Tract

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An expanse of land or water.
  • n. A specified or limited area of land: developing a 30-acre tract.
  • n. Anatomy A system of organs and tissues that together perform a specialized function: the alimentary tract.
  • n. Anatomy A bundle of nerve fibers having a common origin, termination, and function.
  • n. Archaic A stretch or lapse of time.
  • n. A leaflet or pamphlet containing a declaration or appeal, especially one put out by a religious or political group.
  • n. The verses from Scripture sung during Lent or on Ember Days after the gradual in the Roman Catholic Mass.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An area or expanse of land.
  • n. A series of connected body organs, as in the digestive tract.
  • n. A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses.
  • n. A brief treatise or discourse on a subject of interest.
  • n. A commentator's view or perspective on a subject.
  • n. Continued or protracted duration, length, extent
  • v. To pursue, follow; to track.
  • v. To draw out; to protract.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A written discourse or dissertation, generally of short extent; a short treatise, especially on practical religion.
  • n. Something drawn out or extended; expanse.
  • n. A region or quantity of land or water, of indefinite extent; an area.
  • n. Traits; features; lineaments.
  • n. The footprint of a wild beast.
  • n. Track; trace.
  • n. Treatment; exposition.
  • n. Continuity or extension of anything.
  • n. Continued or protracted duration; length; extent.
  • n. 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. To trace out; to track; also, to draw out; to protact.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To draw; draw out; protract; waste.
  • To trace; track; follow.
  • n. Extent; a continued passage or duration; process; lapse: used chiefly in the phrase tract of time.
  • n. Course or route; track; way.
  • n. Course or movement; action.
  • n. Attractive influence; attraction; charm.
  • n. Extent; expanse; hence, a region of indefinite extent; a more or less extended area or stretch of land or water: as, a tract of woodland.
  • n. Trait; lineament; feature.
  • n. In anatomy, an area or expanse; the extension of an organ or a system: as, the digestive or alimentary tract; the optic tract. Also called tractus (which see).
  • n. In ornithology, a pteryla, or feathered place: distinguished from space.
  • n. In heraldry, same as tressure.
  • n. The air-passages collectively.
  • To handle; treat.
  • Hence To discourse or treat of; describe; delineate.
  • n. A short treatise, discourse, or dissertation; especially, a brief printed treatise or discourse on some topic of practical religion.
  • n. In the Roman and some other Western liturgies, an anthem consisting of verses from Scripture (generally from the Psalms), sung instead of the Alleluia after the gradual, or instead of the gradual, from Septuagesima till Easter eve: so called from being sung ‘continuously’ (tractim) by the cantor without interruption of other voices. Also tractus.
  • n. Track; footprint.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an extended area of land
  • n. a brief treatise on a subject of interest; published in the form of a booklet
  • n. a system of body parts that together serve some particular purpose
  • n. a bundle of myelinated nerve fibers following a path through the brain
  • Verb Form
    tracting    tracts   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    treatise   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    region    treatise    dissertation    essay    district    quarter    expanse    area    traits    features   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    abstract    act    attacked    attract    backed    blacked    compact    contract    counterattacked    cracked   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    expanse    region    pamphlet    valley    portion    ridge    patch    wilderness    poem    waste