tracts
tracts is the plural of tract.
Meaning of tract
Noun
tract (plural tracts)
- An area or expanse.
- an unexplored tract of sea
- A series of connected body organs, such as the digestive tract.
- Synonyms:
- system
- A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses.
- A brief treatise or discourse on a subject.
- The church clergy at that writ the best collection of tracts against popery that ever appeared.1731, Jonathan Swift, The Presbyterians Plea of Merit
- A commentator's view or perspective on a subject.
- Continued or protracted duration, length, extent
- improved by tract of time1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
Phrases with tracts
- GI tracts
- vocal tracts
- biliary tracts
- urinary tracts
- digestive tracts
- pyramidal tracts
- iliotibial tracts
- respiratory tracts
- spinoreticular tracts
- Chittagong Hill Tracts
- gastrointestinal tracts
- lower respiratory tracts
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Questions about tracts
- What is tracts the plural of?
- Tracts is the plural of tract.
Words near tracts in the dictionary
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