tract.
An area or expanse.
Meaning & usage
An area or expanse.
an unexplored tract of sea
A series of connected body organs, such as 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.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English tract, tracte, traht (“a treatise, exposition, commentary”), from Old English traht, tract (“a treatise, exposition, commentary, text, passage”); and also from Middle English tract, tracte (“an expanse of space or time”); both from Latin tractus (“a haul, drawing, a drawing out”), the perfect passive participle of trahō. Doublet of trait.
To pursue, follow; to track.
To draw out; to protract.
Where this word comes from
From Latin tractus, the participle stem of trahere (“to pull, drag”).
To treat, discourse, negotiate.
Where this word comes from
From Latin tractāre, from tractō, from trahō + -tō.
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