tract
1- an expanse or area of land, water, etc.; region; stretch.
- Anatomy.
- a definite region or area of the body, especially a group, series, or system of related parts or organs: the digestive tract.
- a bundle of nerve fibers having a common origin and destination.
- a stretch or period of time; interval; lapse.
- Roman Catholic Church. an anthem consisting of verses of Scripture, sung after the gradual in the Mass from Septuagesima until the day before Easter and on certain other occasions, taking the place of the alleluias and the verse that ordinarily accompany the gradual.
- Ornithology. a pteryla.
Origin of tract
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2- a brief treatise or pamphlet for general distribution, usually on a religious or political topic.
Origin of tract
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plot, parcel, estate, section, expanse, portion, sector, quarter, zone, district, stretch, region, belt, field, part, amplitude, extent, piece, spread, platExamples from the Web for tract
Contemporary Examples of tract
The gastrointestinal (GI) tract performs different digestive functions are various different locations.
‘Rectal Feeding’ Has Nothing to Do with Nutrition, Everything to Do with TortureRussell Saunders
December 10, 2014
On a 2,813-acre tract roughly 30 miles west, Washington found a Calvinist sect called the Seceders squatting on his land.
Please note that I made a contribution after reading the tract, i.e., I too am a hug-a-whale sort of guy.
For Coming Soon, Gordon's initial plan was to make and then display her wreath paintings in a low-budget California tract house.
Kim Gordon: Going Solo After Sonic Youth, and Why She Identifies With ‘Girls’Andrew Romano
April 10, 2014
If a tract is deemed suitable for development, it is listed for sale in a competitive bidding system.
Historical Examples of tract
The business proposed was to buy a tract of land, and subdivide it.
Within the LawMarvin Dana
In moving sideways, the Tract or Line must also be considered as to its two sides, viz.
OrchesographyJohn Weaver
This Tract is only a borrow'd Tract, and which may be drawn any way, as shall be most convenient.
OrchesographyJohn Weaver
In this tract he invites every man to utter his views on the subject.
Slavery Ordained of GodRev. Fred A. Ross, D.D.
Of John Blacman or Blakman, the author of our tract, not a great deal is known.
Henry the SixthJohn Blacman
tract
1- an extended area, as of land
- anatomy a system of organs, glands, or other tissues that has a particular functionthe digestive tract
- a bundle of nerve fibres having the same function, origin, and terminationthe optic tract
- archaic an extended period of time
Word Origin for tract
tract
2- a treatise or pamphlet, esp a religious or moralistic one
Word Origin for tract
tract
3- RC Church an anthem in some Masses
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Word Origin and History for tract
"area," late 15c., "period or lapse of time," from Latin tractus "track, course, space, duration," lit, "a drawing out or pulling," from stem of trahere "to pull, draw," from PIE root *tragh- "to draw, drag, move" (cf. Slovenian trag "trace, track," Middle Irish tragud "ebb," perhaps with a variant form *dhragh-; see drag (v.)). The meaning "stretch of land or water" is first recorded 1550s. Specific U.S. sense of "plot of land for development" is recorded from 1912; tract houses attested from 1963.
"little book, treatise" mid-12c., probably a shortened form of Latin tractatus "a handling, treatise, treatment," from tractare "to handle" (see treat). Not in any other language, according to OED.
tract
(trăkt)- An elongated assembly of tissue or organs having a common origin, function, and termination, or a serial arrangement having a common function.
- A bundle of nerve fibers having a common origin, termination, and function.
tract
- A series of body organs that work together to perform a specialized function, such as digestion.
- A bundle of nerve fibers, especially in the central nervous system, that begin and end in the same place and share a common function.