'Tract' definitions:
Definition of 'tract'
From: WordNet
noun
noun
A system of body parts that together serve some particular purpose
noun
A brief treatise on a subject of interest; published in the form of a booklet [syn: tract, pamphlet]
noun
A bundle of myelinated nerve fibers following a path through the brain [syn: nerve pathway, tract, nerve tract, pathway]
Definition of 'Tract'
From: GCIDE
- Tract \Tract\, n. [Abbrev.fr. tractate.] A written discourse or dissertation, generally of short extent; a short treatise, especially on practical religion. [1913 Webster]
- The church clergy at that time writ the best collection of tracts against popery that ever appeared. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- Tracts for the Times. See Tractarian. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Tract'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A region or quantity of land or water, of indefinite extent; an area; as, an unexplored tract of sea. [1913 Webster]
- A very high mountain joined to the mainland by a narrow tract of earth. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Traits; features; lineaments. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- The discovery of a man's self by the tracts of his countenance is a great weakness. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The footprint of a wild beast. [Obs.] --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Track; trace. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Efface all tract of its traduction. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
- But flies an eagle flight, bold, and forthon, Leaving no tract behind. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Treatment; exposition. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 7. Continuity or extension of anything; as, the tract of speech. [Obs.] --Older. [1913 Webster]
- 8. Continued or protracted duration; length; extent. "Improved by tract of time." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Region; district; quarter; essay; treatise; dissertation. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Tract'
From: GCIDE
- Tract \Tract\, v. t. To trace out; to track; also, to draw out; to protact. [Obs.] --Spenser. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'tract'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Tract'
- Scapular tract,
- Tracts for the Times,
- alimentary tract,
- corticospinal tract,
- digestive tract,
- gastrointestinal tract,
- gi tract,
- nerve tract,
- optic tract,
- pyramidal tract,
- respiratory tract,
- tract house,
- tract housing,
- urinary tract,
- alimentary tract smear,
- lower respiratory tract,
- respiratory tract infection,
- upper respiratory tract,
- urinary tract infection,
- lower respiratory tract smear