An area or expanse.
Used in a Sentence
tracts
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for tracts.
Editorial note
And HN generally eschews political tracts, not because we disagree with them politically, but because they're not what the site is for.
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Parts of speech1
Quick take
An area or expanse.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of tracts gathered in one view.
A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses.
A brief treatise or discourse on a subject.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for tracts.
noun
An area or expanse.
noun
A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses.
noun
A brief treatise or discourse on a subject.
noun
Continued or protracted duration, length, extent
Example sentences
And HN generally eschews political tracts, not because we disagree with them politically, but because they're not what the site is for.
That is, for tracts of text that need to be quoted verbatim, including colons or [brackets] or similar?
What on earth makes you think that brains, lungs, intestinal tracts, and bones are unappetizing to dogs?
Large tracts of land, including former sugar plantations are in the hands of a few elite families.
And build-out restrictions, preventing upstart competitors from stealing away lucrative tracts of incumbants' service areas, are already stifling competition.
Believing the best, tested results of experiments (science) is not superior to random religious tracts written thousands of years ago?
India, inexplicably, chose not to annex the Chittagong Hill Tracts (East Bengal), which were majority Hindu but awarded to East Pakistan.
Those things blow up quite regularly and spread their debris over vast tracts of land.
By the same token, I do think people tend to underestimate the density of 3-story tracts in SF.
In the 19th Century, both nations had vast tracts of land relatively undeveloped...
Argentina transferred its land in vast tracts to wealthy landowners and created essentially a division between the wealthy elites and the landless peasant!
If they want to fix the problem they'd need large tracts of very high grade housing rented non-profit, (never sold) on government land.
Quote examples
After mods "blacked out" vast tracts of Reddit, he has made terse partial apologies.
From the article you link to: "Overall, blacks were killed at three times the rate of whites or other minorities when adjusting by the population of the census tracts where the shootings occurred."
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use tracts in a sentence?
And HN generally eschews political tracts, not because we disagree with them politically, but because they're not what the site is for.
What does tracts mean?
An area or expanse.
What part of speech is tracts?
tracts is commonly used as noun.