Word Meanings - TRACT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A written discourse or dissertation, generally of short extent; a short treatise, especially on practical religion. The church clergy at that writ the best collection of tracts against popery that ever appeared. Swift. Tracts for the Times. See

Additional info about word: TRACT

A written discourse or dissertation, generally of short extent; a short treatise, especially on practical religion. The church clergy at that writ the best collection of tracts against popery that ever appeared. Swift. Tracts for the Times. See Tractarian.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TRACT)

• Abridge
• Abbreviate
• diminish
• shorten
• lessen
• curtail
• restrict
• tract
• condense
• epitomize
• compress
• Province
• Tract
• region
• department
• section
• sphere
• domain
• territory
• Treatise
• essay
• paper
• pamphlet
• disquisition
• brochure
• dissertation
• tractate
• monograph
• article

Related words: (words related to TRACT)

• DISQUISITION
  A formal or systematic inquiry into, or discussion of, any subject; a full examination or investigation of a matter, with the arguments and facts bearing upon it; elaborate essay; dissertation. For accurate research or grave disquisition he was
• DIMINISH
  To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
• DISQUISITIONARY
  Pertaining to disquisition; disquisitional.
• DISSERTATIONAL
  Relating to dissertations; resembling a dissertation.
• EPITOMIZER
  An epitomist. Burton.
• MONOGRAPHIST
  One who writes a monograph.
• SECTIONALITY
  The state or quality of being sectional; sectionalism.
• ESSAYER
  One who essays. Addison.
• TRACTORATION
  See PERKINISM
• RESTRICT
  Restricted.
• TRACTITE
  A Tractarian.
• SECTIONALIZE
  To divide according to gepgraphical sections or local interests. The principal results of the struggle were to sectionalize parties. Nicilay & Hay .
• DEPARTMENT
  1. Act of departing; departure. Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's
• DIMINISHER
  One who, or that which, diminishes anything. Clerke .
• LESSENER
  One who, or that which, lessens. His wife . . . is the lessener of his pain, and the augmenter of his pleasure. J. Rogers .
• ESSAY
  A composition treating of any particular subject; -- usually shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise; as, an essay on the life and writings of Homer; an essay on fossils, or on commerce. 3. An assay. See Assay, n.
• SECTIONALISM
  A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national.
• DEPARTMENTAL
  Pertaining to a department or division. Burke.
• SECTIONIZE
  To form into sections.
• PAMPHLETEER
  A writer of pamphlets; a scribbler. Dryden. Macaulay.
• INTRACTABILITY
  The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
• REDIMINISH
  To diminish again.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• UNSPHERE
  To remove, as a planet, from its sphere or orb. Shak.
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• AEROSPHERE
  The atmosphere.
• DETRACTIVE
  1. Tending to detractor draw. 2. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative.
• COSMOSPHERE
  An apparattus for showing the position of the earth, at any given time, with respect to the fixed stars. It consist of a hollow glass globe, on which are depicted the stars and constellations, and within which is a terrestrial globe.
• PHOTIC REGION
  The uppermost zone of the sea, which receives the most light.
• INCOMPRESSIBLE
  Not compressible; incapable of being reduced by force or pressure into a smaller compass or volume; resisting compression; as, many liquids and solids appear to be almost incompressible. -- In`com*press"i*ble*ness, n.