tract
noun/trækt/
/trækt/
- (biology) a system of connected organs or tissues along which materials or messages pass
- the digestive tract
- a nerve tract
- an area of land, especially a large one synonym stretch
- vast tracts of forest
- They bought a 40-acre tract of land for development.
Extra Examples- The county has small towns and villages and large tracts of moorland.
- Whole tracts of the countryside have been turned into industrial wasteland.
- (sometimes disapproving) a short piece of writing, especially on a religious, moral or political subject, that is intended to influence people’s ideas
- feminist tracts
Word Originsenses 1 to 2 late Middle English (in the sense ‘duration or course of time’): from Latin tractus ‘drawing, draught’, from trahere ‘draw, pull’.sense 3 late Middle English (denoting a written work treating a particular topic), apparently an abbreviation of Latin tractatus, from tractare ‘to handle’, frequentative of trahere ‘draw’. The current sense dates from the early 19th cent.
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