Definitions for Tract

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Tract tract

Spelling: [trakt]

IPA: /trækt/

Tract is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in Tract (acrtt).

Definitions for Tract

noun

1. an expanse or area of land, water, etc.; region; stretch.
2. Anatomy. a definite region or area of the body, especially a group, series, or system of related parts or organs: a bundle of nerve fibers having a common origin and destination.
3. a stretch or period of time; interval; lapse.
4. 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.
5. Ornithology. a pteryla.
6. a brief treatise or pamphlet for general distribution, usually on a religious or political topic.

Origin of Tract

1350-1400; (in senses referring to extent of space) Latin tractus stretch (of space or time), a drawing out, equivalent to trac-, variant stem of trahere to draw + -tus suffix of v. action; (

Examples for Tract

On a 2,813-acre tract roughly 30 miles west, Washington found a Calvinist sect called the Seceders squatting on his land.

In moving sideways, the tract or Line must also be considered as to its two sides, viz.

The gastrointestinal (GI) tract performs different digestive functions are various different locations.

In this tract he invites every man to utter his views on the subject.

The business proposed was to buy a tract of land, and subdivide it.

Please note that I made a contribution after reading the tract, i.e., I too am a hug-a-whale sort of guy.

Of John Blacman or Blakman, the author of our tract, not a great deal is known.

For Coming Soon, Gordon's initial plan was to make and then display her wreath paintings in a low-budget California tract house.

If a tract is deemed suitable for development, it is listed for sale in a competitive bidding system.

This tract is only a borrow'd tract, and which may be drawn any way, as shall be most convenient.