Tract
11tract — Ⅰ. tract [1] ► NOUN 1) a large area of land. 2) a major passage in the body or other continuous elongated anatomical structure. ORIGIN Latin tractus drawing, draught , from trahere draw, pull . Ⅱ. tract [2] …
12tract — tract1 [trakt] n. [L tractus, a drawing out, extent < pp. of trahere, to DRAW] 1. Archaic a) duration or lapse of time b) a period of time 2. a continuous expanse of land or of water, mineral deposit, etc.; stretch; extent; area ☆ 3 …
13Tract — Tract, s. Tractus …
14tract — *area, region, zone, belt Analogous words: *expanse, stretch, spread, amplitude: *locality, district, vicinity: section, sector, *part, portion …
15tract — [n] area, lot amplitude, belt, district, estate, expanse, extent, field, parcel, part, piece, plat, plot, portion, quarter, region, section, sector, spread, stretch, zone; concepts 508,513 …
16tract — ac·e·tract; at·tract; at·tract·a·ble; at·tract·ance; at·tract·ant; at·tract·ing·ly; con·tract·able; con·tract·ant; con·tract·ile; con·tract·less; con·tract·om·e·ter; de·tract; de·tract·er; de·tract·ing·ly; dis·tract·ed·ly; dis·tract·ibil·i·ty;… …
17tract — An elongated area, e.g., path, track, way. SEE ALSO: fascicle. SYN: tractus. [L. tractus, a drawing out] alimentary t. SYN: digestive t.. anterior corticospinal t. uncrossed fibers forming a small bundle in the anterior funiculus of the …
18Tract — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Flyer. Distributeur de prospectus à Paris en 1912 Un tract, un prospectus ou un flyer …
19tract — [[t]træ̱kt[/t]] tracts 1) N COUNT: usu N of n A tract of land or tracts of land is a very large area of land. A vast tract of land is ready for development... They cleared large tracts of forest for farming, logging and ranching. 2) N COUNT A… …
20Tract 90 — Remarks on Certain Passages in the Thirty Nine Articles is the most famous and the most controversial of the Tracts for the Times (from which the term Tractarian is derived), produced by the first generation of the Anglo Catholic Oxford Movement …
