tractnoun [ C ]
uk/trækt/us/trækt/tract noun [ C ] (WRITING)
a short piece of writing, especially on a religious or political subject, that is intended to influence other people's opinions:
a moral/religious/socialist tract
Have you read John Milton's tracts on divorce?
tract noun [ C ] (LAND)
a large area of land:
The house is surrounded by vast tracts of woodland.
US a measured area of land that is used for a particular purpose, such as building houses or digging for oil:
a 132-acre tract in Irving
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Geography: areas of land in general
- area
- circuit
- country
- curtilage
- dry land
- enclosure
- fiefdom
- interfluve
- interior
- lot
- orography
- parcel
- patch
- plot
- pocket handkerchief
- polder
- region
- swathe
- sweep
- territory
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tract noun [ C ] (TUBE)
a system of connected tubes and organs with a particular function inside the body of a person or an animal :
the urinary/respiratory/digestive tract
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Substances & structures in the body
- abductor
- accessorius
- adductor
- agonist
- amyloid
- atheroma
- caecum
- grey matter
- gyrus
- hallucis
- hilum
- hilus
- lymph vessel
- peptic
- periosteum
- peritoneal
- peritoneum
- phosphatase
- vitreous humour
- xiphoid
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