Definitions for towing
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1. Towing

   Towing is coupling two or more objects together so that they may be pulled by a designated power source or sources. The towing source may be a motorized land vehicle, vessel, animal, or human, and the load being anything that can be pulled. These may be joined by a chain, rope, bar, hitch, three-point, fifth wheel, coupling, drawbar, integrated platform, or other means of keeping the objects together while in motion. Towing may be as simple as a tractor pulling a tree stump. The most familiar form is the transport of disabled or otherwise indisposed vehicles by a tow truck or "wrecker". Other familiar forms are the tractor-trailer combination, and cargo or leisure vehicles coupled via ball or pintle and gudgeon trailer hitches to smaller trucks and cars. In the opposite extreme are extremely heavy duty tank recovery vehicles, and enormous ballast tractors involved in heavy hauling towing loads stretching into the millions of pounds. Necessarily, government and towing sector standards have been developed for carriers, lighting, and coupling to ensure safety and interoperability of towing equipment. Historically, barges were hauled along rivers or canals using tow ropes drawn by men or draught animals walking along towpaths on the banks. Later came chain boats. Today, tug boats are used to maneuver larger vessels and barges. Over thousands of years the maritime field has refined towing to a science. Aircraft can tow other aircraft as well. Troop and cargo-carrying gliders were towed behind powered aircraft, which remains a popular means of getting modern leisure gliders aloft.

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1. Towing

   Towing is the process of pulling or drawing behind a chain, line, bar or some other form of couplings. Towing is most visibly performed by vehicles, but anything from waterborne vessels to tractors to people can tow cargo. Troop carrying and cargo carrying gliders were towed behind powered aircraft during WWII and remains a popular means for modern leisure gliders to take off. In the maritime industry in particular, towing is a refined science.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of towing in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of towing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of towing in a Sentence

1. Alexander Rossi:

   One of the ways we found most efficient to saving fuel was being in the draft of others, so Townsend( Bell) helped me out quite a bit by towing me around for probably about 12 laps and Ryan( Hunter-Reay, the 2014 Indy 500 winner) helped me at the end by towing me for four laps.

2. Jim Willett:

   The numbers here have grown again and Royal Canadian Mounted Police are going truck to truck giving people an ultimatum. They have a facility to start towing vehicles and that's what I expect to start seeing next.

3. Ford CEO Jim Farley:

   We have a lot of rural customers at Ford that a lot of other brands don't have. We have Super Duty customers who do heavy-duty towing: horse trailers, people in the energy business who are towing big-time loads over very long distances. It's hard for me to imagine that all those customers will go electric in the next 10 years, they're actually as interested in the technology as anyone, it's just their use case is different than how we've designed the vehicles so far. It does feel, at least for Ford, the transition's happening faster than we thought. But again, it's the first inning of a maybe nine-inning game.

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