tract
Speech parts
1. tract - Noun
2. tract - Verb
Meaning
A written discourse or dissertation, generally of short extent; a short treatise, especially on practical religion.
Something drawn out or extended; expanse.
A region or quantity of land or water, of indefinite extent; an area; as, an unexplored tract of sea.
Traits; features; lineaments.
The footprint of a wild beast.
Track; trace.
Treatment; exposition.
Continuity or extension of anything; as, the tract of speech.
Continued or protracted duration; length; extent.
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.
To trace out; to track; also, to draw out; to protact.
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A 2015 study by magazine lists my area as a “tract not eligible to gentrify.”
A 26-acre tract on North Ardenwood Drive tapped as the spot for a new multifamily development has been sold to the project’s developers.
Additionally, gynaecologists make frequent use of specialized hormone -modulating therapies (such as Clomifene citrate and hormonal contraception ) to treat disorders of the female genital tract that are responsive to pituitary and/or gonadal signals.
Affricates and co-articulated consonants Co-articulated consonants are sounds that involve two simultaneous places of articulation (are pronounced using two parts of the vocal tract ).
“Adult females lay eggs in the abomasum, eggs pass through the gastrointestinal tract, and once they’re out of the tract and in feces on the ground, eggs develop into larvae and complete three larval stages.”
After birth, a foal's navel is dipped in antiseptic to prevent infection, it is sometimes given an enema to help clear the meconium from its digestive tract, and the newborn is monitored to ensure that it stands and nurses without difficulty.