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[ US /ˈtɹækt/ ]
[ US /ˈtɹækt/ ]
NOUN
- a brief treatise on a subject of interest; published in the form of a booklet
- a system of body parts that together serve some particular purpose
- a bundle of myelinated nerve fibers following a path through the brain
- an extended area of land
How To Use tract In A Sentence
- Elisabeth found herself with a straggle of colonists in a mosquito-ridden, uncleared jungle where sandflies bored into the skin of the feet and the clay soil was so intractable that nothing would grow.
- Frogs and newts have already been attracted to three new natural spring ponds at Abbey Meads School.
- As a book about a nonoperational aircraft, Valkyrie will probably attract only a limited audience within the Air Force community.
- Someone who really wanted to stop unsanctioned immigration would begin here, by busting the small contractors who employ these workers on a contingent basis.
- This proposed procurement is a continuation of an existing contractual agreement for the developed prototype NASA Student Ambassadors Virtual Community (NSAVC) web site. ... Curious Virtual Community Procurement - NASA Watch
- About 10,000 Irish patients contract the superbug each year.
- In July, the project came to a standstill for nine days when workers stopped to oppose the use of non-union contract labour on the site.
- This was physical attraction, sexual temptation, nothing more.
- The digital flux that frames our experience of physical and socio-political realities functions through continuous additions, subtractions, and disappearances.
- I find it hard to work at home because there are too many distractions.
