名詞

(複數)

1. 地帶.

   an unexplored tract of sea

   一片未探索過的海域。

   • Template:RQ:Milton PL
   • Template:RQ:Addison Italy

     a very high mountain joined to the mainland by a narrow tract of earth

   • Template:RQ:Fuller Worthies

     small tracks of ground

2. （一系列的）道，束，如 (“消化道”)
3. 傳單
4. 短文
   • Template:RQ:Swift The Presbyterians Plea of Merit

     The church clergy at that writ the best collection of tracts against popery that ever appeared.

5. 評論的看法，觀點
6. 持續的時間、長度、程度
   • Template:RQ:Milton PL
   • 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 […]

7. 〈旧〉 延續

   the tract of speech

   話外之音

8. 〈旧〉 特點，特征
   • Template:RQ:Bacon Of Simulation and Dissimulation

     The discovery of a man's self by the tracts of his countenance is a great weakness.

9. 〈旧〉 野生動物的足跡
10. 〈旧〉 蹤跡
    • Template:RQ:Browne Errors

      Efface all tract of its traduction.

    • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens

      But flies an eagle flight, bold, and forth on, / Leaving no tract behind.

11. 〈旧〉 解釋，說明
    • 1613, William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, Act I, Scene I

      The tract of every thing Would, by a good discourser, lose some life Which action's self was tongue to.

動詞

(第三人稱單數簡單現在時，現在分詞，一般過去時及過去分詞)

1. 〈旧〉 追隨，跟隨，追蹤
   • 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?

2. 〈旧〉 拖延

派生詞