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Another word for tract

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Noun

  1. A part of the earth's surface

      1. (Idiomatic) A place or field in which one is comfortable or with which one is familiar.
      2. (Idiomatic) A local neighbourhood or region.
      3. A region; a neighborhood.
      1. Any of the numbered sections into which a postal area is divided, as in the ZIP Code system
      2. A section of an area or territory established for a specific purpose, as a section of a city restricted to a particular type of building, enterprise, or activity:
      3. An area or a region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic.
      1. A portion of the earth's surface distinguished from others by some characteristic:
      2. A political district or unit, often with its adjacent lands:
      3. An area of interest or activity; a sphere:
      1. (Nautical) The upper portion of the after side of a ship, usually between the aftermost mast and the stern.
      2. A particular district or section in a city
      3. A region or an area of the earth thought of as falling into such a specific division of the compass.
      1. A community, district, or area, esp. with regard to some characteristic or point of reference
      2. A district or area with distinctive characteristics:
      3. The surrounding area; vicinity:
      1. Position with regard to surrounding objects, landmarks, etc.
      2. The fact or quality of having position in space.
      3. A particular neighborhood, place, or district:
      1. Any region; part of a country, city, etc.
      2. A region or locality marked by a distinguishing feature:
      3. A division of an area, as for administrative purposes.
      1. A continuous band or chain for transferring motion or power or conveying materials from one wheel or shaft to another.
      2. Something resembling a belt, as a number of machine-gun rounds attached together in a strip.
      3. A usually bandlike geographic region that is distinctive in a specific respect. Often used in combination:
      1. The extent of a planar region or of the surface of a solid measured in square units.
      2. A distinct part or section, as of a building, set aside for a specific function:
      3. A surface, especially an open, unoccupied piece of ground:
    See also:

    territory

  2. A piece of land

      1. A secret, usually evil, project or scheme; conspiracy
      2. A small area of ground marked off for some special use
      3. A measured area of land; a lot.
      1. A group or collection; pack; bunch
      2. A quantity or unit of some commodity put up for sale
      3. Something wrapped up or packaged; a package.
      1. A piece of land used for a given purpose:
      2. A number of associated people or things:
      3. An individual of a particular kind or type:
    See also:

    territory

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Another word for tract

Noun
      1. (Physics) A region, volume, or space where a specific, measurable force, as gravity or magnetism, exists
      2. An area or region where business activities are conducted:
      3. A meadow:
      1. A straight section of a racecourse or track, especially the section leading to the finish line.
      2. (Baseball) A series of movements in which a pitcher, standing with the glove side facing home plate, raises both hands to the height of the head and then lowers them to the chest or waist for a short pause before pitching the ball. It is used especially when runners are on base because it gives base runners less time to steal than they have during a full windup.
      3. An action or effort that exceeds someone's normal limits or powers; specif., a dramatic role regarded as beyond an actor's normal range or abilities
      1. An area of the body having natural or arbitrarily assigned boundaries:
      2. A political district or unit, often with its adjacent lands:
      3. A portion of the earth's surface distinguished from others by some characteristic:
      1. A ground plan, as for a building; a diagram.
      2. A secret, usually evil, project or scheme; conspiracy
      3. A small piece of ground, generally used for a specific purpose:
      1. The distance or amount of expansion.
      2. A wide and open extent, as of surface, land, or sky.
      3. A large, open area or unbroken surface; wide extent; great breadth
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Sentence Examples

  • The site is a level oblong tract extending along the Hudson for 7 m.

  • The tract lying to the north-west contains the states of Bikanir, Jaisalmer and Jodhpur.

  • The tract adjoining this long line of lagoons is, like the basin of the Po, a broad expanse of perfectly level alluvial plain, extending from the Adige eastwards to the Carnic Alps, where they approach close to the Adriatic between Aquileia and Trieste, and northwards to the foot of the great chain, which here sweeps round in a semicircle from the neighborhood of Vicenza to that of Aquileia.

  • Parma, one of the finest cities of northern Italy, lies in a fertile tract of the Lombard plain, within view of the Alps and sheltered by the Apennines, 170 ft.

  • He then returned to Bavaria, and his absence bringing him into ill odour at Vienna, he complained of the incompetence of the council of commerce and dedicated a tract on trade (CommercienTractat) to the emperor Leopold.

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