Protract

[prə'trækt] or [pro'trækt]

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To draw out or lengthen in time or (rarely) in space; to continue; to prolong; as, to protract an argument; to protract a war.

(v. t.) To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer; as, to protract a decision or duty.

(v. t.) To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.

(v. t.) To extend; to protrude; as, the cat can protract its claws; -- opposed to retract.

(n.) Tedious continuance or delay.

錄入:麦克唐纳

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. Prolong, continue, draw out, lengthen, spin out.

校對:西尔玛

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Prolong, produce, elongate, defer, extend, lengthen, continue, draw_out

ANT:Shorten, abbreviate, curtail, contract, reduce

吉尔伯特校對

解釋/意思:

v.t. to draw out or lengthen in time: to prolong: to put off in time: to draw to a scale.—p.adj. Protrac′ted drawn out in time: tedious: prolonged: postponed.—adv. Protrac′tedly.—n. Protrac′ter.—adj. Protrac′tile susceptible of being thrust out.—n. Protrac′tion act of protracting or prolonging: the delaying of the termination of a thing: the plotting or laying down of the dimensions of anything on paper.—adj. Protrac′tive drawing out in time: prolonging: delaying.—n. Protrac′tor one who or that which protracts: a mathematical instrument for laying down angles on paper used in surveying &c.

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