English dictionary
tract
nounPronunciation
/tɹækt/
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Parts of speech
Definitions
noun
- An area or expanse.
- A series of connected body organs, as in the digestive tract.
- A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses.
- A brief treatise or discourse on a subject.
- A commentator's view or perspective on a subject.
- Continued or protracted duration, length, extent
- Part of the proper of the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations, used instead of the alleluia during Lenten or pre-Lenten seasons, in a Requiem Mass, and on a few other penitential occasions.
- Continuity or extension of anything.
- Traits; features; lineaments.
- The footprint of a wild animal.
- Track; trace.
- Treatment; exposition.
verb
- To pursue, follow; to track.
- To draw out; to protract.
Example sentences
an unexplored tract of sea
the tract of speech