A tract is a large, open piece of land like that tract of farmland you bought when you decided your dream in life was to raise llamas. Tract is also a word for a short pamphlet or booklet, like that tract you recently read entitled "The Care and Feeding of Llamas."
A written discourse or dissertation, generally of short extent; a short treatise, especially on practical religion.
Noun
a bundle of mylenated nerve fibers following a path through the brain
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
Noun
an extended area of land
n.
A written discourse or dissertation, generally of short
extent; a short treatise, especially on practical religion.
v.
Something drawn out or extended; expanse.
v.
A region or quantity of land or water, of indefinite extent;
an area; as, an unexplored tract of sea.
v.
Traits; features; lineaments.
v.
The footprint of a wild beast.
v.
Track; trace.
v.
Treatment; exposition.
v.
Continuity or extension of anything; as, the tract of
speech.
v.
Continued or protracted duration; length; extent.
v.
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.
v. t.
To trace out; to track; also, to draw out; to protact.
Tract
The church clergy at that writ the best collection of tracts against popery that ever appeared.
Tract
A very high mountain joined to the mainland by a narrowtract of earth.3.
The discovery of a man's self by the tracts of his countenance is a great weakness.4.
Efface all tract of its traduction.
But flies an eagle flight, bold, and forthon, Leaving no tract behind.6.
Tract
A written discourse or dissertation, generally of short extent; a short treatise, especially on practical religion.
Something drawn out or extended; expanse.
To trace out; to track; also, to draw out; to protact.
Usage Examples
A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.
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Other Usage ExamplesWar consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
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