Definizione monolingua

tract

tract (third-person singular simple present tracts, present participle tracting, simple past and past participle tracted)

1. (obsolete) To pursue, follow; to track.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:

     Where may that treachour then (said he) be found, / Or by what meanes may I his footing tract?

tract (plural tracts)

1. An area or expanse of land.
2. A series of connected body organs, as in 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 of interest.
5. A commentators view or perspective on a subject.
6. Continued or protracted duration, length, extent
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XIV, Henry of Essex

     Nay, in another case of litigation, the unjust Standard bearer, for his own profit, asserting that the cause belonged not to St. Edmund’s Court, but to his in Lailand Hundred, involved us in travellings and innumerable expenses, vexing the servants of St. Edmund for a long tract of time […]

Definizione dizionario tract

distesa

regione

territorio

tratto

zona

Altri significati:

A commentator's view or perspective on a subject.

Continued or protracted duration, length, extent

a series of connected body organs

A brief treatise or discourse on a subject of interest.

A series of connected body organs, as in the digestive tract.

an area

a small booklet

(obsolete) To pursue, follow; to track.

A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses.

a brief treatise

An area or expanse of land.