tract

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An area or expanse.
    — an unexplored tract of sea
  2. A series of connected body organs, such as the digestive tract.
  3. A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses.
  4. A brief treatise or discourse on a subject.
    — The church clergy at that writ the best collection of tracts against popery that ever appeared.
  5. A commentator's view or perspective on a subject.
  6. Continued or protracted duration, length, extent
    — improved by tract of time
  7. Part of the proper of the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations, used instead of the alleluia during Lenten or pre-Lenten seasons, in a Requiem Mass, and on a few other penitential occasions.
  8. Continuity or extension of anything. obsolete
    — in tract of speech
  9. Traits; features; lineaments. obsolete
    — The discovery of a man's self by the tracts of his countenance is a great weakness.
  10. The footprint of a wild animal. obsolete
    — The Prophet Telemus […]mark'd the Tracts of every Bird that flew
  11. Track; trace. obsolete
    — Efface all tract of its traduction.
  12. Treatment; exposition. obsolete
    — The tract of every thing Would, by a good discourser, lose some life Which action's self was tongue to.
动词 v.
  1. To pursue, follow; to track. obsolete
    — Where may that treachour then (said he) be found, / Or by what meanes may I his footing tract?
  2. To treat, discourse, negotiate. obsolete,transitive
  3. To draw out; to protract. obsolete
    — Speak to me , muse , the man , who after Troy was sack'd , Saw many towns and men , and could their manners tract.

词形变化

tracts plural tracts present,singular,third-person tracting participle,present tracted participle,past tracted past tracts present,singular,third-person tracting participle,present tracted participle,past tracted past

词汇关系

衍生词
biliary tract census tract digestive tract gastrointestinal tract GI tract iliotibial tract lower respiratory tract pyramidal tract respiratory tract spinoreticular tract Tractarian tract home tract house tract housing Tractite tractlet tract mansion tractography tractotomy tract society Trans-Karakoram Tract upper respiratory tract urinary tract urinary tract infection vocal tract von Monakow's tract
相关词
abstract attract contract detract distract extract protract retract subtract tractor tractable tractate tractile traction tractive trait treat

词源

词源 1
From Middle English tract, tracte, traht (“a treatise, exposition, commentary”), from Old English traht, tract (“a treatise, exposition, commentary, text, passage”); and also from Middle English tract, tracte (“an expanse of space or time”); both from Latin tractus (“a haul, drawing, a drawing out”), the perfect passive participle of trahō. Doublet of trait.
词源 2
From Latin tractus, the participle stem of trahere (“to pull, drag”).
词源 3
From Latin tractāre, from tractō, from trahō + -tō.
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