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Definition of 'Tract'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) tract
an expanse or area of land, water, etc.; region; stretch.

2.  tract
a definite region or area of the body, esp. a system of elongated parts or organs:
the digestive tract.

3.  tract
a bundle of nerve fibers having a common origin and destination.

4.  tract
a stretch or period of time; interval; lapse.

5.  tract
a Roman Catholic penitential anthem consisting of scriptural verses, sung after the gradual, esp. before Easter.

6. (n.) tract
a brief treatise or pamphlet for general distribution, usu. on a religious or political topic.

Etymology: (1400–50; late ME tracte, appar. shortening of ML tractātustractate)

Definition of 'Tract'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel
an extended area of land

2. (noun) tract
a system of body parts that together serve some particular purpose

3. (noun) tract, pamphlet
a brief treatise on a subject of interest; published in the form of a booklet

4. (noun) nerve pathway, tract, nerve tract, pathway
a bundle of myelinated nerve fibers following a path through the brain

Definition of 'Tract'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Tract
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. (verb) Tract
to trace out; to track; also, to draw out; to protact

Translation of 'Tract'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a piece of land.
Afrikaans: stuk grond	Arabic: مِنْطَقَه واسِعَه	Bulgarian: парче земя
Brazilian: lote	Czech: kraj	German: ausgedehnte Fläche
Danish: område	Greek: έκταση	Spanish: extensión
Estonian: maa-ala	Farsi: قطعه؛ قواره	Finnish: maa-alue
French: étendue	Hebrew: מֶרחַב	Hindi: क्षेत्र
Croatian: predjel, komad zemlje	Hungarian: terület	Indonesian: sebidang tanah
Icelandic: svæði, spilda	Italian: tratto, estensione	Japanese: 土地の広がり
Korean: 지대	Lithuanian: žemės plotas	Latvian: zemesgabals
Malay: kawasan	Dutch: landstreek	Norwegian: parsell, landområde
Polish: połać	Persian: قطعه؛ قواره	Pashto: قطعه، قواره
Romanian: întindere	Russian: полоса пространства	Slovak: kraj, oblasť
Slovenian: kos zemljišča	Serbian: parče zemlje	Swedish: område
Thai: พื้นที่	Turkish: arazi parçası	Taiwanese: 一片土地
Ukrainian: ділянка; обшир, площина	Urdu: قطعۂ زمين	Vietnamese: dải đất
Chinese: 一片土地
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