| TRACT | • tract n. An area or expanse. • tract n. (Anatomy) A series of connected body organs, such as the digestive tract. • tract n. A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses. |
| ATTRACT | • attract v. (Transitive) To pull toward without touching. • attract v. (Transitive) To draw by moral, emotional or sexual influence; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention… • attract v. (Transitive) To incur. |
| DETRACT | • detract v. (Intransitive) To take away; to withdraw or remove. • detract v. (Transitive) To take credit or reputation from; to defame or decry. • DETRACT v. to take away. |
| EXTRACT | • extract n. Something that is extracted or drawn out. • extract n. A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation. • extract n. A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential… |
| RETRACT | • retract v. (Transitive). • retract v. (Intransitive) To draw back; to draw up; to withdraw. • retract n. An act of retracting or withdrawing (A mistake, a statement, etc.); a retraction. |
| TETRACT | • tetract adj. Tetractinal; having four rays. • tetract n. An organism having four rays. • TETRACT n. a sponge spicule, also TETRAXON. |
| ABSTRACT | • abstract n. An abridgement or summary of a longer publication. • abstract n. Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items. • abstract n. An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract. |
| CONTRACT | • contract n. An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or… • contract n. (Law) An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at… • contract n. (Law) The document containing such an agreement. |
| DISTRACT | • distract v. (Transitive) To divert the attention of. • distract v. (Transitive) To make crazy or insane; to drive to distraction. • distract adj. (Obsolete) Separated; drawn asunder. |
| PROTRACT | • protract v. To draw out; to extend, especially in duration. • protract v. To use a protractor. • protract v. (Surveying) To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot. |
| SUBTRACT | • subtract v. (Transitive, arithmetic) To remove or reduce; especially to reduce a quantity or number. • SUBTRACT v. to take away, also SUBSTRACT. |
| SUBSTRACT | • substract v. (Obsolete) To subtract. • SUBSTRACT v. to subtract; to withdraw, also SUBTRACT. |
| NONABSTRACT | • nonabstract adj. Not abstract. • NONABSTRACT adj. not abstract. |
| NONCONTRACT | • noncontract adj. Not of, pertaining to, or operating under a contract. • NONCONTRACT adj. not employed by contract. |
| PRECONTRACT | • precontract n. (Law) A contract preceding another, especially a contract of marriage which, according to the ancient… • precontract v. To contract prior to another process. • precontract v. To make a previous contract. |
| SUBCONTRACT | • subcontract v. (Transitive, intransitive) To contract out portions of a larger contracted project. • subcontract n. A portion of a contracted project that is contracted out in turn. • SUBCONTRACT n. a contract between a party to an original contract and a third party. |
| FLUIDEXTRACT | • fluidextract n. Dated form of fluid extract. • FLUIDEXTRACT n. an alcohol preparation of a plant-derived drug containing the active constituents of one gram of the dry drug in each milliliter. |
| OVERABSTRACT | • overabstract adj. Excessively abstract. • overabstract v. To abstract excessively. • OVERABSTRACT adj. excessively abstract. |
| SEMIABSTRACT | • semiabstract adj. (Art) Not entirely abstract; between abstract and concrete. • SEMIABSTRACT adj. having subject matter that is easily recognizable although the form is stylized. |