tract
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English tract, tracte, traht (“a treatise, exposition, commentary”), from Old English traht, tract (“a treatise, exposition, commentary, text, passage”); and also from Middle English tract, tracte (“an expanse of space or time”); both from Latin tractus (“a haul, drawing, a drawing out”), the perfect passive participle of trahō. Doublet of trait.
Inflected forms:
form: tracts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An area or expanse.
pos: noun
examples: an unexplored tract of sea
the deep tract of hell
a very high mountain joined to the mainland by a narrow tract of earth
small tracks of ground
Another place where, from the aesthetic point of view, a long tunnel would have been a real blessing, is East London as viewed from the carriage window on the old Great Eastern line. Despite a vast change from crowded slums to tracts of wasteland, due to its grim wartime experience, this approach still provides a shabby and unworthy introduction to the great capital.
gloss: A series of connected body organs, such as the digestive tract.
pos: noun
gloss: A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses.
pos: noun
gloss: A brief treatise or discourse on a subject.
pos: noun
examples: The church clergy at that writ the best collection of tracts against popery that ever appeared.
gloss: A commentator's view or perspective on a subject.
pos: noun
gloss: Continued or protracted duration, length, extent
pos: noun
examples: improved by tract of time
Nay, in another case of litigation, the unjust Standard bearer, for his own profit, asserting that the cause belonged not to St. Edmund’s Court, but to his in Lailand Hundred, involved us in travellings and innumerable expenses, vexing the servants of St. Edmund for a long tract of time […]
gloss: Part of the proper of the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations, used instead of the alleluia during Lenten or pre-Lenten seasons, in a Requiem Mass, and on a few other penitential occasions.
pos: noun
gloss: Continuity or extension of anything.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: in tract of speech
gloss: Traits; features; lineaments.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: The discovery of a man's self by the tracts of his countenance is a great weakness.
gloss: The footprint of a wild animal.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: The Prophet Telemus […]mark'd the Tracts of every Bird that flew
gloss: Track; trace.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Efface all tract of its traduction.
But flies an eagle flight, bold, and forth on, / Leaving no tract behind.
gloss: Treatment; exposition.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: The tract of every thing Would, by a good discourser, lose some life Which action's self was tongue to.
Related words: abstract
attract
contract
detract
distract
extract
protract
retract
subtract
tractor
tractable
tractate
tractile
traction
tractive
trait
treat
Derived words: biliary tract
census tract
digestive tract
gastrointestinal tract
GI tract
iliotibial tract
lower respiratory tract
pyramidal tract
respiratory tract
spinoreticular tract
Tractarian
tract home
tract house
tract housing
Tractite
tractlet
tract mansion
tractography
tractotomy
tract society
Trans-Karakoram Tract
upper respiratory tract
urinary tract
urinary tract infection
vocal tract
von Monakow's tract
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