Definitions for TRACT
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcelnoun

   an extended area of land

2. tractnoun

   a system of body parts that together serve some particular purpose

3. tract, pamphletnoun

   a brief treatise on a subject of interest; published in the form of a booklet

4. nerve pathway, tract, nerve tract, pathwaynoun

   a bundle of myelinated nerve fibers following a path through the brain

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. TRACTnoun

   Etymology: tractus, Lat.

   1. Any kind of extended substance.2. A region; a quantity of land.

   Only there are some tracts which, by high mountains, are barred from air and fresh wind. Walter Raleigh.

   Heav’n hides nothing from thy view,
   Nor the deep tract of hell. John Milton.

   Monte Circeio, by called insula Æea, is a very high mountain joined to the main land by a narrow tract of earth. Addison.

   3. Continuity; any thing protracted, or drawn out to length.

   The myrtle flourisheth still; and wonderful it is that for so long a tract of time she should still continue fresh. James Howell.

   Your bodies may at last turn all to spirit,
   Improv’d by tract of time, and wing’d ascend
   Ethereal as we. John Milton.

   As in tract of speech a dubious word is easily known by the coherence with the rest, and a dubious letter by the whole word; so may a deaf person, having competent knowledge of language, by an acute sagacity by some more evident word discerned by his eye, know the sense. William Holder.

   4. Course; manner of process; unless it means, in this place, rather, discourse; explanation.

   The tract of every thing
   Would, by a good discourser, lose some life
   Which action’s self was tongue to. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.

   5. It seems to be used by William Shakespeare for track.

   The weary sun hath made a golden set,
   And, by the bright tract of his fiery car,
   Gives signal of a goodly day to-morrow. William Shakespeare.

   6. [ Tractatus, Lat.]A treatise; a small book.

   The church clergy at that time writ the best collection of tracts against popery that ever appeared. Jonathan Swift.

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1. tract

   A tract refers to a large area of land or a defined region, usually uninhabited or designated for a specific purpose. It could also refer to a major passage or pathway in the body, such as in the digestive or nervous system. In literature, it's a short written work on a religious or political topic.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:3.5 / 2 votes

1. Tractnoun

   a written discourse or dissertation, generally of short extent; a short treatise, especially on practical religion

2. Tract

   something drawn out or extended; expanse

3. Tract

   a region or quantity of land or water, of indefinite extent; an area; as, an unexplored tract of sea

4. Tract

   traits; features; lineaments

5. Tract

   the footprint of a wild beast

6. Tract

   track; trace

7. Tract

   treatment; exposition

8. Tract

   continuity or extension of anything; as, the tract of speech

9. Tract

   continued or protracted duration; length; extent

10. Tract

    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

11. Tractverb

    to trace out; to track; also, to draw out; to protact

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tract

   The tract is part of the proper of the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations, which is used instead of the Alleluia during Lenten or pre-Lenten seasons, in a Requiem Mass, and on a few other penitential occasions, when the joyousness of an Alleluia is deemed inappropriate. Tracts are not, however, necessarily sorrowful. The name apparently derives from either the drawn-out style of singing or the continuous structure without a refrain. There is evidence, however, that the earliest performances were sung responsorially, and it is probable that these were dropped at an early age. In their final form, tracts are a series of psalm verses; rarely a complete psalm, but all of the verses from the same psalm. They are restricted to only two modes, the second and the eighth. The melodies follow centonization patterns more strongly than anywhere else in the repertoire; a typical tract is almost exclusively a succession of such formulas. The cadences are nearly always elaborate melismas. Tracts with multiple verses are some of the longest chants in the Liber Usualis.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tract

   trakt, n. something drawn out or extended: continued duration: a region, area: a short treatise: an anthem sung instead of the Alleluia after the gradual, or instead of it, from Septuagesima till Easter-eve.—n. Tractabil′ity, quality or state of being tractable: docility.—adj. Trac′table, easily drawn, managed, or taught: docile.—n. Trac′tableness.—adv. Trac′tably.—n. Trac′tate, a treatise, tract.—adj. Trac′tile, that may be drawn out.—ns. Tractil′ity, the quality of being tractile: ductility; Trac′tion, act of drawing or state of being drawn; Trac′tion-en′gine, a steam vehicle for hauling heavy weights along a road, &c.—adj. Trac′tive, that draws or pulls.—ns. Trac′tor, that which draws, esp. in pl. metallic tractors, two bars of iron and of steel, drawn over diseased parts of the body to give supposed relief; Tractorā′tion, the use of metallic tractors in medicine. [L. tractus, pa.p. of trahĕre, to draw.]

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   • System
   • Treatise
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How to pronounce TRACT?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of TRACT in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of TRACT in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of TRACT in a Sentence

1. Adams Waldorf:

   We need more research into understanding the inflammation that occurs in the urinary tract infection and how it might impact the fetus.

2. Steven Munger:

   What we've known for a long time is one of the major causes of smell loss are upper respiratory tract infections due to viruses -- a common cold, influenza -- a subset of people lose their sense of smell, most of them temporarily, but a small subset lose that smell permanently.

3. Travis Barker:

   In case of deep enteroscopy, like double balloon or single balloon scopes, [which] gets to a deep length [of the gastrointestinal tract] to check small bowel problems, the concept is same as pressure trauma [to cause pancreatitis].

4. Cynthia Sass:

   Just 2 to 20 percent of the iron in plant foods makes its way from your digestive tract into your blood, compared to 15 to 35 percent from heme animal-based iron.

5. Tara Vijayan:

   More commonly, however, if the flu is going to cause severe disease it is because it disrupts the lining of the respiratory tract such that the lungs become more susceptible to other bacterial pneumonias, generally, those who are unvaccinated and have multiple medical problems or have lowered immune systems are at highest risk, but we have seen death in younger otherwise healthy people.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=TRACT
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=TRACT
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/TRACT
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=TRACT
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=TRACT