Tract

Noun

 * 1) An area or expanse of land.
 * 2) A series of connected body organs, as in the digestive tract.
 * 3) A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses.
 * 4) A brief treatise or discourse on a subject of interest.
 * 5) A commentator's view or perspective on a subject.
 * 6) Continued or protracted duration, length, extent
 * 7) * 1843: Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XIV, Henry of Essex
 * Nay, in another case of litigation, the unjust Standard bearer, for his own profit, asserting that the cause belonged not to St. Edmund’s Court, but to his in Lailand Hundred, involved us in travellings and innumerable expenses, vexing the servants of St. Edmund for a long tract of time […]

Related terms

 * tractate noun

Verb

 * 1)  To pursue, follow; to track.
 * 2) * 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
 * Where may that treachour then (said he) be found, / Or by what meanes may I his footing tract?

Adjectives for Tract
inflammable; latent; controversial; much-desired; distributing; uncultivated; wicked; untrodden; considerable; inviting; stifling; dry;  missionary;   irritable;   theologic; marshy; vast; diffusing; humane; alimentary; generous; tender; digestive; adjoining; singular; broad; large; partisan.

Verbs for Tract
claim—; confine—; cultivate—; enlarge—; entitle to—; expand—; explore—; fence in —; grant—; harrow—; limit—; plow—; reclaim—; sow—; stake out—; till—; work —; —bears; —flourishes; —fructifies; — ranges; —thrives.

Thesaurus
acreage, amplitude, area, article, assembly-line housing, belt, billeting, block, booklet, breadth, brochure, causerie, chapbook, circular, clearing, clos, close, comic book, continuum, corn field, critique, croft, cultivated land, descant, dimension, discourse, discussion, disquisition, dissertation, district, domiciliation, doss, emptiness, empty space, enclave, essay, etude, examination, excursus, expanse, expansion, exposition, extension, extent, feature, field, first approach, folder, footstep, forty, galactic space, hayfield, homily, hospitality, housing, housing bill, housing development, housing problem, infinite space, interstellar space, introductory study, kraal, leaflet, living quarters, lodging, lodgment, lot, lower-income housing, lucubration, measure, memoir, monograph, morceau, note, nothingness, outer space, outline, paddy, pale, pamphlet, pandect, paper, paragraph, parcel, parcel of land, part, patch, piece, piece of land, plat, plot, plot of ground, portion, preliminary study, prolegomenon, proportion, quad, quadrangle, quarter, quartering, real estate, region, research paper, rice paddy, screed, section, sector, sermon, sketch, slum clearance, space, spatial extension, special article, sphere, spoor, spread, square, step, stretch, study, subdivision, superficial extension, surface, survey, term paper, territory, theme, thesis, track, tractate, transient lodging, treatise, treatment, urban renewal, vestige, void, volume, wheat field, zone

Etymology 2
From the participle stem of trahere:.

Noun

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