo, Robert Half International, Salesforce.com, SAP, and Shutterfly, Walmart, ZoneAlarm.
Traction is a branding agency located in Cincinnati, Ohio. They produced identity development work for a variety of local, national, and international brands.
Traction is a progressive non-profit organization promoting civic engagement, based in the city of Durham, North Carolina. Traction's goal is to inform, inspire and connect a growing social network of left-leaning 20- and 30-somethings. The organization focuses on raising awareness of progressive issues including civil rights, health care, the environment, electoral fairness, economic justice and education. These topics are integrated into activities such as movies, dodgeball, art exhibitions, sushi-making workshops, potluck dinners and parties to create issue-based events which inform and mobilize the community for social action.
Traction was founded in 2005 by Lanya Shapiro and became a project of the San Francisco-based Tides Center in early 2007. The group's funding sources include the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, Jonathan and Peter Lewis, and the Open Society Institute.
Traction is the geologic process whereby a current transports sand grains and larger clasts by rolling or sliding along the bottom. Thus, the grains and clasts interact with the substratum during transport. By contrast, saltation, a related sediment transport process, moves grains across the bottom by bouncing or hopping. The actual current carries the sediment load in traction and saltation flows, whereas downslope movement under the force of gravity carries the sediment in gravity flows. These processes contrast with suspension settling, in which there is no current. Traction is some large dtones or boulder in the river's load are rolled along by the river bed of the force of river
Usage examples of "traction".
Within hours of each other there had been an admission from a car crash to set up on traction after Orthopaedics had finished patching him up and drips and analgesia to regulate in the sterile side ward for two young burns victims from a house fire.
Benesch points out that in order to correct many malpresentations it is necessary to apply traction and repulsion at the same time, and to do that with one hand in a straining cow is impossible.
It was an imposing image to be left with, and put into the context of motorless transport and construction that was based on human brawn and animal traction, impressive.
If there is a grass surface at the edge of the road be prepared to quickly correct any oversteer that might follow and be ready to ease back on the throttle a little if your tires lose traction.
Cloak thaumaturge reached past his ear and touched the troll with a sp that caused all of its skeletal muscles to lock into maximum cc traction.
For you see, I am still strapped to this bed in a traction cast, the sky over Baguio is still a sexual blue, the grass sensual green, Abigail Light lovely, lovely, and Doctor Gallard concerned.
They were bulldoggers, the boots favored by rodeo topers because the heels angled forward to give better traction when taking down a roped calf.
It hurries you along through frothing sea and pungent powder smoke and the grim ordeal of Dartmoor Prison with no respite in its traction.
Brim nodded to Barbousse, the traction system roared, and the fieldpiece lumbered ahead.
An instant, after he cleared the hull, the traction engine roared and the fieldpiece lumbered off after the others toward the protection of the low hills that formed the lower boundary of the city.
The cliff had been cut down to form an evenly sloping stone ramp and then roughened by transverse grooves, a fingerbreadth apart, to provide traction for the feet of men and animals.
On their dark, mottled bodies were a series of small leglike appendages, which would serve to give them traction on the ground and a better grip on their victims.
Unlike northerners, who learn to drive on ice, Miamians have no genetic familiarity with surface traction.
But with a power plant no bigger than six cubic inches, that car, carrying enough weight to give it traction, outpulled an army tank!
In the dispensary, Ben Martin was stretched out on a hospital bunk with a traction brace around his neck and a copper-haired medical-surgical patrolwoman fussing over him.