tract
Betekenis (Engels)
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- An area or expanse.
- A series of connected body organs, such as the digestive tract.
- A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses.
- A brief treatise or discourse on a subject.
- A commentator's view or perspective on a subject.
- Continued or protracted duration, length, extent
- 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.
- (obsolete) Continuity or extension of anything.
- (obsolete) Traits; features; lineaments.
- (obsolete) The footprint of a wild animal.
- (obsolete) Track; trace.
- (obsolete) Treatment; exposition.
Concepten
Synoniemen
piece of ground
piece of land
parcel of land
nerve pathway
nerve tract
short essay
tractus
organic structure
territorial division
territorial dominion
monoscience
biological system
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Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/tɹækt/
Etymologie (Engels)
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.
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