tract

noun

/trækt/

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(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.

单词	tract
释义	tract noun /trækt/ /trækt/ jump to other results (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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