Tract
[trækt]
Definition
(noun.) a system of body parts that together serve some particular purpose.
(noun.) a brief treatise on a subject of interest; published in the form of a booklet.
(noun.) an extended area of land.
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Definition
(n.) A written discourse or dissertation, generally of short extent; a short treatise, especially on practical religion.
(v.) Something drawn out or extended; expanse.
(v.) A region or quantity of land or water, of indefinite extent; an area; as, an unexplored tract of sea.
(v.) Traits; features; lineaments.
(v.) The footprint of a wild beast.
(v.) Track; trace.
(v.) Treatment; exposition.
(v.) Continuity or extension of anything; as, the tract of speech.
(v.) Continued or protracted duration; length; extent.
(v.) Verses of Scripture sung at Mass, instead of the Alleluia, from Septuagesima Sunday till the Saturday befor Easter; -- so called because sung tractim, or without a break, by one voice, instead of by many as in the antiphons.
(v. t.) To trace out; to track; also, to draw out; to protact.
Checker: Rhonda
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Region, district, territory, quarter.[2]. Piece (of land), part, portion, parcel, plot, patch.[3]. Treatise, dissertation, pamphlet, essay.
Edited by Hardy
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Confide, rely, credit, believe, charge, deposit, entrust, repose, hope
ANT:Distrust, suspect, discredit, doubt, disbelieve, resume, withdraw, despair
SYN:District, quarter, region, piece, patch
Edited by Cheryl
Definition
n. something drawn out or extended: continued duration: a region area: a short treatise: an anthem sung instead of the Alleluia after the gradual or instead of it from Septuagesima till Easter-eve.—n. Tractabil′ity quality or state of being tractable: docility.—adj. Trac′table easily drawn managed or taught: docile.—n. Trac′tableness.—adv. Trac′tably.—n. Trac′tate a treatise tract.—adj. Trac′tile that may be drawn out.—ns. Tractil′ity the quality of being tractile: ductility; Trac′tion act of drawing or state of being drawn; Trac′tion-en′gine a steam vehicle for hauling heavy weights along a road &c.—adj. Trac′tive that draws or pulls.—ns. Trac′tor that which draws esp. in pl. metallic tractors two bars of iron and of steel drawn over diseased parts of the body to give supposed relief; Tractorā′tion the use of metallic tractors in medicine.
Edited by Hamilton
Examples
- D'Alibard, who made the first experiments in France, says that he only followed the tract which Franklin had pointed out. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- A rich American had bought a tract of central real estate in Paris and had built a row of shops arranged on the two sides of a cloister. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I sowed the good seed, in spite of him, by throwing a second tract in at the window of the cab. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Holmes pointed down the long tract of road which wound, a reddish yellow band, between the brown of the heath and the budding green of the woods. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He took a tract of land sixty miles in circumference and set to work to make this park and build this palace and a road to it from Paris. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Mr. Cowper recommended the Religious Tract Society to put aside their coarse woodcuts, to have superior wood engravings, and to print with his machine. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Will you favour me by accepting a tract? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Large tract of marshes about here, I believe? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- These are divided into tracts of about the same size, each tract being under the supervision of one or more government officers. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The tract was one of a series addressed to young women on the sinfulness of dress. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The tribe to which he belonged roamed a tract extending, roughly, twenty-five miles along the seacoast and some fifty miles inland. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The old man frequently stretched his eyes ahead to gaze over the tract that he had yet to traverse. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- In my hand I held the tract containing the sudden death of the Liar, to which narrative my attention had been pointed as to an appropriate warning. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- While caressing the spaniel, his eye roved over the papers and books just replaced; it settled on the religious tract. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I waited till the door was shut on me, and slipped the tract into the letter-box. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- One is reminded of the lines of Tennyson: Large elements in order brought And tracts of calm from tempest made, And world fluctuation swayed In vassal tides that followed thought. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I fell into a beaten road, where I saw many tracts of human feet, and some of cows, but most of horses. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Well, she not only took tracts, but she read them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I hope I shall never see you or your tracts again. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The Countess Southdown kept on dropping per coach at the lodge-gate the most exciting tracts, tracts which ought to frighten the hair off your head. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- These are divided into tracts of about the same size, each tract being under the supervision of one or more government officers. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- They cut, indeed, vast tracts of grain and grass, but the machines had to be followed by an army of men to bind and gather the fallen grain. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- But she is boring all the men horribly, and if she takes to distributing tracts, as I hear she does, it will be too depressing. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- He walked through the warm sun westward into those tracts of Egdon with which he was best acquainted, being those lying nearer to his old home. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I sat there quite immovable, with my tracts at my elbow and with Miss Jane Ann Stamper on my lap. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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