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Pronunciation


Noun

  1. An area or expanse of land.
  2. A series of connected body organs, as in the digestive tract.
  3. A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses.
  4. A brief treatise or discourse on a subject of interest.
  5. A commentator's view or perspective on a subject.


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Translations

  • German: {{t+|de|Gebiet|n}}
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|extensão|m}}
  • Spanish: {{t-|es|extensión|f}}
  • Catalan: tracte
  • Czech: {{t-|cs|ústrojí|n}}
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|kanaal|n}}, {{t+|nl|stelsel|n}}
  • Finnish: , ,
  • German: {{t-|de|Trakt|m}}
  • Spanish: {{t-|es|tracto|m}}
  • Spanish: {{t-|es|folleto|m}}
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|tratado|m}}
  • Spanish: tratado ,

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Tract \Tract\, v. t.
To trace out; to track; also, to draw out; to protact. [Obs.]
--Spenser. --B. Jonson.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Tract \Tract\, n. [L. tractus a drawing, train, track, course,
tract of land, from trahere tractum, to draw. Senses 4 and 5
are perhaps due to confusion with track. See Trace,v., and
cf. Tratt.]
1. Something drawn out or extended; expanse. "The deep tract
of hell." --Milton.
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2. A region or quantity of land or water, of indefinite
extent; an area; as, an unexplored tract of sea.
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A very high mountain joined to the mainland by a
narrow tract of earth. --Addison.
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3. Traits; features; lineaments. [Obs.]
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The discovery of a man's self by the tracts of his
countenance is a great weakness. --Bacon.
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4. The footprint of a wild beast. [Obs.] --Dryden.
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5. Track; trace. [Obs.]
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Efface all tract of its traduction. --Sir T.
Browne.
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But flies an eagle flight, bold, and forthon,
Leaving no tract behind. --Shak.
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6. Treatment; exposition. [Obs.] --Shak.
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7. Continuity or extension of anything; as, the tract of
speech. [Obs.] --Older.
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8. Continued or protracted duration; length; extent.
"Improved by tract of time." --Milton.
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9. (R. C. Ch.) 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.
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Syn: Region; district; quarter; essay; treatise;
dissertation.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Tract \Tract\, n. [Abbrev.fr. tractate.]
A written discourse or dissertation, generally of short
extent; a short treatise, especially on practical religion.
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The church clergy at that time writ the best collection
of tracts against popery that ever appeared. --Swift.
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Tracts for the Times. See Tractarian.
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WordNet tract
n 1: an extended area of land [syn: piece of land, {piece of
ground}, parcel of land, parcel]
2: a system of body parts that together serve some particular
purpose
3: a brief treatise on a subject of interest; published in the
form of a booklet [syn: pamphlet]
4: a bundle of mylenated nerve fibers following a path through
the brain [syn: nerve pathway, nerve tract, pathway]
Moby Dictionary
acreage , amplitude , area , article , assembly-line housing , belt ,
billeting , block , booklet , breadth , brochure , causerie , chapbook ,
circular , clearing , clos , close , comic book , continuum , corn field ,
critique , croft , cultivated land , descant , dimension , discourse ,
discussion , disquisition , dissertation , district , domiciliation ,
doss , emptiness , empty space , enclave , essay , etude , examination ,
excursus , expanse , expansion , exposition , extension , extent ,
feature , field , first approach , folder , footstep , forty ,
galactic space , hayfield , homily , hospitality , housing ,
housing bill , housing development , housing problem , infinite space ,
interstellar space , introductory study , kraal , leaflet ,
living quarters , lodging , lodgment , lot , lower-income housing ,
lucubration , measure , memoir , monograph , morceau , note ,
nothingness , outer space , outline , paddy , pale , pamphlet , pandect ,
paper , paragraph , parcel , parcel of land , part , patch , piece ,
piece of land , plat , plot , plot of ground , portion ,
preliminary study , prolegomenon , proportion , quad , quadrangle ,
quarter , quartering , real estate , region , research paper ,
rice paddy , screed , section , sector , sermon , sketch ,
slum clearance , space , spatial extension , special article , sphere ,
spoor , spread , square , step , stretch , study , subdivision ,
superficial extension , surface , survey , term paper , territory ,
theme , thesis , track , tractate , transient lodging , treatise ,
treatment , urban renewal , vestige , void , volume , wheat field ,
zone


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