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tract 音标拼音: [tr'ækt] n. 广阔的地面,土地,地方,小册子 广阔的地面,土地,地方,小册子 tract n 1: an extended area of land [ synonym: { tract}, { piece of land}, { piece of ground}, { parcel of land}, { parcel}] 2: a system of body parts that together serve some particular purpose 3: a brief treatise on a subject of interest; published in the form of a booklet [ synonym: { tract}, { pamphlet}] 4: a bundle of myelinated nerve fibers following a path through the brain [ synonym: { nerve pathway}, { tract}, { nerve tract}, { pathway}] 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]
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]
Tract \ Tract\, v. t. To trace out; to track; also, to draw out; to protact. [ Obs.] -- Spenser. -- B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster] 139 Moby Thesaurus words for " tract": 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
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